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GIScCE Funded Research

Current Projects
ProjectFunded ByPIDuration
Earth Science Data Records of Global Forest Cover Change
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NASA/UMD Townsend (UMD) 2008-2013
Land abandonment in Russia: understanding the recent trends and assessing future vulnerability and adaptation to changing climate and population dynamics
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NASA/Virginia Tech Debeurs (Virginia Tech) 2009-2013
Changing Field Sizes of the Conterminous United States, a Decennial Landsat Assessment
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NASA D. Roy 2011-2014
MODIS Burned Area Maintenance, Improvement and Validation
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NASA/UMD Justice (UMD) 2011-2014
MODIS-Landsat data fusion for high spatial resolution multi-annual wall to wall burned area mapping of the conterminous United States
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NASA/UMD Boschetti (UMD) 2011-2014
Shifting Fire Regimes of the US, Australia and Brazilian Amazonia: The Roles of Climate Change, Land Use and Mitigation Efforts
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NASA M. Cochrane 2011-2013

Past Projects
ProjectFunded ByPIDuration
Enhanced Land Cover & Land Cover Change Products from MODIS
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NASA/UMD Justice (UMD) 2005-2007
SDSU/EROS Initial Coordination for the GIScCE Collaborative Research
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USGS M. Hansen 2005-2006
Support of NASA MODIS by USDA Foreign Agricultural Services
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NASA/UMD Justice (UMD) 2005-2006
A Daily BRDF/Albedo Algorithm for MODIS Direct Broadcast Sites
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NASA/BU Schaaft (BU) 2005-2007
MODIS 250 Meter Continuous Cover Mapping of Africa
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FAO M. Hansen 2005-2006
A 0.05 Degree Global Climate/Interdisciplinary Long Term Data Set from AVHRR, MODIS, and VIIR Instruments
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NASA/UMD Vermote (UMD) 2005-2008
Landscape Ecology and Mapping of Ehrlichial Pathogens
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NIH M. Wimberly 2005-2008
Refinement and Maintenance of the MODIS Fire Products Suite (ROY NASA UMD - Z605402)
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NASA/UMD Justice (UMD) 2005-2007
The Application of NASA EOS Data in the Evaluation of a Regional Atmospheric Transport and Radiative Forcing Modeling Activity in Southern Africa
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NASA/UVA Swap (UVA) 2005-2007
Congo Basin Forest Monitoring Using Satellites for CARPE 2
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NASA/USAID/UMD Justice (UMD) 2006-2008
Integrating MODIS and VIIRS NPP Observations into the USDA FAS Decision System
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NASA/USDA/UMD Justice (UMD) 2006-2009
Establishing a Global Forest Change Monitoring System Using Multi-Resolution and Multi-Temporal Remotely Sensed Data Sets
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NASA M. Hansen 2006-2010
Land Cover/Land Use Change Effects on Surface Water: Integrated MODIS and Sea WiFS Assessment of the Dnieper and Don River Basins and their Reservoirs
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NASA/UNL Gitelson (U Nebraska) 2006-2010
Students Internships in Earth Observation Forest Monitoring Science
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USGS M. Hansen 2006-2006
The Synergism of Fire, Forest Fragmentation and Selective Logging in the Brazilian Amazon
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NASA/MSU M. Cochrane 2006-2006
Development and Testing of a Landscape Simulator for Modeling Disturbance-Vegetation Interactions
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USDA Forest Service M. Wimberly 2006-2007
High-Resolution Satellite Imagery for Tectonic Deformation Modeling
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USGS C. Zhang 2006-2008
US Land Cover/Land Use Change, Albedo and Radiative Forcing: Past and Potential Climate Implications
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NASA D. Roy 2006-2009
Using NASA's Invasive Species Forecasting System to Support National Park Service Decisions on Fire Management Activities and Invasive Plant Species
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NASA/GSFC D. Roy 2006-2008
Fuel Treatment Effectiveness in the United States
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DOI(JFSP)/USGS M. Cochrane 2006-2012
An Update of the Liberian National Deforestation Map
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Conservation International M. Hansen 2006-2007
Evaluating the Effects of Institutional Change on Regional Hydrometeorology: Assessing the Vulnerability of the Eurasian Semi-Arid Grain Belt
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NASA G. Henebry 2006-2009
Developing Water Resource Monitoring Products for the LEWS (Livestock Early Warning System) Project
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USGS M. Hansen 2007-2010
NEON RFI Evaluation Panel
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NSF/EROS G. Henebry 2007-2008
Annual Updating of the Spatial Extent of Feedstock Agriculture (DOE)
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North Central Center M. Hansen 2007-2008
Annual Updating of the Spatial Extent of Feedstock Agriculture (DOT)
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North Central Center M. Hansen 2007-2012
Biodiversity Implications of Forest Disturbance and Related Landscape Dynamics in the Brazilian Amazon
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NASA M. Cochrane 2007-2012
Block sample generation in support of FAO Forest Resource Assessment 2010
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FAO M. Hansen 2007-2008
Monitoring the Conditions of Unpaved Roads with Remote Sensing and other Technology
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DOT C. Zhang 2007-2009
Landscape Analysis of Invasive Plant Response to Timber Harvest on the Black Hills National Forest
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USDA Forest Service M. Wimberly 2007-2011
Satellite-derived rainfall estimates (TRMM products) used for hydrological predictions of the Congo River flow
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NSF/START () 2007-2008
Developing Small Hydropower Assessments for the SWERA Project
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USGS M. Hansen 2007-2008
Land cover dynamics, regional hydrometeorology, and the vulnerability of rain-fed agriculture to climate change under scenarios of extensive cultivation of biofuel
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NASA/SDSMT Capehart (SDSMT) 2007-2010
Land Cover Land Use Change and Soil Organic Carbon Under Climate Variability in Semi-Arid to Sub-Humid West African Sahel (1975-2050)
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NASA D. Roy 2007-2010
Using MODIS and Landsat Data to Advance Regional, High Spatial Resolution Change Monitoring for the Humid Tropical Forests of Congo Basin - Lindquist fellowship
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NASA M. Hansen 2007-2009
Development of a Geospatial Infrastructure to Support Sustainable Feedstock Production (DOE)
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North Central Center M. Wimberly 2007-2011
Estimating Carbon Release from Fires in Alaska
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USGS M. Hansen 2008-2009
Spatial Epidemiology of Obesity in Rural Landscapes
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USDA NRI M. Wimberly 2008-2012
Symposium on the Landscape Ecology of Infectious Disease
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NIH M. Wimberly 2008-2009
Integrating MODIS crop characterization capabilities with AWiFS and agricultural survey data to improve accuracy and timeliness of national crop coverage
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NASA M. Hansen 2008-2011
Web Enabled Landsat Data (WELD) - a consistent seamless near real time MODIS-Landsat data fusion for the terrestrial user
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NASA D. Roy 2008-2013
Block Sample Generation in Support of FAO Forest Resource Assessment 2010 (FRAII)
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FAO/Heinz Center M. Hansen 2008-2008
Developing a Global Burned Area ESDR
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NASA/UMD Justice (UMD) 2008-2010
Producing composite imagery and forest cover and change characterizations for the humid tropics - a contribution to the MDGLS activity
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NASA M. Hansen 2008-2010
An Integrated System for the Epidemiological Application of Earth Observation Technolgies
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NIH M. Wimberly 2008-2012
Applied Remote Sensing for Conservation Monitoring - Barber fellowship
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NASA M. Cochrane 2008-2011
CARPE II - forest monitoring in the Congo Basin
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NASA/UMD Alstat (UMD) 2009-2012
Synergistic analyses of data from active and passive sensors to assess relationships between spatial heterogeneity of tropical forest structure and biodiversity
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NASA G. Henebry 2009-2012
Reconciliation of the MODIS active fire and burned product for improved emission and uncertainty estimation
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NASA/UMD Boschetti (UMD) 2009-2010
Hydrological Response to Land Cover and Land Use Change in the Congo Basin (Munzimi fellowship)
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NASA M. Hansen 2009-2012