Browsing by Author "Popescu, Sorin"
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Farid Marandi, Sayena (2017-05-01)Runoff with high phosphorus (P) concentrations from agricultural, industrial and domestic land uses is contributing to detrimental environmental changes throughout the entire ecosystem. To examine this phenomenon, three ...
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Austin, Michael Andrew (2016-11-28)The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) serves as a means of legally identifying land in 30 out of 50 U.S. states. PLSS coordinates are frequently used to describe spatial data such as the locations of wildfires, but PLSS ...
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Innocenti, Rachel (2021-07-20)Sandy beach and dune ecosystems make up two-thirds of the world's ice-free coastline and constitute an important part of the global land-sea interface; however, rising sea levels, changing disturbance regimes, and expanding ...
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Esquivel, Isaac Luis (2020-05-22)This body of work investigates the role the landscape plays on the spatial relationships of cotton pests and native be pollinators at the local level, with the goal of improving pest management strategies at a larger scale ...
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Marshall, Mike E. (2012-07-16)The concept of habitat quality is fundamental to the study of ecology, and ecologists have long recognized the importance of vegetation structure and composition in the assessment of wildlife habitat. Vegetative characteristics ...
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Williams, Amy M. (2011-10-21)Coastal ecosystems provide important resources for social, economic and environmental capital to global and local communities. Socially, coastal ecosystems provide a place for people to recreate and get in touch with nature. ...
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Simoneaux, Bryan Edwin (2020-12-03)Many research institutions conduct annual forage trials to determine which species and varieties of those species produce the most biomass in specific geographical areas. These trials can be costly, time consuming and ...
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Zhao, Kaiguang (2009-05-15)LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) directly measures canopy vertical structures, and provides an effective remote sensing solution to accurate and spatiallyexplicit mapping of forest characteristics, such as canopy height ...
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Nakasagga, Shakirah (2021-07-26)There is need to sustainably meet the growing food demand of a predicted population of 9 billion by 2050. Perennial grain crops present an opportunity for increased genetic and ecosystem diversity, yields and other ecological ...
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Liu, Meng (2022-03-28)Climate change induces environmental concerns such as rising temperatures, increasing droughts, and more fires. The risk of large fires has increased over the past decades, causing threats to forest growth and biosphere ...
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Ju, Yang (2017-05-10)Snow cover plays an important role in the Earth’s climate systems. Accurately estimating snow cover is beneficial for predicting the runoff from snowmelt. Fractional Snow Cover (FSC) mapping computes the fraction of snow ...
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Green, Carl A (2018-05-01)Poleward vegetation expansion has affected Alaska for decades and due to recently increased rates of warming, the expansion will accelerate. Glacier recession in the region has exposed land that was previously ice covered. ...
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Akboy, Serra (2012-02-14)The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) is one of the oldest federal programs in the United States. In 1933, the HABS culture of documentation started with the mission of creating a permanent record of the nation's ...
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Bhandari, Mahendra (2020-04-13)Precise field phenotyping has always been a bottleneck in wheat breeding. Traditionally, field phenotyping has been done by physically inspecting plots one by one. A substantial amount of time, cost, and labor is required ...
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Anderson II, Steven Langlie (2019-07-18)Unmanned aerial system (UAS) technologies are becoming common place within field-based agriculture programs allowing breeders to evaluate greater numbers of genotypes, reducing resource inputs and maintaining unbiased data ...
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Berg, Matthew (2014-04-15)Rangelands are widespread and include grasslands, shrublands, and woodlands, covering more than two thirds of the earth’s land surface. This cover type represents half of the land area in the United States. These systems ...
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Kaartinen, Harri; Hyyppä, Juha; Yu, Xiaowei; Vastaranta, Mikko; Hyyppä, Hannu; Kukko, Antero; Holopainen, Markus; Heipke, Christian; Hirschmugl, Manuela; Morsdorf, Felix; Næsset, Erik; Pitkänen, Juho; Popescu, Sorin; Solberg, Svein; Wolf, Bernd Michael; Wu, Jee-Cheng (Remote Sensing, 2012)
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Lin, Chinsu; Thomson, Gavin; Popescu, Sorin (Remote Sensing, 2016)
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Cline, Marie (2012-10-19)Movement of growth faults, a type of normal fault which is formed during sedimentation and is characterized by having greater vertical thickness on the downthrown fault side, on barrier islands contributes to wetland losses. ...
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Clifton, Kathryn Marie (2014-05-08)National parks in developing countries often have inhabitants that practice communal land management. Potential drivers for sustainable communal land management have been identified in literature, however these drivers ...