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Advancing Land Change Modeling
People are constantly changing the land surface through construction, agriculture, energy production, and other activities. Changes both in how land is used by people (land use) …
Assessment of the NASA Applied Sciences Program
Remote sensing data and models from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are the basis for a wide spectrum of scientific research endeavors and are key inputs …
Contributions of Land Remote Sensing for Decisions About Food Security and Human Health
Land remote sensing: the use of space-based satellite technologies to obtain information on environmental variables such as land-use and land-covering combination with other types …
Fostering Transformative Research in the Geographical Sciences
The central purpose of all research is to create new knowledge. In the geographical sciences this is driven by a desire to create new knowledge about the relations between space, …
Advancing Land Change Modeling
People are constantly changing the land surface through construction, agriculture, energy production, and other activities. Changes both in how land is used by people (land use) …
Fostering Transformative Research in the Geographical Sciences
The central purpose of all research is to create new knowledge. In the geographical sciences this is driven by a desire to create new knowledge about the relations between space, …
Private-Public Sector Collaboration to Enhance Community Disaster Resilience
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 (9/11) on the United States prompted a rethinking of how the United States prepares for disasters. Federal policy documents written …
Learning to Think Spatially
Spatial thinking"e;a constructive combination of concepts of space, tools of representation, and processes of reasoning"e;uses space to structure problems, find answers, …
Understanding the Changing Planet
From the oceans to continental heartlands, human activities have altered the physical characteristics of Earth's surface. With Earth's population projected to peak at 8 to 12 …
Building Community Disaster Resilience Through Private-Public Collaboration
Natural disasters--including hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and floods--caused more than 220,000 deaths worldwide in the first half of 2010 and wreaked havoc on …
Contributions of Land Remote Sensing for Decisions About Food Security and Human Health
Land remote sensing: the use of space-based satellite technologies to obtain information on environmental variables such as land-use and land-covering combination with other types …
Assessment of the NASA Applied Sciences Program
Remote sensing data and models from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are the basis for a wide spectrum of scientific research endeavors and are key inputs …