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
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
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
Meta-discoveries from a synthesis of satellite-based land-cover mapping research (open access)

Meta-discoveries from a synthesis of satellite-based land-cover mapping research

This article provides a spatialized database of scientific literature in English about land-cover mapping.
Date: June 19, 2014
Creator: Yu, Le; Liang, Lu; Wang, Jie; Zhao, Yuanyuan; Cheng, Qu; Hu, Luanyun et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A China data set of soil properties for land surface modeling (open access)

A China data set of soil properties for land surface modeling

This article describes the use of a comprehensive 30x30 arc-second resolution gridded soil characteristics data set of China for land surface modeling.
Date: March 12, 2013
Creator: Shangguan, Wei; Dai, Yongjiu; Liu, Baoyuan; Zhu, Axing; Duan, Qingyun; Wu, Lizong et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
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
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
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
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