Kelley O'Neal

 
Education

PhD   Geography, University of Maryland, 2009 (anticipated)
MA   Geography, University of Arizona, 2004
BS   Geography, University of Maryland, 2000

Research Interests

• Sustainability science and human-environment interaction
• Land-cover and land-use dynamics in semi-arid grasslands
• Impacts of climate variability, grazing, and fire management on semi-arid grass/shrub ecosystems

Kelley O'Neal works for the NASA Land-cover Land-use Change Program providing programmatic support, assisting with science team meeting organization, updating program databases, and maintaining the program website. Kelley is also involved with the Mid-Decadal Global Land Survey (MDGLS) Project.

NASA Land-cover Land-use Change Program

Representative Publications

Justice, C.O., L. Giglio, D. Roy, L. Boschetti, I. Csiszar, D. Davies, S. Korontzi, W. Schroeder, K.J. O’Neal, and J.T. Morisette, (2007/8)

Global Fire Products from the MODIS Instruments.
Land Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change: NASA’s Earth Observing System and the Science of ASTER and MODIS B. Ramachandran, C. Justice, and M. Abrams (Eds), Springer Verlag, New York (in press).

Loboda, T., K.J. O'Neal, and I. Csiszar, (2007)

Regionally adaptable dNBR based algorithm for burned area mapping from MODIS data.
Remote Sensing of Environment doi: 10.1016/j.rse.200701.017 (in press).

Gutman, G., C.O. Justice, and K.J. O’Neal, (2007)

Land-cover Land-use Change Program (LCLUC) Science Team Meeting Summary.
The Earth Observer July-August 2007, Vol. 19, Issue 4.

O’Neal, K.J., J. Rogan, and S.R. Yool, (2005)

Monitoring post-fire vegetation regeneration in a Madrean ecosystem.
Proceedings of the Biodiversity and Management of the Madrean Archipelago II: Connecting Mountain Islands and Desert Seas conference, Tucson, AZ pp. 533-535.

Rogan, J., K.J. O'Neal, and S.R. Yool, (2005)

Analysis of twenty years of landscape fragmentation in the Peloncillo Mountains in relation to wildfire, prescribed burning, and cattle grazing.
Proceedings of the Biodiversity and Management of the Madrean Archipelago II: Connecting Mountain Islands and Desert Seas conference, Tucson, AZ pp. 256-259.