美国北卡罗来那大学宋从和教授来华东师范大学作校级学术报告（二）

作者：天童国家站  更新时间：2014-06-08

    2014年6月8日，来自美国北卡罗来那大学宋从和教授受邀来到华东师范大学闵行校区作了“Mapping Plant Productivity with Optical Remote Sensing: Theory and Practice”的学术报告。整场报告精彩纷呈，师生们也参与其中，以座谈会的形式进行了讨论和交流，过程轻松愉快，学术气氛浓厚。报告会开拓了师生的视野，达到了增进学术交流的目的。

报告人简介：

    宋从和教授2000年毕业于波士顿大学地理系，获博士学位，现任美国北卡罗来那大学教堂山分校(the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)地理系教授，副系主任。主要从事植被遥感和生态系统建模方面的研究工作，研究内容涉及森林生态系统碳循环、植被演替及森林生态系统生物物理参数的定量遥感、地理信息系统应用和生态系统过程模型模拟等。目前主持美国国家自然科学基金、NASA，USDA林务局等项目多项。2006年获美国宇航局(NASA)的青年基金奖(New Investigator’s Program Award)；2005-2006 年期间被哈佛大学(Harvard University)聘任为查尔斯-博勒德学者(Charles Bullard Fellow)。2013-2014曾任ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing杂志副主编。在Nature、Remote Sensing of Environment、Journal of Geophysical Ressearch等刊物发表学术论文40多篇，论文被SCI 上的杂志他引1186 次，其中单篇最高他引490多次，为ESI (Essential Science Indicators) 高被引用论文。

报告简介：

    Plant productivity is a key term in global carbon cycle. Remote sensing is perhaps the only viable option that can map plant productivity repeatedly in a timely manner. In this talk, I will first review the basic theory of plant productivity, and its linkages with optical remote sensing. Then I will present some results of using a light-use-efficiency model in the Yangtze River Basin for the first decade of the 21st century. The study found that both land-cover/land-use change and climate variability had strong impacts on plant productivity. Due to China's reforestation and natural forest conservation efforts, plant productivity in the Yangtze River Basin increased significantly during the period, while climate change generally had negative impact, offsetting a significant proportion of the positive effect from the increase in forest cover. Therefore, accurate understanding of plant production over a large area over a significant period of time needs to account both factors.