Light detection and ranging and hyperspectral data for estimation of forest biomass: a review (open access)

Light detection and ranging and hyperspectral data for estimation of forest biomass: a review

This review addresses the status of hyperspectral data, LiDAR data, and the fusion of these two data sources for forest biomass estimation in the last decade.
Date: December 18, 2014
Creator: Man, Qixia; Dong, Pinliang; Guo, Huadong; Liu, Guang & Shi, Runhe
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improved bore-sight calibration for airborne light detection and ranging using planar patches (open access)

Improved bore-sight calibration for airborne light detection and ranging using planar patches

This article proposes an improved method for bore-sight calibration based on the principles of symmetry of coordinate offsets and low correlations between bore-sight angles.
Date: May 9, 2016
Creator: Li, Dong; Guo, Huadong; Wang, Cheng; Dong, Pinliang & Zuo, Zhengli
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation Of WEPP For Runoff And Sediment Yield Prediction On Natural Gas Well Sites (open access)

Evaluation Of WEPP For Runoff And Sediment Yield Prediction On Natural Gas Well Sites

This article discusses the evaluation of Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) for runoff and sediment yield prediction on natural gas well sites, instead of focusing only on the effects on fields, rangelands, and forests.
Date: 2008
Creator: Wachal, David J.; Harmel, R. Daren; Banks, Kenneth E. & Hudak, Paul F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geophysical Prospecting for Oil and Gas Well Effluent (open access)

Geophysical Prospecting for Oil and Gas Well Effluent

This article describes the evaluation of the utility of an earth resistivity system for detecting drilling effluent at a site in the Trinity Group outcrop zone.
Date: December 1997
Creator: Hudak, Paul F. & Maxey, George
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mapping Mountain Pine Beetle Mortality through Growth Trend Analysis of Time-Series Landsat Data (open access)

Mapping Mountain Pine Beetle Mortality through Growth Trend Analysis of Time-Series Landsat Data

This article presents a forest growth trend analysis method that integrates Landsat temporal trajectories and decision tree techniques to derive annual forest disturbance maps over an 11-year period.
Date: June 18, 2014
Creator: Liang, Lu; Chen, Yanlei; Hawbaker, Todd J.; Zhu, Zhiliang & Gong, Peng
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Soil Diversity as Affected by Land Use in China: Consequences for Soil Protection (open access)

Soil Diversity as Affected by Land Use in China: Consequences for Soil Protection

This article reports the first effort to assess the impact of land-use change on soil diversity for the entire nation of China.
Date: April 21, 2014
Creator: Shangguan, Wei; Gong, Peng; Liang, Lu; Dai, Yongjiu & Zhang, Keli
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adjusting Sowing Dates Improved Potato Adaptation to Climate Change in Semiarid Region, China (open access)

Adjusting Sowing Dates Improved Potato Adaptation to Climate Change in Semiarid Region, China

This article examines how potato production can be improved by altering planting date in China’s semiarid region, thus improving potato adaptation to climate change.
Date: April 17, 2017
Creator: Hu, Qi; Yang, Ning; Pan, Feifei; Pan, Xuebiao; Wang, Xiaoxiao & Yang, Pengyu
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Malaria in Yunnan Province, China (open access)

Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Malaria in Yunnan Province, China

This article describes the use of GIS techniques to conduct temporal and spatial analyses of both P. vivax and P. falciparum malaria to understand the trend and dynamics of transmission, to identify risk periods and areas, and to determine environmental factors associated with increased risk of malaria.
Date: September 1, 2009
Creator: Hui, Feng-Ming; Xu, Bing; Chen, Zhang-Wei; Cheng, Xiao; Liang, Lu; Huang, Hua-Bing et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of different methods for monitoring glacier changes observed by Landsat images (open access)

Comparison of different methods for monitoring glacier changes observed by Landsat images

This paper presents three methods for classifying glacier boundaries, compares the three methods to provide advice on how to choose an appropriate method, and analyzes the relationship between glacier change and the trends of precipitation and temperature.
Date: March 18, 2014
Creator: Man, Qixia; Guo, Huadong; Liu, Guang & Dong, Pinliang
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
A rich Internet application for automated detection of road blockage in post-disaster scenarios (open access)

A rich Internet application for automated detection of road blockage in post-disaster scenarios

This paper presents the development of a rich Internet application for automated detection of road blockage in post-disaster scenarios using volunteered geographic information from OpenStreetMap street centerlines and airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data.
Date: February 25, 2014
Creator: Liu, W.; Dong, Pinliang; Liu, S. & Liu, J.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Delta-Flux: An Eddy Covariance Network for a Climate-Smart Lower Mississippi Basin (open access)

Delta-Flux: An Eddy Covariance Network for a Climate-Smart Lower Mississippi Basin

This article describes the rationale to create the new Delta-Flux network, which will coordinate efforts to quantify carbon and water budgets at seventeen eddy covariance flux tower sites in the Lower Mississippi River Basin.
Date: February 23, 2017
Creator: Runkle, Benjamin R. K.; Rigby, James R.; Reba, Michele L.; Anapalli, Saseendran S.; Bhattacharjee, Joydeep; Krauss, Ken W. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transition and gap models of forest dynamics (open access)

Transition and gap models of forest dynamics

Article discussing transition and gap models of forest dynamics.
Date: November 1, 1995
Creator: Acevedo, Miguel F.; Urban, D. L. & Ablan, Magdiel
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Climate change and human infectious diseases: A synthesis of research findings from global and spatio-temporal perspectives (open access)

Climate change and human infectious diseases: A synthesis of research findings from global and spatio-temporal perspectives

This article shows that over the past few decades, the reported negative or uncertain responses of infectious diseases to climate change has been growing.
Date: March 23, 2017
Creator: Liang, Lu & Gong, Peng
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Growth dynamics of tropical savanna grasses: from individual shoots to plant models (open access)

Growth dynamics of tropical savanna grasses: from individual shoots to plant models

Paper presented at the First Biennial Meeting of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society in 2002. This paper discusses growth dynamics of tropical savanna grasses from individual shoots to plant models.
Date: 2002
Creator: Raventós, José; Acevedo, Miguel F. & Segarra, José
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Validation of a Non-Targeted LC-MS Approach for Identifying Ancient Proteins: Method Development on Bone to Improve Artifact Residue Analysis (open access)

Validation of a Non-Targeted LC-MS Approach for Identifying Ancient Proteins: Method Development on Bone to Improve Artifact Residue Analysis

This article discusses validation of the potential of an extraction and characterization approach via application to ancient bone proteins, as part of a larger method-development project for innovation and improvement of liquid chromatography - mass spectrometry analysis of protein residues from cooking pottery.
Date: September 4, 2015
Creator: Barker, Andrew; Dombrosky, Jonathan; Chaput, Dale; Venables, Barney J.; Wolverton, Steven J. & Stevens, Stanley M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Archaeology, Heritage, and Moral Terrains: Two Cases from the Mesa Verde Region (open access)

Archaeology, Heritage, and Moral Terrains: Two Cases from the Mesa Verde Region

This article applies an environmental justice lens to two archaeological research narratives, one centering on chemical analysis of biomolecular artifact residues and the other on paleohydrology and Pueblo farming.
Date: September 14, 2016
Creator: Wolverton, Steven J.; Figueroa, Robert & Swentzell, Porter
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sustainable Science? Reducing the Carbon Impact of Scientific Mega-Meetings (open access)

Sustainable Science? Reducing the Carbon Impact of Scientific Mega-Meetings

This article uses 9 years of annual meeting attendance data from the Ecological Society of American and the Association of American Geographers to assess the efficacy of two additional solutions: 1) alternate large national meetings that require significant air travel with smaller regional meetings that do not; and 2) incorporate geography into the meeting location selection process.
Date: October 29, 2011
Creator: Ponette-González, Alexandra G. & Byrnes, Jarrett E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ethnobiology 5: Interdisciplinarity in an Era of Rapid Environmental Change (open access)

Ethnobiology 5: Interdisciplinarity in an Era of Rapid Environmental Change

This article argues that ethnobiology is preadapted to be a scholarly umbrella for a number of disciplines that concern human-environment interactions, suggesting that two goals of Ethnobiology 5 are to bridge traditional academic boundaries in order to broaden the community of ethnobiologists, and to capitalize on and communicate the relevance of ethnobiological scholarship for solving problems related to contemporary environmental and cultural crises.
Date: January 21, 2013
Creator: Wolverton, Steven J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biomass burning drives atmospheric nutrient redistribution within forested peatlands in Borneo (open access)

Biomass burning drives atmospheric nutrient redistribution within forested peatlands in Borneo

This article quantifies the influence of fire on biogeochemical fluxes of nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur in a 12 ha forested peatland in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Date: August 4, 2016
Creator: Ponette-González, Alexandra G.; Curran, Lisa M.; Pittman, Alice M.; Carlson, Kimberly M.; Steele, Bethel G.; Ratnasari, Dessy et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature (open access)

Book Review: The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature

Book Review of "The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature" written by David George Haskell.
Date: August 16, 2016
Creator: Wolverton, Steven J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: The Pursuit of Ecotopia: Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional Societies for the Human Ecology of Our Modern World (open access)

Book Review: The Pursuit of Ecotopia: Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional Societies for the Human Ecology of Our Modern World

Book Review of "The Pursuit of Ecotopia: Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional Societies for the Human Ecology of Our Modern World" written by Eugene N. Anderson.
Date: August 17, 2010
Creator: Wolverton, Steven J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review:Quantitative Paleozoology (open access)

Book Review:Quantitative Paleozoology

Book Review of "Quantitative Paleozoology" written by R. Lee Lyman.
Date: August 3, 2010
Creator: Wolverton, Steven J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Detecting Stems in Dense and Homogeneous Forest Using Single-Scan TLS (open access)

Detecting Stems in Dense and Homogeneous Forest Using Single-Scan TLS

This article presents a new method to automatically detect stems in dense and homogeneous forest using single-scan terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) data.
Date: August 31, 2015
Creator: Xia, Shaobo; Wang, Cheng; Pan, Feifei; Xi, Xiaohuan; Zeng, Hongcheng & Liu, He
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: Winds from the North: Tewa Origins and Historical Anthropology (open access)

Book Review: Winds from the North: Tewa Origins and Historical Anthropology

Book Review of "Winds from the North: Tewa Origins and Historical Anthropology" written by Scott G. Ortman.
Date: November 13, 2014
Creator: Dombrosky, Jonathan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library