Events
Webinar | Flowering Tree Phenology from the Ground and Space—A Special Trees Around the Globe Student Research Campaign Webinar
Event Time: 4:00 pm UTC - 5:00 pm UTC
Location: Online
Flower traits such as color rely on pigments that determine
their color and contribute to the spectral patterns that flowering
plants exhibit. However, remote sensing of plant phenology has almost
exclusively focused on studying leafing and greenness dynamics,
dismissing flowering, the reproductive phase of approximately 90% of
all known plant species. In this special Trees Around the Globe
student research campaign webinar, our featured speaker, Dr. Yoseline
Angel, will discuss a novel scalable method—focusing on ground to
satellite observations—that she developed with her team. The method
was inspired by how pollinators perceive flowers through their
ultraviolet, blue, green, and red photoreceptors (~300–800 nm).
Following the
featured science talk, we will discuss Dr. Angel’s request of GLOBE
participants to use the GLOBE Observer Land Cover and Trees tools to
find and document Tabebuia trees in Mexico through Central America and
parts of western South America.
Tabebuia is a genus of flowering plants. The ones of major interest to Dr. Angel and her team are:
- Guayacan amarillo (Central and South America)
- Arbol de la primavera (Mexico)
- Cañaguate (Colombia)
- Araguaney (Venezuela)
-
Roble amarillo (South America)
Events origin: GLOBE Implementation Office