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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
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.
Voting With Your Hands: Gis And Experiential Learning, Jeremy W. Donald
Voting With Your Hands: Gis And Experiential Learning, Jeremy W. Donald
Library Faculty Research
Experiential learning is a trend in liberal arts colleges. Students are increasingly asked to learn by tackling problems beyond the classroom, often in the context of the local community. This can mean knowing how to apply technology and quantitative data to analyze and understand a problem, and GIS is a powerful tool for place- and data-based analysis. In concert with the chairs of the Political Science and Sociology departments, the GIS librarian at Trinity University developed a plan for teaching GIS in a semester-long flagship course on election statistics and redistricting in Bexar county. Course design provided users with early …
Development As Destruction; Geographic Analysis Of Land Use Changes In Port Of Spain, Trinidad, Carla Waldron
Development As Destruction; Geographic Analysis Of Land Use Changes In Port Of Spain, Trinidad, Carla Waldron
Anthropology Theses
Trinidad and Tobago developed from an agricultural colony to a nation whose main economic driving forces include oil, natural gas and the service industries. This study seeks to examine how the changes in the economy and industrial sectors affected changes in the land use of the capital city of Port of Spain. Specifically it seeks to discover how the current service centred industrial boom has affected the urban land use of each district of Port of Spain and compares current trends with those in the past using city boundary, population, employment, housing to support land use data. Findings demonstrate that …
Mapalester:Powerful, East-To-Use Gis Software Under Development, Brent Hecht
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.
South Carolina Naval Wreck Survey Completed, James D. Spirek, Christopher F. Amer
South Carolina Naval Wreck Survey Completed, James D. Spirek, Christopher F. Amer
Faculty & Staff Publications
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Calibration Of Land Use Change Drivers In Support Of Dynamic Urban Growth Modeling, Woonsup Choi, Zhanli Sun
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 …
An Automated Gis Method For Modeling Relative Wave Exposure Within Complex Reef-Island Systems: A Case Study Of The Great Barrier Reef, Marjetta L. Puotinen
An Automated Gis Method For Modeling Relative Wave Exposure Within Complex Reef-Island Systems: A Case Study Of The Great Barrier Reef, Marjetta L. Puotinen
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
Patterns of wave energy play a significant role in shaping the long-term structure of coral reef communities worldwide. For example, sections of reefs have been shown to vary greatly in morphology (dominant size class, growth form) as coral colonies adapt in response to local-scale differences in the wave heights typically experienced. These differences result in zonation (crest, lagoon, and slope), producing characteristic growth forms and species assemblages that vary in their vulnerability to damage from waves (Done 1993). Those communities experiencing the greatest typical wave energy align themselves parallel to the water flow, adopt stream-lined forms and are usually smaller …
Wealth And Deprivation In The Delta: A Landscape Of Subsidization, Jacqueline Warren Mills
Wealth And Deprivation In The Delta: A Landscape Of Subsidization, Jacqueline Warren Mills
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The Mississippi Delta, as defined by the Delta Regional Authority (DRA), is an area of historical and present deprivation. Persistent poverty, lackluster economic development opportunities, and the associated ills of this environment exist alongside large-scale, subsidized agriculture. These federal subsidy payments are criticized for increasing the wealth of corporate enterprises rather than stabilizing the family farmer for whom they were created. This dissertation examines the geography of agristructure, subsidies, and socio-economic characteristics in the Delta with the purpose of identifying spatial relationships among these three variables. Drawing from the Goldschmidt Hypothesis, this research proposes that areas of large-scale agristructure will …
The Diffusion Of Gis In Journalism, Ben S. Wasike
The Diffusion Of Gis In Journalism, Ben S. Wasike
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The purposes of this study were to determine the likelihood of reporters to adopt Geographical Information Systems and to predict the future of the diffusion of GIS in the journalism industry using the diffusion of innovations theory. The study used two data collection methods: in-depth interviews and a Web survey. The indepth-interviews revealed factors that will influence the diffusion of GIS, including the availability of map data, competition between media agencies, the ease of getting management to buy GIS once its functionality has been demonstrated to them, and the general use of secondary GIS products. The Web survey showed that …