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Combined List - All Research Projects
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Uganda 1963 A photographic catalog showing rural settlements and crops in Uganda. |
Deshler |
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Science Applications Center The goal of the RESAC is to provide improved information and technologies to assess regional impacts of global environmental change. |
Prince |
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Land Cover Change Using MODIS, investigators at UMD have developed a new suite of land cover characterization and change products. |
Townshend DeFries |
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High-Resolution PAR MODIS and other remotely sensed data are used to estimate incident Photosynthetically Active Radiation for carbon studies |
Liang |
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MODIS Rapid Response The Web Fire Mapper displays interactive maps incorporating fire detection points data. Users can identify attributes over time spans and query information for individual points. |
Justice |
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Fire Mapping Team The GOFC/GOLD-Fire Program makes use of fire products from satellites for fire management, policy decision-making, and global change research. |
Justice Csiszar Roy |
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Carbon Cycle Studies A unique three dimensional, high-resolution radar backscatter model and a lidar waveform model have been developed at UMD and GSFC. |
Sun |
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Monitoring Forest Dynamics To monitor the dynamics of the forests in Northeastern China, this project is developing an operational forest monitoring system using satellite remote sensing data. |
Sun |
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Coastal Marsh Loss This research aims to assess changes in coastal marshes due to the rapid rates of sea level rise that have characterized the last decade. |
Kearney Kasischke |
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VIIRS Environment Data Researchers assess the suitability of the NPP VIIRS implementation of heritage algorithms and the stability of the resulting EDRs for the long term climate data record. |
Liang |
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Lidar Waveform Correlation This research further develops and demonstrates the accuracy and precision of vertical surface change measurements using lidar return waveforms. |
Hofton | Goward |
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Landsat Acquisition Plan The objective of this project is to provide comprehensive global coverage with Landsat 7 in support of the science objectives of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise. |
Goward |
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Mapping Canopy Structure A collaborative effort investigating the use of space-based lidar remote sensing to produce global data sets of canopy height, vertical canopy structure and sub-canopy topography. |
Dubayah |
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Carbon Cycling & Biodiversity Researchers use lidar remote sensing of forest structure to explore the effects of this structure on species richness and distributions. |
Dubayah |
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Controlling Epidemics Dr. Dibble has developed a suite of tools to explore the spatially explicit behavior of any SEIR epidemiological model to study communicable infectious disease diffusion. |
Dibble |
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Mid-Atlantic Simulation The Mid-Atlantic Regional Simulation (MARS) project explores the driving forces shaping regional settlement patterns in the Mid Atlantic Highlands Area (MAHA). |
Dibble |
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3D Computational Lab GeoGraph computational laboratory tools have been designed to support controlled experiments for agent-based geographic science. |
Dibble |
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Fire Product Development UMD and Russian scientists are partnering to improve the quality and spatio-temporal coverage of biomass burning data in Northern Eurasia. |
Csiszar |
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Surface Reflectance Product
Using MODIS, investigators at UMD have developed a new surface reflectance product. |
Vermote |
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Tracking Elephants This project tracks Forest Elephants in Central Africa using telemetry data, provided by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). |
Davies |
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Tropical Deforestation
We are developing approaches to monitor deforestation through repeatable and automated analysis of satellite data. |
Defries |
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Detecting Amazon Fires
UMD, NASA, and IBAMA team is quantifying the spatial extent of Amazon fire and characterizing types based on the nature of land use changes. |
Csiszar |
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Vegetation Vertical Structure
Recent flight projects include those in support of the North American Carbon Program, NASA’s Solid Earth and Natural Hazards Program, etc. |
Hofton |
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CARPE: UMD & NASA
Central Africa Regional Project for the Environment - faculty from UMD and NASA Goddard have been involved with research in the Congo Basin since 1985. |
Justice |
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Global Agriculture Monitoring
The Global Agriculture Monitoring (GLAM) Project aims to enhance the agricultural monitoring capabilities of the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS). |
Justice |
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Trace Gas Emissions
The focus is to estimate emissions originating from fires and to determine their influence on variations in the atmospheric concentration of CO2 and othergases. |
Kasischke |
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Carbon Cycling & Eco-Recovery
This project focuses on understanding how fire influences ecosystem processes in the boreal forests of interior Alaska and encompasses several avenues of research. |
Kasischke |
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Gas and Particulate Emissions
The main aim of this research is to address the seasonal variations of biomass burning emissions and the associated impacts on emissions quantification. |
Korontzi |
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Data Assimilation System
We are reformulating the analysis of EOS data in this project by developing a prototype data assimilation system to generate an improved suite of land products from multiple EOS data sets. |
Liang | Prince |
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Low-cost Remote Sensing
In this project airborne multispectral imaging is being assessed for applications in agriculture. |
Prince |
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Global Climate Dataset
This project will create an equivalent MODIS data set and use the AVHRR/MODIS overlap period to asses the uncertainties in the AVHRR data set and to address data continuity issues. |
Prince |
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Post-Fire Rehab
An interagency team is engaged in efforts to develop advanced remote sensing applications to assist federal wildfire managers. |
Sohlberg |
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Surface Height Validation
This project involves the validation of surface height from Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) using the shuttle laser altimeter. |
Sun |
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Global Land Cover Facility
The GLCF specializes in developing land cover products that examine forest change including activities in the Amazon tropical rainforest, and the Canadian boreal forest. |
Townshend |
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Land Use Change
Study to understand how land use change in areas surrounding nature reserves affects biodiversity around the world. |
DeFries |
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National Forest
This study examines the socio-economic and political context of the Jefferson National Forest, and the role of stakeholders and of the public in decision-making. |
Geores |
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Watershed Surface Hydrology
Despite a great deal of effort, much of the progress that has been made in restoring the health of the nation's waterways has been offset by continued development. |
Stephen D. Prince Scott Goetz (WHRC) |
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Global Fire Information
This project integrates Remote Sensing and GIS technologies to provide Global fire information in easy to use formats for decision making. |
Davies |
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Dryland Desertification
Dryland degradation or desertification is widely believed to be a major global environmental threat. In this project this problem is addressed at local to regional and global scales. |
Prince |
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Program for Environment
CARPE develops forest cover products, data and information tools, including predictive modeling and monitoring of changes in the Congo Basin. |
Justice |
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Amazon Deforestation
Coarse resolution MODIS satellite data is used to efficiently monitor deforestation. This research aims to improve operational monitoring in the Amazon basin. |
DeFries |
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Africa Fire Network
The Department of Geography is a key partner in SAFNet, providing technical support in the area of satellite remote sensing and geospatial data management. |
Davies |
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Indonesian Borneo Dipterocarps Habitat fragmentation has negatively affected dipterocarps' ability to reproduce, sustain vertebrate populations and sequester carbon. |
Trigg |
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Northern Eurasia Earth Science
NEESPI is an international program of coordinated research on the state and dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems in northern Eurasia and their interactions with the Earth's Climate system. |
Csiszar |
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Dynamics of Change in Boreal Forests
Dr. Kasischke is carrying out research on the affects of variations in climate on the fire regime of the North American fire regime |
Kasischke |
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Patterns of Coastal Flooding
Dr. Kasischke is working with Drs. Kearney and Sun to develop new approaches to use satellite imagery to analyze the impacts of sea-level rise on coastal vegetation communities. |
Kasischke |
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Wildfire Consumption of Organic Matter
Dr. Kasischke is developing new approaches to assess how recent changes in the fire regime in the North American boreal forest region have impacted terrestrial carbon cycling. |
Kasischke |
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Long-Term Fire Dynamics
The research will create a standardized fire data record for the Amazon derived from multiple satellite sensors; it will involve an extensive data inter-comparison analysis |
Csiszar |
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