Economic impacts of climate change on agriculture: A comparison of process-based and statistical yield models

07 Sep 2017 | Contributor(s): Frances C Moore, Uris Lantz C Baldos, Tom Hertel

A large number of studies have been published examining the implications of climate change for agricultural productivity that, broadly speaking, can be divided into process-based modeling and statistical approaches. Despite a general perception that results from these methods differ...

PyMapLib for Rapid Development of Geospatial Data Analysis Tools

02 Aug 2016 | Publications | Contributor(s): Wei Wan, Lan Zhao, Jaewoo Shin, Shandian Zhe, Carol Song

This is the presentation at CyberGIS 2016 conference introducing pyMapLib, a generic Python mapping library developed as part of the NSF funded GABBS project.

Web Leaflet Map Tool

07 May 2016 | Tools | Contributor(s): Wei Wan

Web Map Tool Using Leaflet and Python

Remote Sensing Analysis on HUBzero

16 Sep 2015 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Larry Biehl

MultiSpec is a remote sensing analysis tool being developed on MyGeoHub.org as part of the Geospatial Analysis Building Blocks (GABBs) NSF-funded and the IndianaView/AmericaView USGS-funded projects. The tool has been adapted from the desktop Macintosh and Windows versions...

The GABBs Report - Building Geospatial Capability in HUBzero

15 Sep 2015 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Carol Song

Geospatial data are present everywhere today with the proliferation of location-aware computing devices. This is especially true in the scientific community where large amounts of data are driving research and education activities in many domains. Collaboration over geospatial data, for example,...

LANDPARAM

20 Jul 2015 | Tools | Contributor(s): Jing Liu, Nelson Benjamin Villoria (contributor)

A tool to aggregate cropland supply and land transformation elasticities

RHSeg

30 Jun 2015 | Tools | Contributor(s): Wei Wan (contributor), Lexie Yang (contributor)

The Recursive Hierarchical Image Segmentation (RHSEG) software package integrated with GeoHub release version 1.59

Geospatial Modeler

08 Aug 2015 | Tools | Contributor(s): Wei Wan

A HUBzero Open Geospatial Modeler Tool for Remote Sensing and Geospatial Data Analysis

Active Learning Modeler Tool

17 Mar 2015 | Tools | Contributor(s): Wei Wan, Lexie Yang (contributor), Rajesh Kalyanam (contributor), Christopher Panza (contributor)

Graphic modeling and view for active learning algorithms of remote sensing, integration with IData.

AgMIP GEOSHARE Tool with iData Integration Demo

06 Mar 2015 | Tools | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria, Joshua Elliott, Christoph Mí_ller, Jaewoo Shin, Christopher Panza, Lan Zhao

Aggregate yield shocks provided by the AgMIP's Global Gridded Crop Modeling Initiative (Ag-GRID) from their original 30x30 min resolution to any user specified level

MultiSpec

24 Oct 2014 | Tools | Contributor(s): Larry Biehl, Abdur Rahman Maud, Wei-Kang Hsu, Tsung Tai Yeh

Image processing application to display and analyze geospatial images

Active Learning Tool

04 Feb 2015 | Tools | Contributor(s): Lexie Yang, wanwei

A Demo for "Advance Active Learning Algorithms for Robust Multi-Sensor Data Analysis"

Presentation of GABBs at Brown Dog Workshop

09 Sep 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Carol Song

This is a presentation given at the first Brown Dog user workshop, Urbana, IL, July 2014.

Market-mediated environmental impacts of biofuels

31 Jul 2014 | Publications | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel, Wallace E. Tyner

This paper surveys the evidence on market-mediated environmental impacts of biofuels, with special attention to the indirect greenhouse gas emissions stemming from land cover change in the wake of increased demand for biofuel feedstocks. We find clear evidence that market mediated land use...

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,...

Land, Environment and Climate: Contributing to the Global Public Good

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

This paper discusses global public goods related to the world's land resources, their current provision and likely future provision, their potential impacts on the world's poorest households, as well as prospects for using foreign assistance to enhance these outcomes. Specifically, the...

AgMIP Tool: A GEOSHARE tool for aggregating outputs from the AgMIP's Global Gridded Crop Modeling Initiative (Ag-GRID)

09 Jul 2014 | Tools | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria, joshua elliott, Christoph Müller, Jaewoo Shin, Lan Zhao

Aggregate the yield shocks provided by the AgMIP project from their original 30x30 min resolution to any user specified level.

PEGASUS (Predicting Ecosystem Goods And Services Using Scenarios)

14 Jul 2014 | Tools | Contributor(s): Delphine, Navin Ramankutty, I Luk Kim, Rajesh Kalyanam

A GEOSHARE tool for conducting live simulations using PEGASUS (Predicting Ecosystem Goods And Services Using Scenarios)

U2U Overview Presentation

03 Aug 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm, Linda Prokopy

This PowerPoint presentation provides an overview of the Useful to Usable (U2U) research project. Last updated Nov. 1, 2011.

U2U Poster - July 2011

22 Jul 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm, Linda Prokopy

This poster provides a general overview of the Useful to Usable (U2U) project. Anyone on the U2U team is welcome to present this poster at conferences or other venues. This hi-resolution pdf is ready for priting a 3 ft. (H) by 4 ft. (W) poster.Thank you to our University of Wisconsin colleagues...