Forest Structure, Biomass and Carbon Storage
Land Cover Land Use Change
Mangroves and Coastal Wetlands
SAR and InSAR
Synthetic Aperture Radar and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar
LiDAR remote sensing of Forests
EcoSAR P-band Digital Beamforming Polarimetric Interferometric SAR instrument to measure Ecosystem Structure and Biomass
Total Carbon Estimation in African Mangroves and Coastal Wetlands in Preparation for REDD and Blue Carbon Credits
GEDI Lidar- the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Initiative
NASA ESA AfriSAR Project
USAID/US Forest Service/NASA SilvaCarbon Bangladesh
From Arboreal to Benthic Communities: the ABCs of Land to Ocean Biodiversity Observations
The Arboreal to Benthic Communities (ABC) Land to Ocean Biodiversity Observations Team (LOBO) study seeks to scope the design of an interdisciplinary project to study the biodiversity, habitat connectivity, and biogeochemical processes in the interconnected arboreal, water column, and benthic habitats of a major coastal ecosystem of national importance. The system includes major agricultural lands of the South Florida peninsula, growing urban environments, the Everglades, Florida Bay, and the Florida Keys. The study would link NASA high-altitude airborne campaigns, NASA satellite data, and ongoing in situ work conducted by the NASA/NOAA Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON) and the NSF Florida Coastal Everglades Long Term Ecological Research Network (FCE LTER) programs.
The arboreal-to-benthic community study permits an ecosystem-wide assessment of habitat and organism diversity, productivity, and the drivers of change including connectivity. It also allows investigation of the feedbacks between upstream (terrestrial and fresh water) and downstream (marine) biological, ecological, and environmental factors. Experimenting with remote sensing science to observe biodiversity across the land-ocean boundary is a prerequisite to the design of science traceability requirements and algorithms for coastal ecology suborbital and orbital missions.
The terrestrial-freshwater-marine ecosystem continuum requires innovation in observation to span a broad spectral and dynamic range in reflectance, nadir- and off-nadir observations strategies to minimize background signals from substrate and sunglint, and bidirectional reflectance function. The scoping study will help define signal to noise, vicarious calibration, atmospheric correction, turbid and shallow-water bio-optical algorithm requirements, and wetland observation and implementation strategies for different flooding and seasonal conditions. The study will be guided by the need to detect changes in phenology and in biogeochemical cycles that depend on local processes and on land-ocean connectivity. The scoping study will include guidance for developing and implementing applications for conservation biology and sustainable use of resources.
1/2010
-
Present
Research Physical Scientist
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, MD
Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia
B.A. Biology, University of Virginia
American Geophysical Union ,
2006
-
Present
2011 Presidential Early Career Award in Sciences and Engineering (PECASE)
09/01/2016 -
08/31/2019
NASA Carbon Monitoring System,
NASA
Future Mission Fusion for Improving Aboveground Biomass Estimation in High Biomass Forests
;
Principal Investigator
10/01/2014 -
09/30/2017
Carbon Monitoring System,
NASA, NASA NRA #: NNH14ZDA001N-CMS
Total Carbon Estimation in African Mangroves and Coastal Wetlands in preparation for REDD and Blue Carbon Credits
;
Principal Investigator
03/10/2011 -
03/10/2014
Instrument Incubator Program,
NASA ESTO
EcoSAR, the first P-band Digital Beamforming Interferometric SAR Instrument to measure Ecosystem Structure, Biomass and Water.
;
Principal Investigator
01/01/2012 -
01/01/2015
Land Cover Land Use Change ,
NASA
Vulnerability assessment of mangrove forests in the Americas
;
Co-Investigator
03/01/2011 -
01/01/2014
TERRAQUA,
NASA
Multi-Sensor Retrieval of vegetation 3-D structure and Biomass using Physically-Based Algorithms.
;
Co-Investigator
03/01/2011 -
03/01/2014
TERRAQUA,
NASA
Optical and Radar Data Fusion for Flood Mapping, In partnership with the CSA and ESA
;
Co-Investigator
01/01/2011
Education and Public Outreach,
NASA
Using Space Imaging Technology to study Earth and Sun (SITES)
;
Co-Investigator
09/01/2016 -
02/28/2018
NASA BIODIVERSITY,
NASA
The ABC's (Arboreal to Benthic Communities) of Land to Ocean Biodiversity (LOBO)
;
Co-Investigator
Languages: French ,German, Spanish and Portuguese
Refereed
Bollian, T., B. Osmanoglu, R. F. Rincon, S. Lee, and T. E. Fatoyinbo Agueh. 2018. "Detection and Geolocation of P-Band Radio Frequency Interference Using EcoSAR."
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing,
(Accepted)
Armstrong, A., R. Fischer, A. Huth, H. Shugart, and T. Fatoyinbo. 2018. "Simulating Forest Dynamics of Lowland Rainforests in Eastern Madagascar."
Forests,
9
(4):
214
[10.3390/f9040214]
Thomas, N., P. Bunting, R. Lucas, et al. 2018. "Mapping Mangrove Extent and Change: A Globally Applicable Approach."
Remote Sensing,
10
(9):
1466
[10.3390/rs10091466]
Fatoyinbo, L. 2017. "Ecology: Vast peatlands found in the Congo Basin."
Nature,
542
(7639):
38-39
[10.1038/542038b]
Fatoyinbo, T. (., E. A. Feliciano, D. Lagomasino, S. K. Lee, and C. Trettin. 2017. "Estimating mangrove aboveground biomass from airborne LiDAR data: a case study from the Zambezi River delta."
Environmental Research Letters,
[10.1088/1748-9326/aa9f03]
Pettorelli, N., M. Wegmann, A. Skidmore, et al. 2016. "Framing the concept of satellite remote sensing essential biodiversity variables: challenges and future directions."
Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation,
2
(3):
122--131
[10.1002/rse2.15]
Lagomasino, D., T. Fatoyinbo, S. Lee, et al. 2016. "A Comparison of Mangrove Canopy Height Using Multiple Independent Measurements from Land, Air, and Space."
Remote Sensing,
8
(4):
327
[10.3390/rs8040327]
Rincon, R. F., T. Fatoyinbo, B. Osmanoglu, et al. 2016. "ECOSAR: P-Band Digital Beamforming Polarimetric and Single Pass Interferometric SAR: Instrument Performance."
Proceedings of EUSAR 2016: 11th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar,
1-5.
Lee, S.-K., T. Fatoyinbo, D. Lagomasino, B. Osmanoglu, and E. Feliciano. 2016. "Ground-level digital terrain model (DTM) construction from TanDEM-X InSAR data and WorldView stereo-photogrammetric images."
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2016 IEEE International,
6040--6042
[10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7730578]
Lagomasino, D., T. Fatoyinbo, S.-K. Lee, and M. Simard. 2015. "High-resolution forest canopy height estimation in an African blue carbon ecosystem."
Remote Sens Ecol Conserv,
1
(1):
51-60
[10.1002/rse2.3]
Lee, S.-K., L. E. Fatoyinbo Agueh, D. Lagomasino, et al. 2015. "Large-scale mangrove canopy height map generation from TanDEM-X data by means of Pol-InSAR techniques."
2015 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS),
[10.1109/igarss.2015.7326420]
Lee, S.-K., and T. E. Fatoyinbo. 2015. "TanDEM-X Pol-InSAR Inversion for Mangrove Canopy Height Estimation."
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Observations Remote Sensing,
8
(7):
3608-3618
[10.1109/jstars.2015.2431646]
Long, S., T. E. Fatoyinbo Agueh, and F. S. Policelli. 2014. "Flood extent mapping for Namibia using change detection and thresholding with SAR ."
Environ. Res. Lett.,
9
(3):
035002
[10.1088/1748-9326/9/3/035002]
Lucas, R., L.-M. Rebelo, L. E. Fatoyinbo Agueh, et al. 2014. "Contribution of L-band SAR to systematic global mangrove monitoring."
Marine and Freshwater Research,
65
(7):
589–603
[10.1071/MF13177 ]
Thomas, N., R. Lucas, T. Itoh, et al. 2014. "An approach to monitoring mangrove extents through time-series comparison of JERS-1 SAR and ALOS PALSAR data."
Wetlands Ecology and Management,
1-15
[10.1007/s11273-014-9370-6]
Cornforth, W., T. Fatoyinbo, T. Freemantle, and N. Pettorelli. 2013. "Advanced Land Observing Satellite Phased Array Type L-Band SAR (ALOS PALSAR) to Inform the Conservation of Mangroves: Sundarbans as a Case Study."
Remote Sensing,
5
(1):
224-237
[10.3390/rs5010224]
Fatoyinbo Agueh, T. E., and M. Simard. 2013. "Height and biomass of mangroves in Africa from ICESat/GLAS and SRTM."
International Journal of Remote Sensing,
34
(2):
668-681
[Full Text (Link)]
[10.1080/01431161.2012.712224]
Rincon, R. F., T. E. Fatoyinbo Agueh, K. J. Ranson, et al. 2012. "Development of the EcoSAR P-band synthetic aperture radar."
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International,
Munich, Germany: 4505 - 4508
[10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350469]
Armstrong, A. H., H. H. Shugart, and L. E. Fatoyinbo Agueh. 2011. "Characterization of Community Composition and Forest Structure in a Madagascar Lowland Rainforest ."
Tropical Conservation Science ,
4
(4):
428-444
[Full Text (Link)]
Fatoyinbo Agueh, L. E., and M. Simard. 2008. "Landscape-scale extent, height, biomass, and carbon estimation of Mozambique's mangrove forests with Landsat ETM+ and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission elevation data."
J. Geophys. Res.,
113
(G2):
G02S06
[Full Text (Link)]
[10.1029/2007JG000551]
Non-Refereed
Pettorelli, N., H. Nagendra, D. Rocchini, et al. 2017. "Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation: three years on."
Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation
3
(2):
53-56
[10.1002/rse2.53]
Osmanoglu, B., R. F. Rincon, S. Lee, T. Fatoyinbo, and T. Bollian. 2016. "Radio frequency interference detection and mitigation techniques using data from EcoSAR 2014 Flight Campaign."
Proceedings of EUSAR 2016: 11th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
1-4.
Lucas, R., L. Fatoyinbo, M. Simard, and L.-M. Rebelo. 2016. "Remote Sensing of Wetland Types: Mangroves."
The Wetland Book
1-6
[10.1007/978-94-007-6172-8_305-1]
Rincon, R., T. Fatoyinbo, B. Osmanoglu, et al. 2016. "Development of Next Generation Digital Beamforming Synthetic Aperture Radar architectures."
2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
[10.1109/igarss.2016.7729544]
Rincon, R. F., T. Fatoyinbo, B. Osmanoglu, et al. 2015. "ECOSAR: P-band digital beamforming polarimetric and single pass interferometric SAR."
2015 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarCon)
[10.1109/radar.2015.7131086]
Rincon, R., T. Fatoyinbo, B. Osmanoglu, et al. 2015. "Next generation Digital Beamforming Synthetic Aperture Radar (DBSAR-2)."
2015 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
2774-2777
[10.1109/igarss.2015.7326389]
Rincon, R., T. Fatoyinbo, S. Lee, et al. 2015. "Digital beamforming synthetic aperture radar (DBSAR): Single-pass interferometry for forest structure estimation."
2015 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
200-202
[10.1109/igarss.2015.7325734]
Rincon, R. F., T. E. Fatoyinbo Agueh, K. J. Ranson, et al. 2014. "The ecosystems SAR (EcoSAR) an airborne P-band polarimetric InSAR for the measurement of vegetation structure, biomass and permafrost."
Radar Conference, 2014 IEEE
1443-1445
[10.1109/RADAR.2014.6875827]
Lee, S., T. E. Fatoyinbo Agueh, B. Osmanoglu, and G. Sun. 2014. "Polarimetric SAR interferometry evaluation in mangroves."
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2014 IEEE International
4584 - 4587
[10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947513]
Fatoyinbo Agueh, T. E., ed. 2012. "Remote Sensing of Biomass - Principles and Applications."
Vienna, Austria: InTech
[10.5772/696]
Fatoyinbo Agueh, T. E., R. F. Rincon, K. J. Ranson, et al. 2012. "Digital Beamforming Synthetic Aperture Radar (DBSAR) polarimetric operation during the Eco3D flight campaign."
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International
1549-1552
[Full Text (Link)]
[10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6351101]
Fatoyinbo Agueh, L. E., R. F. Rincon, D. J. Harding, et al. 2012. "The 2011 Eco3D flight campaign: Vegetation structure and biomass estimation from simultaneous SAR, lidar and radiometer measurements."
2012 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
3387–3390
[10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350694]
Refereed
Bollian, T., B. Osmanoglu, R. F. Rincon, S. Lee, and T. E. Fatoyinbo Agueh. 2018. "Detection and Geolocation of P-Band Radio Frequency Interference Using EcoSAR."
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
(Accepted)
Armstrong, A., R. Fischer, A. Huth, H. Shugart, and T. Fatoyinbo. 2018. "Simulating Forest Dynamics of Lowland Rainforests in Eastern Madagascar."
Forests
9
(4):
214
[10.3390/f9040214]
Thomas, N., P. Bunting, R. Lucas, et al. 2018. "Mapping Mangrove Extent and Change: A Globally Applicable Approach."
Remote Sensing
10
(9):
1466
[10.3390/rs10091466]
Fatoyinbo, L. 2017. "Ecology: Vast peatlands found in the Congo Basin."
Nature
542
(7639):
38-39
[10.1038/542038b]
Fatoyinbo, T. (., E. A. Feliciano, D. Lagomasino, S. K. Lee, and C. Trettin. 2017. "Estimating mangrove aboveground biomass from airborne LiDAR data: a case study from the Zambezi River delta."
Environmental Research Letters
[10.1088/1748-9326/aa9f03]
Pettorelli, N., M. Wegmann, A. Skidmore, et al. 2016. "Framing the concept of satellite remote sensing essential biodiversity variables: challenges and future directions."
Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation
2
(3):
122--131
[10.1002/rse2.15]
Lagomasino, D., T. Fatoyinbo, S. Lee, et al. 2016. "A Comparison of Mangrove Canopy Height Using Multiple Independent Measurements from Land, Air, and Space."
Remote Sensing
8
(4):
327
[10.3390/rs8040327]
Rincon, R. F., T. Fatoyinbo, B. Osmanoglu, et al. 2016. "ECOSAR: P-Band Digital Beamforming Polarimetric and Single Pass Interferometric SAR: Instrument Performance."
Proceedings of EUSAR 2016: 11th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
1-5
Lee, S.-K., T. Fatoyinbo, D. Lagomasino, B. Osmanoglu, and E. Feliciano. 2016. "Ground-level digital terrain model (DTM) construction from TanDEM-X InSAR data and WorldView stereo-photogrammetric images."
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2016 IEEE International
6040--6042
[10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7730578]
Lagomasino, D., T. Fatoyinbo, S.-K. Lee, and M. Simard. 2015. "High-resolution forest canopy height estimation in an African blue carbon ecosystem."
Remote Sens Ecol Conserv
1
(1):
51-60
[10.1002/rse2.3]
Lee, S.-K., L. E. Fatoyinbo Agueh, D. Lagomasino, et al. 2015. "Large-scale mangrove canopy height map generation from TanDEM-X data by means of Pol-InSAR techniques."
2015 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
[10.1109/igarss.2015.7326420]
Lee, S.-K., and T. E. Fatoyinbo. 2015. "TanDEM-X Pol-InSAR Inversion for Mangrove Canopy Height Estimation."
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Observations Remote Sensing
8
(7):
3608-3618
[10.1109/jstars.2015.2431646]
Long, S., T. E. Fatoyinbo Agueh, and F. S. Policelli. 2014. "Flood extent mapping for Namibia using change detection and thresholding with SAR ."
Environ. Res. Lett.
9
(3):
035002
[10.1088/1748-9326/9/3/035002]
Lucas, R., L.-M. Rebelo, L. E. Fatoyinbo Agueh, et al. 2014. "Contribution of L-band SAR to systematic global mangrove monitoring."
Marine and Freshwater Research
65
(7):
589–603
[10.1071/MF13177 ]
Thomas, N., R. Lucas, T. Itoh, et al. 2014. "An approach to monitoring mangrove extents through time-series comparison of JERS-1 SAR and ALOS PALSAR data."
Wetlands Ecology and Management
1-15
[10.1007/s11273-014-9370-6]
Cornforth, W., T. Fatoyinbo, T. Freemantle, and N. Pettorelli. 2013. "Advanced Land Observing Satellite Phased Array Type L-Band SAR (ALOS PALSAR) to Inform the Conservation of Mangroves: Sundarbans as a Case Study."
Remote Sensing
5
(1):
224-237
[10.3390/rs5010224]
Fatoyinbo Agueh, T. E., and M. Simard. 2013. "Height and biomass of mangroves in Africa from ICESat/GLAS and SRTM."
International Journal of Remote Sensing
34
(2):
668-681
[Full Text (Link)]
[10.1080/01431161.2012.712224]
Rincon, R. F., T. E. Fatoyinbo Agueh, K. J. Ranson, et al. 2012. "Development of the EcoSAR P-band synthetic aperture radar."
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International
4505 - 4508
[10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350469]
Armstrong, A. H., H. H. Shugart, and L. E. Fatoyinbo Agueh. 2011. "Characterization of Community Composition and Forest Structure in a Madagascar Lowland Rainforest ."
Tropical Conservation Science
4
(4):
428-444
[Full Text (Link)]
Fatoyinbo Agueh, L. E., and M. Simard. 2008. "Landscape-scale extent, height, biomass, and carbon estimation of Mozambique's mangrove forests with Landsat ETM+ and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission elevation data."
J. Geophys. Res.
113
(G2):
G02S06
[Full Text (Link)]
[10.1029/2007JG000551]
Non-Refereed
Pettorelli, N., H. Nagendra, D. Rocchini, et al. 2017. "Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation: three years on."
Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation
3
(2):
53-56
[10.1002/rse2.53]
Osmanoglu, B., R. F. Rincon, S. Lee, T. Fatoyinbo, and T. Bollian. 2016. "Radio frequency interference detection and mitigation techniques using data from EcoSAR 2014 Flight Campaign."
Proceedings of EUSAR 2016: 11th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
1-4
Lucas, R., L. Fatoyinbo, M. Simard, and L.-M. Rebelo. 2016. "Remote Sensing of Wetland Types: Mangroves."
The Wetland Book
1-6
[10.1007/978-94-007-6172-8_305-1]
Rincon, R., T. Fatoyinbo, B. Osmanoglu, et al. 2016. "Development of Next Generation Digital Beamforming Synthetic Aperture Radar architectures."
2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
[10.1109/igarss.2016.7729544]
Rincon, R. F., T. Fatoyinbo, B. Osmanoglu, et al. 2015. "ECOSAR: P-band digital beamforming polarimetric and single pass interferometric SAR."
2015 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarCon)
[10.1109/radar.2015.7131086]
Rincon, R., T. Fatoyinbo, B. Osmanoglu, et al. 2015. "Next generation Digital Beamforming Synthetic Aperture Radar (DBSAR-2)."
2015 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
2774-2777
[10.1109/igarss.2015.7326389]
Rincon, R., T. Fatoyinbo, S. Lee, et al. 2015. "Digital beamforming synthetic aperture radar (DBSAR): Single-pass interferometry for forest structure estimation."
2015 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
200-202
[10.1109/igarss.2015.7325734]
Rincon, R. F., T. E. Fatoyinbo Agueh, K. J. Ranson, et al. 2014. "The ecosystems SAR (EcoSAR) an airborne P-band polarimetric InSAR for the measurement of vegetation structure, biomass and permafrost."
Radar Conference, 2014 IEEE
1443-1445
[10.1109/RADAR.2014.6875827]
Lee, S., T. E. Fatoyinbo Agueh, B. Osmanoglu, and G. Sun. 2014. "Polarimetric SAR interferometry evaluation in mangroves."
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2014 IEEE International
4584 - 4587
[10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947513]
Fatoyinbo Agueh, T. E. 2012. "Remote Sensing of Biomass - Principles and Applications."
[10.5772/696]
Fatoyinbo Agueh, T. E., R. F. Rincon, K. J. Ranson, et al. 2012. "Digital Beamforming Synthetic Aperture Radar (DBSAR) polarimetric operation during the Eco3D flight campaign."
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International
1549-1552
[Full Text (Link)]
[10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6351101]
Fatoyinbo Agueh, L. E., R. F. Rincon, D. J. Harding, et al. 2012. "The 2011 Eco3D flight campaign: Vegetation structure and biomass estimation from simultaneous SAR, lidar and radiometer measurements."
2012 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
3387–3390
[10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350694]
