PyMapLib Tutorial Tool

30 Aug 2016 | Tools | Contributor(s): Jaewoo Shin

Step-by-step tutorial for new users of PyMapLib library

2016 GABBs Project Highlights

26 Feb 2017 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Carol Song

This is a document that highlights the new development  and engagement activities of the GABBs project in 2016. This DIBBs implementation project develops geospatial data analysis building blocks in the HUBzero Scientific Collaboration Platform to enable researchers and educators to create...

2017 GABBs Project Highlights

11 Feb 2018 | Publications | Contributor(s): Carol Song

This document highlights the GABBs project activities and accomplishments in 2017. GABBs is a National Science Foundation supported Data Infrastructure Building Blocks implementation project that has extended the HUBzero software stack with geospatial data and...

A review of global-local-global linkages in economic land-use/cover change models

04 May 2019 | Publications | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel, Thales A P West, Jan Börner, Nelson Benjamin Villoria

Global change drivers of land-use/cover change (LUCC) like population dynamics, economic development, and climate change are increasingly important to local sustainability studies, and can only be properly analyzed at fine-scales that capture local biophysical and socio-economic conditions. When...

An open source geospatial cyberinfrastructure for interdisciplinary collaboration and broader engagement

26 Oct 2017 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Carol Song

Solving complex global problems demands that researchers from different disciplines work together, and their analytical tools, models and datasets interoperate. This is especially true in the context of sustainability. For instance, multiple goals of the United Nations Sustainable Development...

Assessing the Impacts of Climate Mitigation Policies on Poverty in Developing Countries

31 Jul 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel

This is the presentation made to the African Agriculture GIS week conference.BioPrepared by Thomas Hertel with assistance from Zekarias Hussein, based on collaboration with Alla Golub, Ben Henderson, Pierre Gerber, Steve Rose and Brent SohngenCreditsFunding from the FAO and the Center for Global...

Assessing the Impacts of Climate Mitigation Policies on Poverty in Developing Countries

01 Aug 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel

This is the presentation made to the African Agriculture GIS week conference.BioPrepared by Thomas Hertel with assistance from Zekarias Hussein, based on collaboration with Alla Golub, Ben Henderson, Pierre Gerber, Steve Rose and Brent SohngenCreditsFunding from the FAO and the Center for Global...

Broadening Access to Geospatial Capabilities

06 Nov 2014 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Carol Song, Larry Biehl, Venkatesh Merwade, Nelson Benjamin Villoria

This is a presentation at HUBbub 2014

Broadening Access to Geospatial Capabilities

07 Nov 2014 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Carol Song

This is a presentation at Purdue GIS Day on November 7, 2014.

Cloud-enabling a Collaborative Research Platform: The GABBs Story

26 Oct 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Rajesh Kalyanam, Rob Campbell, Derrick Kearney, Leif Delgass, Larry Biehl, Lan Zhao, Carolyn A Ellis, Carol Song

Modern cyberinfrastructures typically involve tightly integrated compute, storage and web application resources. They also form the basis of science gateways, which add their own science-specific processing or visualization capabilities. While some science gateways are intended as the central...

Cyberinfrastructure for the collaborative development of U2U decision support tools

10 Nov 2016 | Publications | Contributor(s): Larry Biehl, Lan Zhao, Carol Song, Christopher Panza

This paper describes the use of cyberinfrastructure to create interactive applications as part of the Useful to Usable (U2U) project. These applications transform historical climate data, knowledge, and models into decision support tools for end users such as crop farmers, uni- versity Extension...

Demonstration of the Crop Calendar Prototype using PyMapLib

12 Feb 2017 | Animations | Contributor(s): Carol Song

This short video demonstrates the concept of a crop calendar tool. This is only an early prototype. Further development will be necessary to meet the user requirements.

Developing A Collaborative Environment for the Useful to Usable (U2U) Project

10 Nov 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Larry Biehl, Carol Song, Lan Zhao, Christopher Panza, Brian Raub, Luke Policinski

HUBzero is being used as a collaborative environment for the Useful to Usable (U2U) project funded by the USDA. U2U is an integrated research and extension project working to improve farm resilience and profitability in the North Central U.S. by transforming existing climate data into usable...

Developing A Collaborative Environment for Useful to Useable (U2U) Project

10 Nov 2014 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Larry Biehl, Carol Song, Lan Zhao, Christopher Panza, Brian Raub, Luke Policinski

HUBzero is being used as a collaborative environment for the Useful to Usable (U2U) project funded by the USDA. U2U is an integrated research and extension project working to improve farm resilience and profitability in the North Central U.S. by transforming existing climate data into usable...

Developing Open Source Geospatial Data Analysis Building Blocks Software

26 Oct 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): JIngbo Wu

This is an article published at Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research by Jingbo Wu describing his summer intern work as part of the GABBs project.

Energy prices will play an important role in determining global land use in the twenty first century

31 Jul 2014 | Publications | Contributor(s): Jevgenijs Steinbuks, Tom Hertel

Global land use research to date has focused on quantifying uncertainty effects of three major drivers affecting competition for land: the uncertainty in energy and climate policies affecting competition between food and biofuels, the uncertainty of climate impacts on agriculture and forestry,...

Evaluation Reports

18 Oct 2011 | Publications | Contributor(s): Whitney Meredith

An evaluation team perodically examines our progress towards defined project objectives. During year 1, three such evaluations are scheduled. As these are completed, the report will be added to this resource.

Flow Extent Viewer

21 Nov 2016 | Tools | Contributor(s): Jaewoo Shin

Flow Extent Viewer

GABBs - Reusable Geospatial Data Analysis Building Blocks for Science Gateways

30 May 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Lan Zhao, Carol Song, Rajesh Kalyanam, Larry Biehl, Rob Campbell, Leif Delgass, Derrick Kearney, Wei Wan, Jaewoo Shin, I Luk Kim, Carolyn A Ellis

Science gateways have gained wide adoption in recent years as an effective platform for a lower barrier entry to computational resources, research collaboration, dissemination of scientific data, applications and publications, online education, and community engagement. Although multiple portal...

GABBs Installation from Open-source Packages

26 Jul 2017 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Rajesh Kalyanam

This document contains instructions for installing the various GABBs components either onto a existing hub or in your own infrastructure from scratch.