• ISED: Constructing a high-resolution elevation road dataset from massive, low-quality in-situ observations derived from geosocial fitness tracking data 

  McKenzie, Grant; Janowicz, Krzysztof (PLoS (Public Library of Science), 2017-10-13)

  Gaining access to inexpensive, high-resolution, up-to-date, three-dimensional road network data is a top priority beyond research, as such data would fuel applications in industry, governments, and the broader public alike. ...

• Disturbance Distance: quantifying forests’ vulnerability to disturbance under current and future conditions 

  Dolan, Katelyn A; Hurtt, George C; Flanagan, Steve A; Fisk, Justin P; Sahajpal, Ritvik; Huang, Chengquan; Page, Yannik Le; Dubayah, Ralph; Masek, Jeffrey G (IOP Publishing, 2017-11-02)

  Disturbances, both natural and anthropogenic, are critical determinants of forest structure, function, and distribution. The vulnerability of forests to potential changes in disturbance rates remains largely unknown. Here, ...

• Mapping 2000–2010 Impervious Surface Change in India Using Global Land Survey Landsat Data 

  Wang, Panshi; Huang, Chengquan; Brown de Colstoun, Eric C. (MDPI, 2017-04-13)

  Understanding and monitoring the environmental impacts of global urbanization requires better urban datasets. Continuous field impervious surface change (ISC) mapping using Landsat data is an effective way to quantify ...

• Poverty eradication in a carbon constrained world 

  Hubacek, Klaus; Baiocchi, Giovanni; Feng, Kuishuang; Patwardhan, Anand (Nature Publishing Group, 2017-10-24)

  The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change aims to keep warming below 2 °C while recognizing developing countries’ right to eradicate extreme poverty. Poverty eradication is also the first of the Sustainable Development ...

• Evaluating characterization of fire extent and fire spread in boreal and tundra fires of Alaska from coarse and moderate resolution MODIS and VIIRS data 

  Loboda, Tatiana; O'Neal, Kelley; Yang, Qi (2017-04-04)

  Satellite observations of fire occurrence, extent, and spread have become a routine source of information for fire scientists and managers worldwide. In remote regions of arctic and boreal zones, satellite observations ...

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