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Visibility & Control in the Vendee (open access)

Visibility & Control in the Vendee

This article uses fieldwork and the concept of relative aging to argue that the system of canals within the Vendee region of western France were begun in the tenth and eleventh centuries in conjunction with the Maillezais Abbey relocation and rebuilding.
Date: 2016
Creator: Deines, Dory & Wilson-Chavez, Owen
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Leaf spectra and weight of species in canopy, subcanopy, and understory layers in a Venezuelan Andean Cloud Forest (open access)

Leaf spectra and weight of species in canopy, subcanopy, and understory layers in a Venezuelan Andean Cloud Forest

Article discussing leaf spectra and the weight of species in canopy, subcanopy, and understory layers in a Venezuelan Andean cloud forest.
Date: 2012
Creator: Acevedo, Miguel F. & Ataroff, Michele
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Wildlife Monitoring

This presentation discusses research on solar powered wildlife monitoring systems. The goal of the project was to develop an off grid video system using solar power for collecting visual data of the burrowing owl roosting behavior in the West Texas region.
Date: July 28, 2013
Creator: Jones, Raechelle; Meyer, Chelsea; Wolf, Lori; Williams, Jennifer & Acevedo, Miguel F.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Rocket Recovery Systems for High Power Model Rocketry

This presentation discusses research on rocket recovery systems for high power model rocketry using Arduino microprocessors with GPS and GSM shields for tracking. This research is part of Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Sensor Education, a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded grant project.
Date: 2013
Creator: Bih, Michael; Gscheidle, Karl H.; Hardy, Debra; Kulle, Gregory; Acevedo, Miguel F.; Kollipara, Naveen et al.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

GPS Tracking of High Power Model Rockets

Poster presented as part of the Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Sensor Education, a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded grant project. This poster discusses research on GPS/GSM based tracking systems for the recovery of high power model rockets.
Date: 2013
Creator: Gscheidle, Karl H.; Hardy, Debra; Kulle, Gregory; Bih, Michael; Acevedo, Miguel F. & Kollipara, Naveen
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Solar Powered Security Systems to Monitor Wildlife

This poster discusses research on creating a solar powered wildlife monitoring system using a security system, Arduino, PIR motion sensor and solar panels with a battery bank.
Date: 2013
Creator: Jones, Raechelle; Meyer, Chelsea; Wolf, Lori; Acevedo, Miguel F. & Williams, Jennifer
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Solar Powered PIR Security System to Monitor Wildlife (open access)

Solar Powered PIR Security System to Monitor Wildlife

This poster discusses research on building a solar powered PIR security system to monitor wildlife. Researchers introduce the concept of off-grid wildlife video monitoring using a security system, a microcontroller, passive infrared motion sensor and the solar panels with a battery bank.
Date: 2013
Creator: Jones, Raechelle; Meyer, Chelsea; Wolf, Lori; Acevedo, Miguel F. & Williams, Jennifer
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Climate Change Impacts on Wetland Vegetation in the Dunhuang Yangguan National Nature Reserve in Northwest China Using Landsat Derived NDVI (open access)

Evaluation of Climate Change Impacts on Wetland Vegetation in the Dunhuang Yangguan National Nature Reserve in Northwest China Using Landsat Derived NDVI

This article uses 41 Landsat images between 1988 and 2016 to calculate the normalized difference vegetation indices (NVDIs) of the wetland vegetation at Xitugou (XTG) and Wowachi (WWC) inside the Dunhuang Yangguan National Nature Reserve in northwest China in order to assess the impacts of climate change on wetland vegetation.
Date: May 10, 2018
Creator: Pan, Feifei; Xie, Jianping; Lin, Juming; Zhao, Tingwei; Ji, Yongyuan; Hu, Qi et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

HIV/AIDS Morbidity in Youths and Teens, Ages 13-24, in Texas Counties

This paper discusses research on HIV/AIDS morbidity in youth and teens, age 13-24, in Texas counties. Using case data provided by the Texas State Department of Health Services, this paper seeks to understand the spatial distribution of HIV/AIDS morbidity among youths and teens and the variables that are significantly related to the disease.
Date: April 14, 2011
Creator: Hatton, Meagan & Oppong, Joseph R.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
TNR and conservation on a university campus: a political ecological perspective (open access)

TNR and conservation on a university campus: a political ecological perspective

Article discussing TNR and conservation on a university campus and a political ecological perspective.
Date: September 25, 2013
Creator: Dombrosky, Jonathan & Wolverton, Steven J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Estimating FPAR of Maize Canopy Using Airborne Discrete-Return LiDAR Data (open access)

Estimating FPAR of Maize Canopy Using Airborne Discrete-Return LiDAR Data

This article tests a method to estimate the fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (FPAR) of maize from airborne discrete-return LiDAR data.
Date: February 26, 2014
Creator: Luo, Shezhou; Wang, Cheng; Xi, Xiaohuan & Pan, Feifei
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Lancet Countdown: tracking progress on health and climate change (open access)

The Lancet Countdown: tracking progress on health and climate change

This article outlines the potential indicators and indicator domains to be tracked by the Lancet Countdown working groups, with suggestions on the methodologies and datasets available to achieve this end.
Date: November 14, 2016
Creator: Watts, Nick; Adger, W. Neil; Ayeb-Karlsson, Sonja; Bai, Yuqi; Byass, Peter; Campbell-Lendrum, Diarmid et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health and Climate Change: policy responses to protect public health (open access)

Health and Climate Change: policy responses to protect public health

This article summarizes key messages from the 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change, accompanied by ten underlying recommendations to accelerate action in the next 5 years.
Date: June 22, 2015
Creator: Watts, Nick; Adger, W. Neil; Agnolucci, Paolo; Blackstock, Jason; Byass, Peter; Cai, Wenjia et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The 2017 Report of The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: From 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health (open access)

The 2017 Report of The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: From 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health

This article summarizes key messages from 40 indicators in the Lancet Countdown's 2017 report.
Date: October 30, 2017
Creator: Watts, Nick; Amann, Markus; Ayeb-Karlsson, Sonja; Belesova, Kristine; Bouley, Timothy; Boykoff, Maxwell et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Monitoring Annual Urban Changes in a Rapidly Growing Portion of Northwest Arkansas with a 20-Year Landsat Record (open access)

Monitoring Annual Urban Changes in a Rapidly Growing Portion of Northwest Arkansas with a 20-Year Landsat Record

This article employs a time series Landsat stack covering the period from 1995 to 2015 to detect the urban dynamics in Northwest Arkansas via a two-stage classification approach.
Date: January 13, 2017
Creator: Reynolds, Ryan; Liang, Lu; Li, XueCao & Dennis, John
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Association between Hantavirus Infection and Selenium Deficiency in Mainland China (open access)

The Association between Hantavirus Infection and Selenium Deficiency in Mainland China

This article studies the role of selenium concentration in hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) caused by hantaviruses, using a multidisciplinary approach combining ecological analysis with preliminary experimental data.
Date: January 20, 2015
Creator: Fang, Liqun; Goeijenbier, Marco; Zuo, Shu-Qing; Wang, Li-Ping; Liang, Song; Klein, Sabra L. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Combining Spatial-Temporal and Phylogenetic Analysis Approaches for Improved Understanding on Global H5N1 Transmission (open access)

Combining Spatial-Temporal and Phylogenetic Analysis Approaches for Improved Understanding on Global H5N1 Transmission

This article reports an interdisciplinary effort that combines the geospatial informatics approach with a bioinformatics approach to form an improved understanding on the transmission mechanisms of H5N1 virus.
Date: October 22, 2010
Creator: Liang, Lu; Xu, Bing; Chen, Yanlei; Liu, Yang; Cao, Wuchun; Fang, Liqun et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of the Habitat of the Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros Rhinoceros Unicornis (Mammalia: Perissodactyla: Rhinocerotidae) at the Chitwan National Park, Nepal (open access)

An Analysis of the Habitat of the Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros Rhinoceros Unicornis (Mammalia: Perissodactyla: Rhinocerotidae) at the Chitwan National Park, Nepal

This article uses geographic information systems and landscape-level data obtained from remote sensing sources to build a habitat suitability index model for the Greater One-horned Rhinoceros.
Date: September 26, 2014
Creator: Thapa, Vivek; Acevedo, Miguel F. & Limbu, Kul P.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
LiDAR Data for Characterizing Linear and Planar Geomorphic Markers in Tectonic Geomorphology (open access)

LiDAR Data for Characterizing Linear and Planar Geomorphic Markers in Tectonic Geomorphology

This paper provides a brief review of airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data for characterizing linear and planar geomorphic markers in tectonic geomorphology, including traces of active faults and surface deformation caused by earthquakes. Challenges and opportunities of LiDAR for the study of tectonic geomorphology and coseismic deformation are also discussed.
Date: November 28, 2014
Creator: Dong, Pinliang
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Editorial: Applications of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) in Geosciences (open access)

Editorial: Applications of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) in Geosciences

This article contains an editorial on applications of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) in Geosciences.
Date: August 18, 2012
Creator: Dong, Pinliang
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nitrate and Chloride Concentrations in Groundwater beneath a Portion of the Trinity Group Outcrop Zone, Texas (open access)

Nitrate and Chloride Concentrations in Groundwater beneath a Portion of the Trinity Group Outcrop Zone, Texas

This article discusses a study in which the authors evaluated spatial distributions of nitrate and chloride concentrations in groundwater in an area of north-central Texas with agricultural activity, in addition to oil and natural gas exploration and activity.
Date: 2012
Creator: Hudak, Paul F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Potential Hazards of Wind Energy For Rare, Threatened, and Endangered Birds and Batsin Texas (open access)

Potential Hazards of Wind Energy For Rare, Threatened, and Endangered Birds and Batsin Texas

This article discusses the potential hazards of wind energy for rare, threatened, and endangered birds and bats in Texas.
Date: 2011
Creator: Graham, T. L. & Hudak, Paul F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spatial Distribution of Solutes in Aquifer Outcrop Zones along the Brazos River, East-Central Texas (open access)

Spatial Distribution of Solutes in Aquifer Outcrop Zones along the Brazos River, East-Central Texas

Article discussing the spatial distribution of solutes in aquifer outcrop zones along the Brazos River, East-Central Texas.
Date: January 2011
Creator: Hudak, Paul F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Forest above Ground Biomass Inversion by Fusing GLAS with Optical Remote Sensing Data (open access)

Forest above Ground Biomass Inversion by Fusing GLAS with Optical Remote Sensing Data

This article describes a study combining Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) data with MODIS/BRDF (Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function) and ASTER GDEM data to estimate forest aboveground biomass in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China.
Date: March 28, 2016
Creator: Xi, Xiaohuan; Han, Tingting; Wang, Cheng; Luo, Shezhou; Xia, Shaobo & Pan, Feifei
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library