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A Geospatial Modeling Framework For Assessing Biofuels-Related Land-Use And Land-Cover Change, Ruopu Li, Qingfeng (Gene) Guan, James W. Merchant
A Geospatial Modeling Framework For Assessing Biofuels-Related Land-Use And Land-Cover Change, Ruopu Li, Qingfeng (Gene) Guan, James W. Merchant
School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications
With the increasing biofuel demands in recent years, the cultivated lands for biofuel crops, i.e., corn and soybeans, the major sources of ethanol and biodiesel, have been greatly expanding in the northern Great Plains states of the United States. Simulating the spatio-temporal dynamics of biofuel croplands can provide critical information required for assessing the impacts of land-use change on wildlife conservation and water quality. But, yearly agricultural practices such as crop rotations often complicate the spatially explicit modeling of specific crops’ expansion. Our research focused on developing a geospatial modeling framework that is able to distinguish long-term, regional changes in …