Evapotranspiration (ET), including evaporation from soil surface and vegetation transpiration, is an important variable for water and energy balances on the Earth's surface. Quantifying evapotranspiration (ET) from agriculture ...

Forest conversion to oil palm plantations and development in central Sumatra has been rampant over the past two decades. Home to critically endangered species such as the Sumatran tiger and Sumatran elephant, continued ...

The Washington D.C. area, like many cities, is covered with impermeable surfaces. With millions of cars on the roads every year, runoff is a major problem for the Potomac and the Anacostia rivers, which both empty into the ...

For the acute contradiction between land and people, cherishing and reasonable using per inch land is a persistent national policy in China, whereas land damage is unavoidable in mining, construction and other activity. ...

Under-reporting of selective logging and forest disturbance has posed an issue for forest health and deforestation estimations in the tropics due to difficulty of detection by satellite data. Several studies have proposed ...

Precipitation efficiency is commonly defined as the ratio of the amount of precipitation at ground level to the amount of precipitable water in the column of the atmosphere above. The value represents the fraction of ...

The goal of this project is to analyze the effect that protected wilderness areas have on local human populations through the use of GIS. Using data from Northern Tanzania and from Virginia we hope to discover the degree ...

Because our group is made up of three meteorologists our ideas for our GIS based research naturally favored weather based ideas, so it was only right that our eventual idea coincided with this recent massive snow storm ...

Lyme, a tick-borne disease, has been endemic in Northeastern America for decades. However, with changing development patterns it is becoming a concern in areas where it was not previously endemic. Areas with high herbaceous- ...

Landsat data offered a great help in mapping a lot of vegetation parameters at 30 m spatial resolution but unfortunately does not provide daily coverage (it has a 16 day revisit cycle). This is a major obstacle for monitoring ...