Land Cover Category

List of Active NEESPI Projects:

1. The role of environmental, socioeconomic, institutional, and land-cover/ land-use change factors to explain the pattern and drivers of anthropogenic fires in post-Soviet Eastern Europe: A case study comparison of Belarus, European Russia, and Lithuania.
   
2. 200 years of land use and land cover changes and their driving forces in the Carpathian Basin.
   
3. Landscape Dynamics and Landscape Potential for CO2-sequestration in Central Asia- Case study from Kazakhstan.
   
4. Contribution to studies of LCLUC in Northern Eurasia.
   
5. Contribution to studies of LCLUC in Northern Eurasia.
   
6. Remote Sensing of Forest Structure across Multiple Scales from Leaves to Canopies and Stands.
   
7. The Influence of Changing Forestry Practices on the Effects of Wildfire and on Interactions between Fire and Changing Climate in central Siberia.
   
8. Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes in Temperate Forests of European Russia: The Past, the Current, and the Future.
9. Remote sensing of vegetation based on spectrally invariant structure parameters (SPRINTER).
10. Assessing forest-tundra transition zone in the Northern Hemisphere with multisensor satellite data.
11. Development of tools for satellite ecological monitoring of Siberia and Far East on the basis of new informational and telecommunicational methods and technologies.
12. Siberian Earth System Science Cluster – SIB-ESS-C.
13. Post-socialist land use and land cover change in the Carpathians. Assessing the importance of socioeconomic and political factors on landscape dynamics and biodiversity.
14. Boreal zone forest type and structure from EOS data sets.
15. Wildfire, Ecosystems, and Climate: Examining the relationships between weather, extreme fire events, and fire-induced land -cover change in the changing climate of Siberia.
16. Land cover land use change effects on surface water quality: Integrated MODIS and SeaWIFS assessment of the Dneiper and Don River basins and their reservoirs.
17. Role of land cover and land use change in hydrology of Eurasian Pan-Arctic.
18. Northern Eurasia Landcover Dynamics Analysis (NELDA): Monitoring and validating the distribution and change in land cover across Northern Eurasia.
19. Contributions of Changes in Land Use/Land Cover, Water Use, and Climate to the Hydrological Cycle Across the Central Asian States.
20. Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics of China in Support of GOFC/GOLD and NEESPI Sciences.
21. Development of an Integrated System of Ground-, Air- and Space-Based Observations of Biomass Burning in Northern Eurasia.
22. Post-USSR land cover change in Eastern Europe: socioeconomic forcings, effects on biodiversity, and future scenarios.

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Siberian Earth System Science Cluster – SIB-ESS-C.

Principal Investigators: Christiane Schmullius (c.schmullius@uni-jena.de) and Roman Gerlach (roman.gerlach@uni-jena.de), Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany
Co-Investigators: Heiko Balzter (hbal@ceh.ac.uk), NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) and Climate and Land Surface Systems Interaction Centre (CLASSIC), Monks Wood, UK
Sergey Bartalev (bartalev@d902.iki.rssi.ru), Boreal Ecosystems Monitoring Laboratory, Space Research Institute (IKI), Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
Thuy Le Toan (Thuy.Letoan@cesbio.cnes.fr), Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère (CESBIO), CNES-CNRS-Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Wolfgang Lucht (wolfgang.lucht@pik-potsdam.de), Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Biosphere Research Group, Potsdam, Germany
Sten Nilsson (nilsson@iiasa.ac.at) and Anatoly Shvidenko (shvidenk@iiasa.ac.at), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
Evgeni Vaganov (eavaganov@forest.akadem.ru), Sukachev Forest Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Wolfgang Wagner (ww@ipf.tuwien.ac.at),  Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Post-socialist land use and land cover change in the Carpathians. Assessing the importance of socioeconomic and political factors on landscape dynamics and biodiversity.

Principal Investigator: Patrick Hostert (patrick.hostert@geo.hu-berlin.de), Humboldt Universität Berlin, Germany
Collaborators: Bogdan Zagajewski, Warsaw University, Poland
Volker Radeloff, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Kajetan Perzanowski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Daniel Müller, Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany

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Boreal zone forest type and structure from EOS data sets.

Principal Investigator: Jon Ranson (Jon.Ranson@nasa.gov), Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Co-Investigators: Daniel S. Kimes, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Guoqing Sun, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
Vyacheslav Kharuk, V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

Application of space-based technologies and models to address land-cover/land-use change problems on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia.

Principal Investigator: Donald Walker (ffdaw@uaf.edu), University of Alaska -Fairbanks, USA
Co-Investigators: Gari Kofinas, Uma Bhatt, and Vladimir Romanovsky, all University of Alaska -Fairbanks, USA
Josefino Comiso, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Howard Epstein, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Collaborators: Bruce Forbes, Arctic Center, Rovaniemi, Finland
Scientists from the Earth Cryosphere Institute SB RAS, Moscow, Russia

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Wildfire, Ecosystems, and Climate: Examining the relationships between weather, extreme fire events, and fire-induced land -cover change in the changing climate of Siberia.

Principal Investigator: Amber Soja (a.j.soja@larc.nasa.gov), NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
Co-Investigators: David Westberg and Paul Stackhouse both with NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
Anatoly Sukhinin, Galina Ivanova, Elena Parfenova, and Nadezhda Tsebakova, all at V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Sib. Branch RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia;
Hank Shugart, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

Land cover land use change effects on surface water quality: Integrated MODIS and SeaWIFS assessment of the Dneiper and Don River basins and their reservoirs.

Principal Investigator: Anatoly Gitelson (gitelson@calmit.unl.edu), University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA
Co-Investigator: Geoffrey M. Henebry, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA
Collaborators: Ludmila Kosmenko and Boris Suhorukov, Hydro-chemical Institute, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Michael Popov and Ludmila Serenko, Centre for Aerospace Research of the Earth, Institute of Geosciences UNAS, Kiev, Ukraine
Mykola Zalogin, Institute of Sustainable Development of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

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Role of land cover and land use change in hydrology of Eurasian Pan-Arctic.

Principal Investigator: Charles Vorosmarty (Charles.Vorosmarty@unh.edu), University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
Co-Investigators: George Hurtt, Xianming Xiao, Richard Lammers, and Alexander Shiklomanov, all at University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
Collaborator: Igor Shiklomanov, State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia

Northern Eurasia Landcover Dynamics Analysis (NELDA): Monitoring and validating the distribution and change in land cover across Northern Eurasia.

Principal Investigator: Olga N. Krankina (olga.krankina@oregonstate.edu), Oregon State University, USA
Co-Investigators: Jeffrey Morrisette and Jeffrey Masek, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Guoqing Sun and Ivan Csiszar, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
Warren Cohen, USDA Forest Service
Marc Friedl and Curtis Woodcock, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Collaborators: Evgeney Loupian, Dmitry Ershov, Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia
Evgeny Gordov, Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems, Tomsk, Russia
Natalia Vandysheva and Alexander Maslov, Center for Development of Information Technologies, Moscow, Russia
Vladimir V. Elsakov, Komi Science Center, Institute of Biology, Syktyvkar, Russia Vladimir Kharuk, V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Mykola Zalogin, Institute of Sustainable Development of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

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Contributions of Changes in Land Use/Land Cover, Water Use, and Climate to the Hydrological Cycle Across the Central Asian States.

Principal Investigator: Charles Vörösmarty (charles.vorosmarty@unh.edu), Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, USA
Co-Investigators: Richard Lammers, Alexander Shiklomanov, Ellen Douglas, and Xiangming Xiao,University of New Hampshire, USA
Collaborators: Igor Shiklomanov State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Victor Dukhovny, Scientific-Information Center of the Interstate Coordination Water Commission of the Central Asia, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Malik Burlibaev, Kazakhstan Research Institute for Monitoring and Climate, Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan

Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics of China in Support of GOFC/GOLD and NEESPI Sciences.

Principal Investigator: Jiaguo Qi (qi@msu.edu), Michigan State University, USA
Co-Investigators: Changsheng Li, University of New Hampshire, USA
Cuizhen Wang, University of Missouri - Columbia, USA
Guoqing Sun, University of Maryland, USA
Jiyuan Liu, Institute of Geographic Information and Natural
Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Drs. Joseph Messina, Mark Cochrane, Runsheng Yin, USA
Peng Gong, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Shuguang Liu, EROS Data Center, USA
Shuming Bao, University of Michigan, USA
Wei Gao, Colorado State University, USA
William Salas, Applied Geosolutions, LLC, USA
Xiangming Xiao, University of New Hampshire, USA
Yongyun Yin, British Columbia, Canada
Collaborators: Drs. Genian Lv and Wanchang Zhang, Nanjing University, China
Guoping Lei, Northeast Agricultural University, China
Jiaping Wu, Zhejiang University, China
Jiemin Wang, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Institute, China
Jintao Xu, Institute of Geographic Information and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Lin Zheng, Jiangxi Normal University, China
Drs. Qingdong Shi and Xiaoling Pan, Xinjiang University, China
Drs. Yanhua Bao and Zhigang Li, Heilongjiang Bureau of Survey and Mapping, China
Ya-Qiu Jin, Fudan University, China
Zhongdong Feng, Lanzhou University, China

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Development of an Integrated System of Ground-, Air- and Space-Based Observations of Biomass Burning in Northern Eurasia.

Principal Investigator: Ivan Csiszar (icsiszar@hermes.geog.umd.edu), University of Maryland, USA
Co-Investigators: Tatiana Loboda, University of Maryland, Department of Geography, USA
Collaborators: Dmitry Ershov, Center of Forest Ecology and Productivity, Moscow, Russia
Alexey Mazurov, Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia
Vladimir Belov, Institute for Atmospheric Optics, Tomsk, Russia
Anatoly Sukhinin, Sukachev Forest Institute, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Sergei Tashchilin, Institute for Solar and Terrestrial Physics, Irkutsk, Russia

Post-USSR land cover change in Eastern Europe: socioeconomic forcings, effects on biodiversity, and future scenarios.

Principal Investigator: Volker C. Radeloff (radeloff@wisc.edu), University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Collaborators: Leonid Baskin, RAS Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russia
Linas Balciaukas, Institute of Ecology, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Anna Lushchekina, Russian Man and Biosphere Committee and RAS Severtsov
Institute for Ecology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Patrick Hostert, Humboldt University, Germany
Kajetan Perzanowski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Development of tools for satellite ecological monitoring of Siberia and Far East on the basis of new informational and telecommunicational methods and technologies     Member of SIRS Mega-project.

Principal Investigators: Vladimir V. Shaidurov (shidurov@icm.krasn.ru), Institute of Computational Modeling SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Vyacheslav I. Kharuk (kharuk@ksc.krasn.ru), RAS Institute of Forest Studies, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

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Assessing forest-tundra transition zone in the Northern Hemisphere with multisensor satellite data.

Principal Investigator: K. Jon Ranson (jon.ranson@nasa.gov), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Co-Investigators: Ross F. Nelson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Guoqing Sun, Dept. of Geography, University of Maryland-College Park, Maryland, USA
Hank Margolis, Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Vyacheslav I. Kharuk, RAS Sukachev Institute of Forest, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

Remote sensing of vegetation based on spectrally invariant structure parameters (SPRINTER).

Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes in Temperate Forests of European Russia: The Past, the Current, and the Future.

The Influence of Changing Forestry Practices on the Effects of Wildfire and on Interactions between Fire and Changing Climate in central Siberia.

Remote Sensing of Forest Structure across Multiple Scales from Leaves to Canopies and Stands.
Principal Investigator: Yuri Knyazikhin (jknjazi@crsa.bu.edu), Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts,USA
Collaborator: Pauline Stenberg (pauline.stenberg@helsinki.fi), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Contribution to studies of LCLUC in Northern Eurasia.

Landscape Dynamics and Landscape Potential for CO2-sequestration in Central Asia- Case study from Kazakhstan.

200 years of land use and land cover changes and their driving forces in the Carpathian Basin.

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