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  1. Quantifying the uncertainties in estimating the heterogeneous effects of carbon taxes on labor, land, water, and fertilizer use in US agriculture

    17 May 2023 | Contributor(s): Iman Haqiqi

    Selected Paper prepared for presentation at the 2023 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC; July 23-25, 2023 Potential carbon taxes will have spatially heterogeneous impacts on agriculture. The magnitude of impacts depends on 1) the direct and...

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

    04 May 2019 | 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...

  3. Marker Set

    06 Nov 2018 | Contributor(s): Rob Campbell

    Create iData Marker Set definition files (.ims)

  4. Using spatially explicit data to improve our understanding of land supply responses: An application to the cropland effects of global sustainable irrigation in the Americas

    09 Aug 2018 | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria, Jing Liu

    Land supply elasticities determine the rates of land conversion in global policy models. However, they are only available for few countries in the world. Therefore, analysts seeking to improve the spatial resolution of their models are forced to impose regionally homogeneous parameters...

  5. iData Packaging Tool

    12 Jun 2018 | Tools | Contributor(s): Rajesh Kalyanam, Rob Campbell (contributor), Lan Zhao (contributor)

    Package iData files into a BagIT bag for subsequent import to a different project.

  6. Metadata Exporter

    03 Apr 2018 | Tools | Contributor(s): Rajesh Kalyanam

    Export geospatial file metadata to the ISO-19115 standard

  7. 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.

  8. iData Walkthrough

    21 Oct 2017 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Rajesh Kalyanam

    This video demonstrates the features of the GABBs iData data management building block such as automatic metadata extraction and geospatial file preview. It also walks through how iData files can be used in both hub tools and publications. 

  9. 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...

  10. iData Tutorial

    22 Jul 2016 | Teaching Materials | 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...

  11. 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...

  12. LANDPARAM

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

    A tool to aggregate cropland supply and land transformation elasticities

  13. 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.

  14. Using Useful to Usable (U2U) Tools for an Introductory Agronomy Course (Purdue University) -- Lab Assignment

    04 Dec 2014 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Trevor J. Frank, Bruce J. Erickson

    This lab was constructed to provide introductory Agronomy students with a knowledge base of farming technology and available agricultural decision-making tools. Students will learn available technology for predicting climate variability, growing degree days, nitrogen fertilizer rates, cover crop...

  15. 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...

  16. 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...

  17. 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...

  18. 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,...

  19. 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...

  20. U2U Selected Research Highlights

    18 Feb 2013 | Publications | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm

    This short document overviews some of the recent research findings from the U2U project.