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2023 GIS and Remote Sensing Research Symposium
(2023-04-21)Schedule for the Virginia Tech GIS and Remote Sensing Symposium, held on April 21, 2023. -
Proceedings of the 2022 Web Archiving and Digital Libraries Workshop
(2022-06-24)1. Where are the Datasets? A case study on the German Academic Web Archive by Yousef Younes, Sebastian Tiesler, Robert Jäschke and Brigitte Mathiak 2. Comparison of Access Patterns of Robots and Humans in Web Archives ... -
Rare Plants Love Whitewater Too!
(New River Symposium, 2022-04-11)The riparian vegetation communities of New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, Gauley River National Recreation Area, and Bluestone National Scenic River represent some of the most biodiverse and rare flora with within ... -
WV Stream Watch App: Easily Report Pollution Incidents in West Virginia’s Waters
(New River Symposium, 2022-04-11)Citizen scientists are increasingly using Smartphone apps as a way to broaden and streamline data collection. WV Stream Watch, an app recently developed by West Virginia Rivers and Trout Unlimited, is an effective tool ... -
Eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) in New River Gorge National Park and Preserve: Trends, Concerns, and Management
(New River Symposium, 2022-04)The eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) is a long-lived, shade-tolerant evergreen tree which grows throughout eastern North America, including within New River Gorge National Park and Preserve. Its dense foliage creates a ... -
Longitudinal assessment of estrogenic activity along the New River
(New River Symposium, 2022-04)The presence of endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) exhibiting estrogenic activity in aquatic environments has been recognized as a widespread, pervasive environmental issue since the mid-1990s. These estrogenic compounds ... -
Recreation Management Issues on Claytor Lake, Virginia
(New River Symposium, 2022-04)Perceptions of the recreation experience on Claytor Lake. -
No Stone Unturned: Studying Bluehead Chubs at Virginia Tech
(New River Symposium, 2022-04)The bluehead chub (Nocomis leptocephalus) is a common, medium-sized freshwater minnow found in streams across the southeastern United States. Each summer, mature male chubs construct mound nests out of thousands of pebbles ... -
Estimating County level Timber Volume in Virginia Using Small Area Estimation
(Virginia Tech, 2021-04-30)Accurate estimates of forest components such as, biomass, composition, or health are important for forest management and policy decisions. The USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program serves as a ... -
Pine Plantation Identification using NAIP Imagery and a Convolutional Neural Network
(Virginia Tech, 2021-04-30)Pine plantations in the Southeastern United states are presently under-quantified using disturbance based metrics of forest change. Methods such as the Global Forest Change data-set have limited accuracy in identifying ... -
Assessment of the diurnal relationship of photochemical reflectance index to forest light use efficiency by accounting for sunlit and shaded foliage
(Virginia Tech, 2021-04-30)Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) is the amount of carbon fixed during photosynthesis by all producers in the ecosystem. GPP is dependent on light use efficiency (LUE), photosynthetically active radiation (PAR), and fraction ... -
Mapping Land use and Land Cover change on Brazil's land tenure categories using Google Earth Engine
(Virginia Tech, 2021-04-30)Brazilian territory expands up to 851.6 million ha, of which 44.2% land is privately owned, and 36.1% land is public owned.The privately owned land are registed under the nationwide tenure registries such as Cadastro ... -
Understanding multitemporal landscape dynamics through remote sensing and paleoecological modeling in the Virginia Tech Environmental Tracking Lab
(Virginia Tech, 2021-04-30)The Environmental Tracking Lab at Virginia Tech currently comprises five graduate students under the direction of Dr. Lisa Kennedy. Our team members have prior training in biogeography, physical geography, biology and ... -
Observing a Global Pandemic from Space: Evaluating Participatory Geographic Information Systems (PGIS) during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic
(Virginia Tech, 2021-04-30)When the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus emerged in December 2019, GIS technologies and web-based GIS dashboards were rapidly employed to share information regarding disease spread and impact on society. As GIS-based tools are ... -
Impacts of Nationwide Lockdown due to COVID 19 Outbreak on Air Quality in Bangladesh
(Virginia Tech, 2021-04-30)In Bangladesh, a nationwide lockdown was imposed on 26th March 2020. Due to restricted emissions, it was hypothesized that the air quality has been improved during lockdown throughout the country. The study is intended to ... -
Tracking Northern Appalachian Political Participation and its Consequences, 2000-2020
(Virginia Tech, 2021-04-30)Over the past twenty years, political participation levels have had significant impacts on the results of presidential elections. The Northern Appalachia region, defined by the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) to ... -
Effect of establishment fertilization on leaf area development of loblolly pine plantation stands in the southeastern United States
(Virginia Tech, 2021-04-30)Loblolly pine plantations in the southeastern United States are some of the most intensively managed forest plantations in the world. Within intensive management one common practice is fertilizing a stand/site at establishment. ... -
Assessing the utility of NAIP digital aerial photogrammetric point clouds for estimating canopy height of managed loblolly pine plantations in the southeastern United States
(Virginia Tech, 2021-04-30)Remote sensing offers many advantages to previous forest measurements, such as limiting costs and time in the field. Light detection and ranging (lidar) has been shown to enable accurate estimates of forest height. Lidar ... -
Preserving historical maps of Blacksburg, VA helps to focus archeological studies of Solitude
(Virginia Tech, 2021-04-30)By comparing historical maps to our current landscapes we can find historical buildings forgotten to time as a means of discovering and learning about our pasts. Unfortunately, we cannot reflect on our past without taking ... -
Mapping Atmospheric Drone Data and Sharing with ArcGIS Hub
(Virginia Tech, 2021-04-30)A drone, equipped with a temperature-humidity sensor, was used to collect atmospheric data at Bald Knob, the Virginia Tech Drone Park, and Huckleberry Trail. Data points were mapped into ArcGIS Pro and compared to data ...
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