Session: Bringing Geospatial Colleagues, Science and Ideas Together: Opportunities for Spatial Analysis and Remote Sensing in Entomology (2009 ESA Annual Meeting, December 13-16, 2009)

Sunday, December 13, 2009: 12:30 PM-5:00 PM

Room 201, Second Floor (Convention Center)

Organizers:

Matthew W. Carroll
Yong-Lak Park

12:30 PM

Introductory Remarks

12:50 PM

0018

Spatial analysis of non-indigenous forest insect pest species richness across the continental United States

Andrew M. Liebhold, USDA Forest Service ; Deborah G. McCullough, Michigan State University ; Laura M. Blackburn, USDA Forest Service ; Kerry Britton, USDA Forest Service Research & Development ; Susan J. Frankel, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station ; Juliann Aukema, The Nature Conservency

1:20 PM

0019

Local spatial patterns along the leading edge of invading gypsy moth populations

Patrick C. Tobin, USDA - Forest Service

1:40 PM

0020

Combining spectral and spatial information to detect Russian wheat aphid infested wheat fields

Norman Elliot, USDA-ARS ; Georges Backoulou, Oklahoma State Univeristy ; Kris Giles, Oklahoma State University

2:00 PM

0021

Detection of European corn borer infestation in rainfed and irrigated corn using airborne hyperspectral imaging: implications for resistance management

Matthew W. Carroll, Monsanto Company ; John A. Glaser, US Environmental Protection Agency ; Thomas E. Hunt, University of Nebraska-Lincoln ; Kenneth L. Copenhaver, Institute for Technology Development

2:20 PM

0022

Applications of unmanned aerial vehicles to pest monitoring

Yong-Lak Park, West Virginia University

2:40 PM

Break

3:00 PM

0023

Spatial modeling of vector borne disease

Rebecca Eisen, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

3:20 PM

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