9th Bi-Annual Circumpolar Remote Sensing Symposium

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Participant in the 2007/2008 International Polar Year

The 9th Bi-Annual Circumpolar
Remote Sensing Symposium
May 15-19, 2006

Program

15 May 06 Monday - DAY 1
16:00	Registration Desk Open
17:00	Icebreaker
20:00	End of First Day
16 May 06 Tuesday - DAY 2
08:30	Registration Desk Open
09:20	Welcome/Introduction - Carl Markon
09:30	Jay Feuquay - Opening Address - The Role of USGS in Providing Long Term Remote Sensing Data: Past, Present, Future [Presentation - PDF file 1.06 MB]
09:50	Dr. Josefino Comiso - Guest Speaker - Trends in Surface Temperature, Sea Ice, and Pigment Concentration in the Arctic [Presentation - Zip file 74.67 MB]
10:25	Break
Session 1 - International Polar Year
10:50	Edwin (Ed) Pfeifer - Effects of Climate Change, Glacial Retreat, and Snowfield Loss on Habitat Condition and the Affect on Wild Sheep Populations and Distribution in Polar and High Mountain Ecosystems in Alaska and Mid-Asia: A Comparative Study [Presentation - PDF file 261 kb]
11:15	Daniel Clavet - GeoNorth 2007: First International Circumpolar Conference on Geospatial Sciences and Applications [Presentation - PDF file 985 kb]
11:40	Madeleine Griselin - Remote and In-Situ Sensing to Survey a Glacier Basin: Protocole of Setting Up and First Results of an IPY Project [Presentation - PDF file 9.42 MB]
12:05	Lunch
13:10	Jerry Mullins - USGS Science at the Poles in the International Polar Year [Presentation - Pdf file 12.33 MB]
13:35	Helmut Epp - Canadian Preparations for the International Polar Year 2007-2008 [Presentation - PDF file 4.76 MB]
15:30	Self-Guided Tour of Seward
18:00	Guided Tour of the Alaska SeaLife Center
19:00	Hors d'oeuvres/No host bar at the SeaLife Center (Underwater Viewing Room)
20:00	Banquet at the Alaska SeaLife Center (Rugged Coast Room)
22:00	End of Second Day
17 May 06 Wednesday - DAY 3
08:30	Registration Desk Open
08:50	Welcome/Introduction
Session 2 - Snow, Ice, and Cryosphere Studies 1
09:00	Hans Koren - Snow Wetness Estimation from MODIS Images [Presentation - PDF file 817 kb]
09:25	Franz Meyer - Topography and Displacement of Polar Glaciers from Multi-Temporal SAR Interferograms: Potentials and Error Analysis [Presentation - Powerpoint file 20.00 MB]
09:50	Robert Shuchman - Remote Sensing of the Bering Glacier Region [Presentation - PDF file 2.60 MB]
10:15	Break
Session 3 - Snow, Ice, and Cryosphere Studies 2
10:40	W. Gareth Rees - Mass Balance and Dynamics of a Valley Glacier measured by High-resolution LiDAR [Presentation - PDF file 2.92 MB]
11:05	Mark Tschudi - Recent Arctic Summer Sea Ice Albedo Trend and its Relationship to Sea Ice Conditions [Presentation - PDF file 4.63 MB]
11:30	David Douglas - Indication of an Unusual Change in the Arctic's Late-summer Sea Ice Thickness-volume Relationship [Presentation - PDF file 1.60 MB]
11:55	Lunch
Session 4 - Snow, Ice, and Cryosphere Studies 3
13:10	Keith Echelmeyer - Ongoing Changes of Glaciers in Northwestern North America Substitution - Peter Webley - Dispersion Modeling of Volcanic Ash - [Presentation - Zip file 67.10 MB]
13:35	Bruce Molnia - The Alaska Chapter of the Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World [Presentation - PDF file 17.02 MB]
14:00
14:25	Break
Session 5 - Climate and the Environment
14:50	Martha Raynolds - Comparison of Arctic Tundra Bioclimate Subzones and AVHRR Surface Temperature and Relationship to NDVI [Presentation - PDF file 3.07 MB]
15:15	Michael Ferrari - Is Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover and Early Indicator of Summertime Temperatures? Remote Sensing Applications and the Implications for US Agriculture [Presentation - PDF file 3.33 MB]
15:40	Daniel Joly - Contribution of Environment Factors to the Temperature Distribution According to Different Resolution Levels: Test on the Forefield of the Loven Glaciers (Svalbard) [Presentation - PDF file 1.28 MB]
16:05	Free Time/Dinner on your own
19:30	Poster Session Patrick Cotter - Mapping and Characterization of Recurring Spring Leads in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, Alaska David Leverington - Discrimination of Surface Lithologies of eastern Melville Island, Canadian High Arctic: Ongoing Investigations involving TM and Hyperion Data Sets Lisa Ballagh - National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Presents the State of the Cryosphere Fiona Danks - Depicting the Inscrutable: Satellite-base Mapping of a Spatially Complex Region of northern European Russia [JPG of poster 576 kb] Kristin Papp - Linking Remotely-sensed Permafrost Features fo Subsurface Structure, Gas Geochemistry and Gas Hydrates Debbie Dean - Archived Maps and Photography of the Western Arctic Nancy French - Improving the Prediction of Wildfire Potential in Boreal Alaska with Satellite Imaging Radar Cheryl Hallam - A Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA)
20:00
22:00	End of Third Day
18 May 06 Thursday - DAY 4
08:30	Registration Desk Open
08:50	Welcome/Introduction
Session 6 - Environmental Monitoring 1
09:00	De Anne Stevens - Softcopy Photogrammetry: Assessment for GIS-based Geologic Mapping Applications [Presentations - PDF file 6.08 MB]
09:25	Scott Guyer - The Impact and Recovery of Ice Roads and Ice Pads on Tundra Ecosystems, National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska (NPRA-A) [Presentation - PDF file 6.92 MB]
09:50	Benjamin Jones - Past, Present, and Future Landscape Change: Combining Inupiaq Knowledge and Western Science
10:15	Break
Session 7 - Environmental Monitoring 2
10:40	M.A. Montes-Hugo - Variability in Phytoplankton Size-structure between the Antarctic Polar Front and the Pal-LTER Region: Is there a Connection? [Presentation - PDF file 558 kb]
11:05	Daniel Clavet - Mapping Canada's North: An Integrated Approach [Presentation - PDF file 12.62 MB]
11:30	Peter Webley - The Role of Remote Sensing in Monitoring Volcanoes in Polar Regions: Case Study of the 2006 Eruption of Augustine Volcano [Presentation - Powerpoint file - 28.32 MB]
11:55	Lunch
Session 8 - Arctic Vegetation Inventory, Monitoring and Analysis 1
13:10	Janne Heiskanen - An Assessment of Multiangular MISR Data for Tree Cover and Height Mapping in the Tundra-Taiga Transition Zone [Presentation - PDf file 2.59 MB]
13:35	W. Gareth Rees - Derivation and Assessment of Vegetation Maps for Reindeer Pasture Analysis in Arctic European Russia [Presentation - PDF file 5.73 MB]
14:00	Bernt Johansen - Vegetation Mapping of Northern Fennoscandia including the Kola Peninsula, Using Landsat TM/ETM+ Data [Presentation - PDF file 8.83 MB]
14:25	Break
Session 9 - Arctic Vegetation Inventory, Monitoring and Analysis 2
14:50	Stein Rune Karlsen - NDVI - Characteristics of Landscape Types in the Arctic/Alpine-Boreal Transition Area in northern Fennoscandia [Presentation - PDF file 8.83 MB]
15:15	W. Gareth Rees - Characterization of Arctic Treelines by LiDAR and Multispectral Imagery [Presentation - PDF file 3.04 MB]
15:40	Scott Guyer - Mapping Alaska's Land: Using Landsat with Field Data to create Mid-resolution Earth Cover Maps for Alaska [Presentation - PDF file 6.89 MB]
18:00	BBQ Dinner
22:00	End of Fourth Day
19 May 06 Friday - DAY 5
08:30	Registration Desk Open
08:50	Welcome/Introduction
Session 10 - Databases/Data Processing/GIS
09:00	Yves Crevier - RADARSAT Polar Science Gateway [Presentation - PDF file 3.05 MB]
09:25	Ken Dean - Develoment and Implementation of a Satellite-Monitoring Database System [Presentation - PDF file 3.42 MB]
09:50	Cheryl Hallam - A U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Antarctic Portal for the International Polar Year (IPY) [Presentation - PDF file 10.90 MB]
10:15	Break
Session 11 - Panel Discussion: Recommendations for Future Sensors for Boreal and Polar Remote Sensing
10:40	Gareth Rees, Helmut Epp, Ken Dean, Franz Meyer
11:05
11:30
11:55	Lunch
	End of Conference

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