Program:

• GAM - 5 Year Program Plan
• GAM Fact Sheet
  

Fact Sheets:

• Analyzing Land Use Change in Urban Environments
• High-Resolution Land Use and Land Cover Mapping
• National Land Cover Dataset
• Natural Hazards Support System (NHSS)

Publications:

• 2007
• Bernknopf, R.L., Hearn, P.P., Wein, A., and Strong, D., 2007, The Effect of Scientific and Socioeconomic Uncertainty on A Natural Hazards Policy Choice, Proceedings of the International Congress on Modeling and Simulation 10-13 December 2007, 7 pp.



• Betancourt, J.L., M.D. Schwartz, D.D. Breshears, C.A. Brewer, G Frazer, J.E. Gross, S.J. Mazer, B.C. Reed, B.E. Wilson, 2007. Evolving Plans for a USA-National Phenology Network (USA-NPN). EOS Transactions, Vol. 88, No. 19, p. 211



• Giri, C., Pengra, B., Zhu, Z., Singh, A., Tieszen, L.L., 2007, Monitoring mangrove forest dynamics of the Sundarbans in Bangladesh and India using multi-temporal satellite data from 1973 to 2000: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, In Press, Corrected Proof. doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2006.12.019.



• Hogan, D.M. and Walbridge, M.R., 2007, Best Management Practices for Nutrient and Sediment Retention in Urban Stormwater Runoff, Journal of Environmental Quality v. 36, p. 386-395.



• Hogan, D.M. and Walbridge, M. R. 2007, Urbanization and Nutrient Retention in Freshwater Riparian Wetlands, Ecological Applications, 17(4), p. 1142-1155.



• Ji, L. and Peters, A.J., 2007, Performance evaluation of spectral vegetation indices using a statistical sensitivity function: Remote Sensing of Environment, 106(1):59-65.



• Nordt, L., Von Fisher, J., and Tieszen, L.L., 2007, Late Quaternary temperature record from buried soils of the North American Great Plains: Geology 35(2):159-162, doi: 10.1130/G23345A.1.



• Norman, Laura M., 2007. United States-Mexican Border Watershed Assessment: Modeling Nonpoint Source Pollution in Ambos Nogales, Journal of Borderland Studies 22 (1): 20 p.



• Tan, Z., Lal, R., Ownes, L., and Izaurralde, R.C., 2007, Distribution of heavy and light fractions of soil organic carbon as related to land uses and tillage practice: Soil & Tillage Research 92:53-59.



• Tappan, G. and McGahuey, M., 2007, Tracking environmental dynamics and agricultural intensification in southern Mali: Agricultural Systems, 94:38-51, doi:10.1016/j.agsy.2005.07.011.



• Von Fischer, J., Tieszen, L.L., and Schimel, D., 2007, Temperature and precipitation controls of C3 vs C4 productivity across North American grasslands from carbon isotope composition of soil organic matter: Global Change Biology (in press).



• Wylie, B.K., Fosnight, E.A., Gilmanov, T.G., Frank, A.B., Morgan, J.A., Haferkamp, M.R., and Meyers, T.P., 2007, Adaptive data-driven models for estimating carbon fluxes in the Northern Great Plains: Remote Sensing of Environment, 106:399-413.



• Xue, Y.-J., Yue-Ming, H., Shuguang, L., Jing-Feng, Y., Qi-Chang, C., and Shi-Tai, B., 2007, "Improving Land Resource Evaluation using Fuzzy Neural Network Ensembles": Pedosphere,17(4): 429-435, doi:10.1016/S1002-0160(07)60052-6.



• Yuan, W., Liu, S., Zhou, G., Zhou, G., Tieszen, L.L., Baldocci, D., Berhhofer, C., Gholz, H., Goldstein, A.H., Goulden, M.L., Hollinger, D.Y., Hu, Y., Law, B.E., Stoy, P.C., Vesala, T., Wofsy, S.C., and other AmeriFlux collaborators, 2007, Deriving a light use efficiency model from eddy covariance flux data for predicting daily gross primary production across biomes: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology,143:189-207. doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2006.12.001.



• Zhang, L., Wylie, B.W., Loveland, T., Fosnight, E. A., Tieszen, L.L., Ji, L., and Gilmanov, T., 2007, Evaluation and comparison of gross primary production estimates for the Northern Great Plains grasslands: Remote Sensing of Environment, 106:173-189.

• 2006
• Bridgham, S.D., Patrick Megonigal, J., Keller, J.K., Bliss, N.B., and Trettin, C., 2006, The Carbon Balance of North American Wetlands, Wetlands. 2006 Dec 1, 26(4):889-916.



• Bernknopf, R.L., and Hearn, P.P., 2006, Developing Tools to Improve the Application of Science Information to Inform Earthquake Risk Mitigation Decisions in the City of Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee, Geological Society of America, Geology and Society Division Newsletter, November 2006, 5pp.



• Eidenshink, J. C. 2006. A 16-year time series of Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) satellite data of the conterminous United States and Alaska. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, Falls Church, Virginia, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vol. 72, No. 9, September 2006, pp. 1027-1035.



• Eidenshink, Jeff, 2006. Dissemination of LANDFIRE Prototype Project Data, Chapter 14 in The LANDFIRE Prototype Project: nationally consistent and locally relevant geospatial data for wildland fire management, General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-175 (Ed. C. Frame and M. Rollins). Fort Collins: US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 416 pages.



• Gilmanov, T.G., Svejcar, T.J., Johnson, D.A., Angell, R.F., Saliendra, N.Z., and Wylie, B.K., 2006, Long-term dynamics of production, respiration, and net CO2 exchange in two Sagebrush-Steppe ecosystems: Rangeland Ecology & Management, 59:585-599.



• Hester, David J., 2006, Analyzing Albuquerque's Landscape Evolution in the 20th and 21st Centuries, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1726: Rates, Trends, Causes and Consequences of Urban Land-Use Change in the United States, pg. 113-128, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia.



• Liu, J., Liu, S., and Loveland, T.R., 2006, Temporal evolution of carbon budgets of the Appalachian forests in the U.S. from 1972 to 2000: Forest Ecology and Management, 222(1-3):191-201.



• Martin, Paul E., Hester, David J., Sherrouse, Ben C. and Feller, Mark R., 2006, Landscape Change and Socioeconomic Trends for the Austin, Texas Region, Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) Map Book, Volume 21, pg. 92, Redlands, California.



• Norman, Laura M., Donelson, Angela, Pfeifer, Edwin, and Lam, Alven H., 2006. Colonia Development and Land Use Change in Ambos Nogales, United States-Mexican Border: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 2006-1112. http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1112



• Parcher, J.W., 2006, Comparing impervious-cover densities on the basis of land-use types between sister cities on the United States/Mexico border, in Acevedo, W., Taylor, J.L., Hester, D.J., Mladinich, C.S., and Glavac, S. eds., Rates, trends, causes, and consequences of urban land-use change in the United States. USGS Professional Paper 1726, p. 79-85.



• Poore, B.S. and Chrisman, N.R., 2006, Order from Noise: Toward a Social Theory of Geographic Information, Annals of Association of American Geographers, 96(3) p. 508-523.



• Reed, B.C., 2006, Trend Analysis of Time-Series Phenology of North America Derived from Satellite Data, GIScience & Remote Sensing, Vol. 43, No. 1, 24-38.



• Sherrouse, Ben C. and Hester, David J., 2006, Multi-Scalar Human Migration Analysis of the Austin-Round Rock Economic Area's Urban Counties, Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) 2006 Conference Proceedings, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.



• Stibig, H.-J., Belward, A.S., Roy, P.S., Rosalina-Wasrin, U., Agrawal, S., Joshi, P.K., Beuchle, R., Fritz, S., Mubareka, S. and Giri, C., 2006, A land cover map of South and Southeast Asia derived from SPOT-VEGETATION data: Journal of Biogeography (OnlineEarly Articles). doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2006.01637.x



• Tan, Z., R. Lal, and S. Liu., 2006, Using experimental and geospatial data to estimate regional carbon sequestration potential under no-till management: Soil Science, 171(12):950-959, doi:10.1097/01.ss.0000235845.17826.10.



• Tan, Z., Liu, S., Johnston, C.A., Liu, J., and Tieszen, L.L., 2006, Analysis of ecosystem controls on soil carbon source-sink relationships in the northwest Great Plains: Global Biogeochem, Cycles. 20, GB4012, doi:10.1029/2005GB002610.



• Tang, X.L., Liu, S.G., Zhou, G.Y., Zhang, D.Q., and Zhou, C.Y, 2006, Soil-Atmospheric Exchange of CO2, CH4, and N2O in Three Subtropical Forest Ecosystems in Southern China: Global Change Biology, 12(3):546-560.



• Tang, X.L., Zhou, G.Y., Liu, S.G., Zhang, D.Q., Liu, S.Z., Li,J., and Zhou, C.Y., 2006, Dependence of Soil Respiration on Soil Temperature and Soil Moisture in Successional Forests in Southern China: Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 48(6):654-663.



• Varanka, D., 2006. General trends regarding aggregate materials For urban development, with a suggested method for the analysis of aggregates distribution, in Acevedo, W., Taylor, J.L., Hester, D.J., Mladinich, C.S., and Glavac, S. eds., Rates, trends, causes, and consequences of urban land-use change in the United States. USGS Professional Paper 1726, 45-54.



• Vierling, L. A., Fersdahl, M., Chen, X., Li, Z., and Zimmerman, P., 2006, The Short Wave Aerostat-Mounted Imager (SWAMI): A novel platform for acquiring remotely sensed data from a tethered balloon: Remote Sensing of Environment, 103(3):255-264.



• Vogelmann, J.E., Zhu, Z., Kost, J., Tolk, B, and Ohlen, D, 2006, Perspectives on LANDFIRE accuracy assessment, Chapter 13 in The LANDFIRE Prototype Project: nationally consistent and locally relevant geospatial data for wildland fire management, General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-175 (Ed. C. Frame and M. Rollins). Fort Collins: US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 416 pages.



• Zhu, Z, Vogelmann, J.E., Ohlen, D., Kost, J., Chen, X., and Tolk, B., 2006, Mapping cover types and structure stages of existing vegetation, Chapter 8 in General Technical Report (Ed. C. Frame and M. Rollins), Fort Collins: US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 416 pages.

• 2005
• Betancourt, J.L, M.D. Schwartz, D.D. Breshears, D.R. Cayan, M.D. Dettinger, D.W. Inouye, E. Post, and B. Reed, 2005. Implementing a U.S. National Phenology Network. EOS Transactions, Vol. 86, No. 51, pp. 539-541.



• Gallo, K., B. Reed, T. Owen, and J. Adegoke, 2005. Characteristics of Seasonal Vegetation Cover in the Conterminous USA, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, Vol. 71, No. 8, pp. 959-966.



• Gallo, K., L. Ji, B. Reed, J. Eidenshink, and J. Dwyer, 2005. Multi-platform comparisons of MODIS and AVHRR normalized difference vegetation index data. Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 99, No. 3, pp. 221-231.



• Giri, C., Zhu, Z. and Reed, B., 2005. A Comparative Analysis of the Global Land Cover 2000 and MODIS Land Cover Data Sets. Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 94, No. 1, pp. 123-132.



• Gilmanov, T., Tieszen, L.L., Wylie, B.K., Flanagan, L. B., Frank A.B., Haferkamp, M.R., Meyers, T.P., and Morgan, J.A., 2005, Integration of CO2 flux and remotely sensed data for primary production and ecosystem respiration analysis in the Northern Great Plains - Potential for quantitative spatial extrapolation: Global Ecology and Biogeography, 14(3):271-292.



• Giri, C., 2005, Global land cover mapping and characterization - Present situation and future research priorities: Geocarto International, 20(1):35-42.



• Giri, C. and Jenkins, C., 2005, Land Cover Mapping of Greater Mesoamerica Using MODIS Data: Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, 31(4):274-282.



• Giri, C., Zhu, Z., and Reed, B., 2005. A comparative analysis of the Global Land Cover 2000 and MODIS land cover data sets: Remote Sensing of Environment, 94(1):123-132.



• Hogan, D.M., 2005, The Effects of Urbanization on Wetland Ecosystem Structure and Function - A Case Study of Freshwater Riparian Wetlands in Fairfax County, Virginia, Ph.D. Dissertation, George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.



• Liu, J., Chen, J.M., Price, D.T., and Liu, S., 2005, NCWin - A Component Object Model (COM) for processing and visualizing NetCDF data: The Cartographic Journal, 42(1):69-77.



• Liu, J., Price, D.T., and Chen, J.M., 2005, Nitrogen controls on ecosystem carbon sequestration, A model implementation and application to Saskatchewan, Canada: Ecological Modelling,186(2):178-195.



• Liu, J., Shao, G., Zhu, H., and Liu, S., 2005, A neural network approach for enhancing information extraction from multispectral image data: Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, 31(6):432-438.



• Norman, Laura Margaret, 2005. Modeling Land Use Change and Associate Water Quality Impacts in the Ambos Nogales Watershed, U.S.-Mexico Border. Dissertation. University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. 216 p.



• Reij, C., Tappan, G., and Belemvire, A., 2005, Changing land management practices and vegetation on the Central Plateau of Burkina Faso (1968-2002): Journal of Arid Environments, 63(3):642-659.



• Ricotta, C., Reed, B.C., and Tieszen, L.L., 2005, The role of C3 and C4 grasses to interannual variability in remotely sensed ecosystem performance over the US Great Plains: International Journal of Remote Sensing, 24(22):4421-4431.



• Tan, Z.X. and Lal, R., 2005, Carbon Sequestration Potential Estimates With Changes in Land Use and Tillage Practice in Ohio, USA: Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, 111(1-4):140-152.



• Tan, Z. X., Liu, S. G., Johnston, C. A., Loveland, T. R., Tieszen, L. L., Liu, J. X., and Kurtz, R., 2005, Soil organic carbon dynamics as related to land use history in the northwestern Great Plains: Global Biogeochemical Cycles 19(3):GB3011. doi: 10.1029/2005GB002536.



• Wylie, B.K., Gilmanov, T.G., Stensaas, S.L., Saliendra, N.Z., Johnson, D.A., Akshalov, K., Frank, A.B., Zhang, L., Doyle, R.F., Laca, E.A., and Demment, M.W., 2005, Scaling up of Site Carbon Dynamics to Predict the Carbon Dynamics in Kazakhstan, Central Asia, XX International Grassland Congress: Offered Papers.

• 2004
• Claggett, P.R., Jantz, C.A.,Goetz, S.J., and Bisland, C., 2004, Assessing Development Pressure in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed: An Evaluation of Two Land-Use Change Models, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Vol. 94 (1-3): 129-146.



• Friesen, Beverly A., Hester, David J., and Casey, Kathleen A., 2004, Edwards Plateau: Analysis of Land Cover Trends, 2004 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARRS) Proceedings, Anchorage, Alaska



• Gallo, K., Ji, L., Reed, B., Dwyer, J., Eidenshink. J., 2004. Comparison of MODIS and AVHRR 16-day normalized difference vegetation index composite data. Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L07502, doi:10.1029/2003GL019385.



• Gallo, K.P., C.D. Elvidge, L. Yang, B.C. Reed, 2004. Trends in night-time city lights and vegetation indices associated with urbanization within the conterminous USA. International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 25, No. 10, pp 2003-2007



• Hogan, D.M., Jordan, T., and Walbridge, M.R., 2004, Phosphorus Retention and Soil Organic Carbon in Restored and Natural Freshwater Wetlands, Wetlands 24(3): 573-585.



• Lemeshewsky, G.P., 2004, Visual Enhancement Of Unmixed Multispectral Imagery Using Adaptive Smoothing, Visual Information Processing XIII, Z. Rahman, Z., Schowengerdt, R.A., and Reichenbach, S., Eds., Proc. SPIE, v. 5438, p 252-262.



• Norman, Laura M., Guertin, D. Phillip, Hernández, David Peña, Barnett, Alberto Suàrez and Ashton-Reis, Kelly, 2004, Binational Digital Soils Map of the Ambos Nogales Watershed, Southern Arizona and Northern Sonora, Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report: OF 2004-1335. http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1335/



• Slonecker, E.T. and Tilley, J.S., 2004, An Evaluation of the Individual Components and Accuracies Associated with the Determination of Impervious Area, GIScience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 41, No. 1, p. 165-184.

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