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Understanding The Dynamic Effects Of Flight Patterns On Land Use, Matthew Paskus
Understanding The Dynamic Effects Of Flight Patterns On Land Use, Matthew Paskus
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In recent years, airlines have introduced a new business model, shifting to smaller regional airports in order to reduce costs, while at the same time offering convenience for air travelers. This shift, while easing demand constraints at larger airports, will increase the number of flight segments above Puget Sound altering the land uses below each new segment. The airline industry is highly speculative, and the economic drivers associated with the airline industry are dynamic. It is projected that commercial jet traffic will increase annually between 2%-5% through 2050. The increase of jet aircraft traffic and recent residential growth are beginning …
Trail Counter Calibration: The Search For Influences In Sequoia And Kings Canyon National Parks, Thomas R. (Thomas Ryan) Laws
Trail Counter Calibration: The Search For Influences In Sequoia And Kings Canyon National Parks, Thomas R. (Thomas Ryan) Laws
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In National Parks across the country planners are currently experimenting with the use of automated counting devices as a means for estimating visitor use on trails. However, little is understood in regards to counter accuracy due to just recently becoming routinely used. Calibration as a result is becoming a standard practice to increase the accuracies of the data received. Even with this increase in use though, little research has been performed to better understand where calibration correction coefficient values should lie based on specific trail characteristics. This study contributes to the understanding of calibration and counter accuracy by using passive-infrared …
Italian Piazze: Models For Public Outdoor Space In Sustainable Communities, Mark K. (Mark Kevan) Pederson
Italian Piazze: Models For Public Outdoor Space In Sustainable Communities, Mark K. (Mark Kevan) Pederson
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Fundamental to the design of sustainable neighborhood spatial units, is an understanding of the relationship between sustainability, public outdoor space, and the production of social capital. Thoughtful and purposefully designed public outdoor space can act as a venue for the production of social capital essential for resilient and sustainable communities. The morphology of a public outdoor space plays a critical role in its success as effective infrastructure for the development of community social capital. This research is concerned with urban public outdoor space and the identification and analysis of the spatial and morphological features which maximize the social utility of …
Mapping Alpine Treeline With High Resolution Imagery And Lidar Data In North Cascades National Park, Washington, Cathi J. (Cathi Jones) Winings
Mapping Alpine Treeline With High Resolution Imagery And Lidar Data In North Cascades National Park, Washington, Cathi J. (Cathi Jones) Winings
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We evaluated several approaches for the automated detection and mapping of trees and treeline in an alpine environment. Using multiple remote sensing platforms and software programs, we evaluated both pixel-based and object-based classification approaches in combination with high-resolution multispectral imagery and LiDAR-derived tree height data. The study area in North Cascades National Park included over 10,000 hectares of some of the most rugged terrain in the conterminous U.S. Through the use of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), differences in illumination conditions created by steep slopes and tall trees were minimized. Data fusion of the multispectral imagery, NDVI, and LiDAR-derived …
The Wildland-Urban Interface In The Conterminous United States 2000-2010, Jacob P. (Jacob Paul) Tully
The Wildland-Urban Interface In The Conterminous United States 2000-2010, Jacob P. (Jacob Paul) Tully
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The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is an area where homes, structures, and human development are interspersed or adjacent to wildland fire fuels. While prior works have mapped the extent and character of the WUI, the release of recent datasets such at US Census 2010, as well as spatially explicit vegetation height data, now allows for an updated model for mapping the WUI across the conterminous United States (CONUS). In addition, logical iterative improvements in WUI mapping techniques are presented which incorporate existing methods with novel techniques to map the current extent of the WUI using new housing density, vegetation, administrative, hydrologic, …
The Spatial Manifestation Of Neoliberal Discourse: Mapping Chicago's Education Reform Debate, Sarah (Sarah Susan) Bell
The Spatial Manifestation Of Neoliberal Discourse: Mapping Chicago's Education Reform Debate, Sarah (Sarah Susan) Bell
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During the last decade, after thirty years of disinvestment in public education, the United States has rigorously implemented high stakes testing, the results of which have provided public school officials, politicians, and real estate developers with an identifiable pool of "failing" schools. This thesis focuses on the school choice debate as it plays out in Chicago's news media by exploring the city of Chicago's early implementation of school choice policy and by considering school choice policy as part of the larger neoliberal spatial project. The hegemonic naturalization of school spaces as "failures" or "successes" in Chicago has been perpetuated by …
Incipient Soil Development In The Recently Deglaciated Easton Foreland, Mt. Baker, Washington, Paul W. (Paul William) Whelan
Incipient Soil Development In The Recently Deglaciated Easton Foreland, Mt. Baker, Washington, Paul W. (Paul William) Whelan
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Glacial forelands are harsh environments where incipient pedogenesis provides the basis for vegetation establishment and succession. Myriad local factors make discerning major influences on this process difficult. The Easton foreland on Mt. Baker, Washington, was investigated, where till has been deposited over the last one-hundred years. Easton foreland soils were sampled for in situ characteristics and laboratory measures, creating a multi-variable dataset of quantitative and qualitative data. It was hypothesized that soil development, including organic matter content, carbon, nitrogen, the carbon to nitrogen ratio (C/N), and pH, would show a trend when compared to indicators of development: time, elevation, and …