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Detection And Measurement Of Water Stress In Vegetation Using Visible Spectrum Reflectance, Arthur Zygielbaum Dec 2009

Detection And Measurement Of Water Stress In Vegetation Using Visible Spectrum Reflectance, Arthur Zygielbaum

Department of Geography: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

At any scale, from a single microbe to the planet that nurtures us, water defines our place in the universe. It provides the hydraulic forces needed to give plants structure, and the medium enabling photosynthesis, the basis for most life on Earth, to occur. Knowledge of plant water status is vital to understanding the state or condition of vegetation, information which is essential to disciplines as diverse as agriculture, geography, and climatology. Non-destructive and remote sensing of plant water status allows the gathering of such information across wide geographic extents and over long periods of time. Monitoring vegetation remotely requires …


Breaking The Chains: A Dissection Of The Caribbean's Tourism Mirage, Megan Nellis Dec 2009

Breaking The Chains: A Dissection Of The Caribbean's Tourism Mirage, Megan Nellis

Social Sciences

No abstract provided.


Norumbega News, No.13 (Fall 2009), Osher Library Associates Oct 2009

Norumbega News, No.13 (Fall 2009), Osher Library Associates

Friends of OML, Occasional Publications

Issue No.13, Fall 2009

Osher Map Library and the Smith Center for Cartographic Education

Portland, Maine



The Climate Of Cities, Matthew J. Downing Sep 2009

The Climate Of Cities, Matthew J. Downing

Social Sciences

An overall survey of the factors involved in creating the climate of cities, how that climate differs from rural ones, and future implications of urban climates.


I Can See My House From Here: Five Cool Learning Activities Using Google Earth, R Philip Reynolds May 2009

I Can See My House From Here: Five Cool Learning Activities Using Google Earth, R Philip Reynolds

Librarian and Staff Presentations

Workshop introducing Google Earth to faculty members at Stephen F. Austin State University.


Norumbega News, No.12 (Spring 2009), Osher Library Associates Apr 2009

Norumbega News, No.12 (Spring 2009), Osher Library Associates

Friends of OML, Occasional Publications

Issue No.12, Spring 2009

Osher Map Library and the Smith Center for Cartographic Education

Portland, Maine