IT&I – Information Technology & Interoperability

This month: Join Amelia Keyser-Gibson, UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, to hear her talk, “Thermal Analysis of Climate Ready Vines.”
The Climate Ready Vines project is a multi-state collaborative research effort to evaluate and monitor potential energy saving, water use, ecological, physiological and horticultural characteristics of vine plants across different climates and latitudes in the Western U.S. Vine taxa with differing growing habits, performance, rate of growth and leaf morphology have been selected and assigned one of four irrigation deficit treatments based on reference evapotranspiration, soil and weather conditions. Plants in urban landscapes fulfill important ecosystem services such as shading and cooling buildings and other infrastructure. Experimental plants are grown on standardized trellises and receive one year of establishment irrigation followed by two years of deficit irrigation. Thermal imagery is collected monthly following the initiation of irrigation treatments to quantify leaf temperature across taxa, irrigation treatment and site. We are currently developing a convolutional neural network model for the extraction of temperature data corresponding to plant material to allow for evaluation of if the amount of irrigation has significant implications for vine cooling potential and used to make taxa and irrigation recommendations.

Monthly on the second Thursday. Zoom link below. All meetings are scheduled in U.S. Eastern Time Zone. Convert to your time zone.

What we're working on

The Information Technology and Interoperability (IT&I) webinar series is a monthly gathering dedicated to learning about new tools and techniques in Earth science data. The group is organized by the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) IT&I Committee alongside the USGS Community for Data Integration (CDI).

Upcoming

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