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Remotely Sensed Data To Map Forest Age Class By Cover Type In East Texas, Daniel Unger, I-Kuai Hung, Jeffrey M. Williams, James Kroll, Dean W. Coble, Jason Grogan

Faculty Publications

• Remote sensing in conjunction with ground truthing, can accurately quantify forest composition and age distributions in East Texas.
• Method uses standardized and readily available data available to the general public.
• Method was shown to be effective in terms of time and cost.

Mapalester:Powerful, East-To-Use Gis Software Under Development, Brent Hecht

Geography Honors Projects

Many non-profits and K-12 schools would benefit from a GIS, but cannot afford expensvie GIS software. I have worked on developing a new GIS software package aimed at these and other organizations and individuals with small budgets. The software is particularly focused on ease of use and centralization, especially with regard to spaital analysis operations and date retrieval/organization. In the paper, I discuss my progress on the software, as well as the major problems I have encountered in developing it.

Calibration Of Land Use Change Drivers In Support Of Dynamic Urban Growth Modeling, Woonsup Choi, Zhanli Sun

Geography Faculty Articles

The Land use Evolution and impact Assessment Model (LEAM) is a cellular urban dynamics model designed to simulate changing landscapes over space and time. One of the challenging problems in the LEAM model is calibrating the model results, and this study presents a step to calibration. The probability of land use change in each cell is determined by various factors including a cell’s proximity to development attractors, which are physical features that promote residential and commercial developments. This study presents a way to calculate a cell’s proximity to development attractors and converting the proximity to relative probability to help with …