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Detecting tree species with Landsat imagery Monday, May 9, 2016 - 16:40 How has the composition of forests in Vermont changed over the past 30 years, and how will it change in the next 30? Can we detect these changes using Landsat imagery? And if we can, what implications does this have for land cover change analyses worldwide? UVM Research Assistant Professor and Forest Service Scientist Jennifer Pontius, UVM PhD student David Gudex-Cross, and I are using a novel technique to assign species-level classifications to the Northern Forest region using Landsat satellite imagery. Landsat imagery has 30m x 30m pixels, which means that any individual tree is...
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Time to Accelerate: Moving Technology by Looking at Innovation Systems Monday, May 2, 2016 - 14:42 As a Masters student studying Sustainable Business and Innovation, I tend to have more of a policy and social sciences perspective compared to my other student fellows. I see this as a complement to their important work. Many of those engaged with ESIP are interested in evolving methods and technologies to best provide earth science data and tackle the vital issues of today. This goal resonates with my recent research on how to help accelerate technological innovation. Thus far, a few papers stand out for their systems-thinking based analysis -- cited below....
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Proposed Earth Science Data Analytics Definition Tuesday, April 19, 2016 - 17:06 IntroductionEarth Science Data Analytics encapsulates the processes and workflows useful for processing data specifically from the perspective of scientific needs. Data Analytics definitions found in the literature are based on problems solved in the business world, characterized by having finite inputs, constraints, and well defined solution sets. Analyzing heterogeneous Earth science data take on very different methods and results orientation. Specifically, Earth science data analytics involves problems that are solved utilizing a vast number of combinations of inputs, applied...
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New Partnership Applications Posted - Spring 2016 Class Friday, April 15, 2016 - 11:37 The Partnership Committee has posted four new member applications for the 30-day review period. We have one Type-II (research center), three Type-III (applications), and one Type V (in-kind partnership) member-applications this round. The new applications are from:
To review the...
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