Attaining Food and Environmental Security in an Era of Globalization

08 Sep 2017 | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel, Uris Lantz C Baldos

Attaining the twin goals of food and environmental security in the coming decades poses a significant sustainability challenge. This paper examines the food and environmental security implications of a range of policies affecting the global food economy and terrestrial ecosystems, first in the...

Land Use in the 21st Century: Contributing to the Global Public Good

08 Sep 2017 | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel

This paper focuses on the evolution of global public goods related to the world’s land resources over the course of the 21st century, their potential impacts on the world’s poorest households, as well as prospects for policy interventions aimed at enhancing these outcomes. It begins...

The power and pain of market-based carbon policies: a global application to greenhouse gases from ruminant livestock production

08 Sep 2017 | Contributor(s): Benjamin Henderson, Alla A Golub, Daniel Djauhari Pambudi, Tom Hertel, Cecile Godde, Mario Herrero, Oscar Cacho, Pierre J. Gerber

The objectives of this research are to assess the greenhouse gas mitigation potential of carbon policies applied to the ruminant livestock sector [inclusive of the major ruminant species—cattle (Bos Taurus and Bos indicus), sheep (Ovis aries), and goats (Capra hircus)]— with...

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...

iData Tutorial

22 Jul 2016 | Contributor(s): Abilene Thiele Concepcion Perez

*Note that the number before each step is the time on the YouTube video below where it shows how each step is done. Click on "View Resource" on the top right to watch the video.Start iData [0:05] Go to http://mygeohub.org/idata to load the iData application. It starts with...

Web Leaflet Map Tool

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

Web Map Tool Using Leaflet and Python

Data-driven Collaboration Environments - Integrating HUBzero and iRODS

15 Sep 2015 | Publications | Contributor(s): Rajesh Kalyanam

As part of an effort to establish a community-based data sharing environment, we previously developed a HUBzero-based web component, iData. Using the open-source data management software, iRODS, iData  provides hub users and tools with the ability to publish, manage, discover...

Climate Scenario Aggregator

10 Nov 2014 | Tools | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria, Joshua Elliott, Christoph Müller, Jaewoo Shin, Lan Zhao

Climate Scenario Aggregator

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

iData Cheat Sheet

19 Jun 2015 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Lan Zhao, Carol Song

This document is a quick note that guides new iData users through the steps of registering a hub account, creating a new dataset, uploading some files, and sharing with others.

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.

The role of international trade in managing food security risks from climate change

20 Mar 2015 | Publications | Contributor(s): Uris Lantz C Baldos, Tom Hertel

International trade plays an important role in facilitating global food security in the face of a changing climate. In considering this issue, it is useful to distinguish between two different time scales: inter-annual and inter-decadal. Inter-annual adjustments in international trade can play an...

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"

Climate change mitigation policies and poverty in developing countries

31 Jul 2014 | Publications | Contributor(s): Zekarias Hussein, Tom Hertel, Alla Golub

Mitigation of the potential impacts of climate change is one of the leading policy concerns of the 21st century. However, there continues to be heated debate about the nature, the content and, most importantly, the impact of the policy actions needed to limit greenhouse gas emissions. One...

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.

National Initiatives Gauge Farmer Perceptions of Climate Change (press release)

05 Mar 2013 | Publications | Contributor(s): John Kriva, Melissa Widhalm

U2U Poster - May 2012

18 May 2012 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm

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.