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Multi-Source Irrigation Status and Type Mapping

Description: Data management plan for the grant, "Multi-Source Irrigation Status and Type Mapping." This grant will quantify the long-term irrigation status and system type changes in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley for an advanced understanding of irrigation-induced water resource changes by integrating multi-source earth observation data, machine learning techniques, artificial intelligence and cloud computing.
Date: 2022-07-01/2025-06-30
Creator: Liang, Lu (Geospatial scientist)
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Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Assessment of personal exposure to particulate air pollution: the first result of City Health Outlook (CHO) project

Description: First paper of a series on the City Health Outlook (CHO) project, which aims to establish multi-scale, long-lasting, real-time urban environment and health monitoring networks. This paper is targeted at illustrating the characteristics of the participants and examining the effects of different covariates on personal exposure at various air pollution exposure levels.
Date: June 7, 2019
Creator: Liang, Lu (Geospatial scientist); Gong, Peng; Cong, Na; Li, Zhichao; Zhao, Yu & Chen, Ying
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Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Urban and air pollution: a multi-city study of long-term effects of urban landscape patterns on air quality trends

Description: This article identifies the key urban form determinants of decadal-long fine particulate matter (PM2.5) trends in all 626 Chinese cities at the county level and above. As the first study of its kind, this study comprehensively examines the urban form effects on air quality in cities of different population sizes, at different development levels, and in different spatial-autocorrelation positions.
Date: October 29, 2020
Creator: Liang, Lu (Geospatial scientist) & Gong, Peng
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Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Monitoring, Mapping, and Modeling Spatial–Temporal Patterns of PM2.5 for Improved Understanding of Air Pollution Dynamics Using Portable Sensing Technologies

Description: This article maps the dynamics of PM2.5 concentrations at high spatio-temporal resolutions using bicycle-based, mobile measures on a university campus.
Date: July 8, 2020
Creator: Hart, Ronan; Liang, Lu (Geospatial scientist) & Dong, Pinliang
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Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Healthy cities initiative in China: Progress, challenges, and the way forward

Description: Article discusses how China implemented the first phase of its National Healthy Cities pilot program from 2016-20. Authors recommend aligning the Healthy Cities initiative in China with strategic national and global level agendas such as Healthy China 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by providing an integrative governance framework to facilitate a coherent intersectoral program to systemically improve population health.
Date: July 15, 2022
Creator: Bai, Yuqi; Zhang, Yutong; Zotova, Olena; Pineo, Helen; Siri, José; Liang, Lu (Geospatial scientist) et al.
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Partner: UNT College of Science
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What Influences Low-cost Sensor Data Calibration? - A Systematic Assessment of Algorithms, Duration, and Predictor Selection

Description: Article describes how the low-cost sensor has changed the air quality monitoring paradigm with the capacity for efficient network expansion and community engagement. This study comprehensively assessed ten widely used data techniques, namely AdaBoost, Bayesian ridge, gradient tree boosting, K-nearest neighbors, Lasso, multivariable linear regression, neural network, random forest, ridge regression, and support vector machine.
Date: June 27, 2022
Creator: Liang, Lu (Geospatial scientist) & Daniels, Jacob
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Partner: UNT College of Science
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Individual structure mapping over six million trees for New York City USA

Description: Article asserts that individual tree structure mapping in cities is important for urban environmental studies. The authors produced an individual tree dataset including tree locations, height, crown area, crown volume, and biomass over the entire New York City, USA for 6,005,690 trees, which enables the evaluation of urban forest ecosystem services.
Date: February 20, 2023
Creator: Ma, Qin; Lin, Jian; Ju, Yang; Li, Wenkai; Liang, Lu (Geospatial scientist) & Guo, Qinghua
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Partner: University of North Texas
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Patterns and Drivers of Intra-Urban Heat and Pollution Island Interactions

Description: Data management plan for the grant, "Patterns and Drivers of Intra-Urban Heat and Pollution Island Interactions." Research on the urban heat island (UHI) and urban pollution island (UPI) effects at the neighborhood scale by integrating sensor networks, earth observations, and geospatial analysis. The spatial patterns and intra-annual variability of UHI-UPI interactions and model the urban form drivers controlling UHI-UPI interaction variability will also be examined. These data will be analyzed… more
Date: 2021-08-01/2025-01-31
Creator: Liang, Lu (Geospatial scientist) & Ponette-González, Alexandra G.
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Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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The 2023 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: taking stock for a thriving future

Description: Authors of the article declare that, with growing health risks from climate change and a trend of increasing carbon emissions from coal, it is time for China to take action. The 2023 China report of the Lancet countdown continues to track progress on health and climate change in China, while now also attributing the health risks of climate change to human activities and providing examples of feasible and effective climate solutions.
Date: November 18, 2023
Creator: Zhang, Shihui; Zhang, Chi; Cai, Wenjia; Bai, Yuqi; Callaghan, Max; Chang, Nan et al.
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Partner: UNT College of Science
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Integrating low-cost sensor monitoring, satellite mapping, and geospatial artificial intelligence for intra-urban air pollution predictions☆

Description: Article describes how there is a growing need to apply geospatial artificial intelligence analysis to disparate environmental datasets to find solutions that benefit frontline communities. This research addresses these challenges by leveraging a strategically deployed, extensive low-cost sensor (LCS) network that was rigorously calibrated through an optimized neural network.
Date: May 18, 2023
Creator: Liang, Lu (Geospatial scientist); Daniels, Jacob; Bailey, Colleen; Hu, Leiqiu; Phillips, Ronney & South, John
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Partner: UNT College of Science
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Extraction of Urban Objects in Cloud Shadows on the basis of Fusion of Airborne LiDAR and Hyperspectral Data

Description: This article, fused airborne LiDAR and hyperspectral data were used to extract urban objects in cloud shadows.The experimental results confirm that the proposed method is very effective for urban object extraction in cloud shadows and thus improve urban applications such as urban green land management, land use analysis, and impervious surface assessment.
Date: March 25, 2019
Creator: Man, Qixia & Dong, Pinliang
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Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Black carbon in urban soils: land use and climate drive variation at the surface

Description: The authors of this article conducted a literature review of black carbon in urban soils and found that black carbon comprises a major fraction of the total organic carbon in urban surface soils, yet sampling bias towards the surface could hide the potential for black carbon storage at depth. The authors recorded data on city, climate, and land use/land cover characteristics to examine drivers of black carbon content and contribution to total organic carbon in soil.
Date: March 2, 2024
Creator: Burke, Molly; Marín-Spiotta, Erika & Ponette-González, Alexandra G.
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Partner: UNT College of Science
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Assessing climate niche similarity between persian fallow deer (Dama mesopotamica) areas in Iran

Description: This article aims to assess the similarity in climate niches between the original area of the Persian deer species and 11 newly enclosed areas. The authors used the environmental equivalency test to determine whether the environmental spaces of area pairs exhibit significant differences and whether these spaces are interchangeable.
Date: July 5, 2024
Creator: Rahimi, Ehsan; Dong, Pinliang & Ahmadzadeh, Faraham
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Partner: UNT College of Science
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Spatial Targeting of Agricultural Support Measures: Indicator-Based Assessment of Coverages and Leakages

Description: This article evaluates the targeting strategy of a national-level program in Mexico that distributed agricultural support based on seven criteria that prioritized poor smallholder farming communities at high risk of cropland failure. The findings highlight the continued lack of financial support for smallholder agriculture in Mexico, despite program rules and priority statements that stress the vulnerability of this sector. The article also illustrates the important role of spatial targeting in… more
Date: July 15, 2021
Creator: LaFevor, Matthew C.; Ponette-González, Alexandra G.; Larson, Rebecca & Mungai, Leah M.
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Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Fertility knowledge, contraceptive use and unintentional pregnancy in 29 African countries: a cross-sectional study

Description: Article examines the association between incorrect knowledge of ovulation and unintentional pregnancy/child among young women in sub-Saharan Africa countries.
Date: April 9, 2020
Creator: Oppong, Joseph R.; Iyanda, Ayodeji Emmanuel; Dinkins, Barbara J.; Osayomi, Tolulope; Adeusi, Temitope Joshua & Lu, Yongmei
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Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Land Use Simulation of Guangzhou Based on Nighttime Light Data and Planning Policies

Description: This article employs nighttime light (NTL) information as a proxy indicator of gross domestic product(GDP), and a future land use simulation model (FLUS) to simulate the land use patterns in Guangzhou from 2015 to 2018 and 2018 to 2035 by incorporating planning policies. This study demonstrates that NTL is a suitable and feasible proxy indicator of GDP for the land use simulations, providing a scientific basis for the development of urban planning and construction policy.
Date: May 23, 2020
Creator: Lao, Jieying; Wang, Cheng; Wang, Jinliang; Pan, Feifei; Xi, Xiaohuan & Liang, Lei
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Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Mapping Dragon Fruit Croplands from Space Using Remote Sensing of Artificial Light at Night

Description: Article using National Polar Partnership (NPP)-Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) NTL remote sensing data to observe the seasonal variation of artificial lighting in dragon fruit cropland in Binh Thuan Province, Vietnam. The results suggest that the NTL remotely sensed data could be used to reveal some agricultural productive activities such as dragon fruits production accurately by monitoring the seasonal artificial lighting. This research demonstrates the application potential … more
Date: December 17, 2020
Creator: Wang, Ruirui; Shi, Wei & Dong, Pinliang
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Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Urban edge trees: Urban form and meteorology drive elemental carbon deposition to canopies and soils

Description: Article asserts that urban tree canopies are a significant sink for atmospheric elemental carbon (EC)--and air pollutant that is a powerful climate-forcing agent and threat to human health. The authors' findings indicate that complex configurations of roads, buildings, and vegetation produce “urban edge trees” that contribute to heterogeneous EC deposition patterns across urban systems, with implications for greenspace planning.
Date: September 27, 2022
Creator: Ponette-González, Alexandra G.; Chen, Dongmei; Elderbrock, Evan; Rindy, Jenna E.; Barrett, Tate E.; Luce, Brett W. et al.
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Partner: UNT College of Science
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Accumulator, Transporter, Substrate, and Reactor: Multidimensional Perspectives and Approaches to the Study of Bark

Description: This article is a short review that explores different perspectives and approaches to the study of bark and what they reveal about the myriad ways bark surfaces influence the quality of sub-canopy precipitation.
Date: August 5, 2021
Creator: Ponette-González, Alexandra G.
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Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Estimating potential range shift of some wild bees in response to climate change scenarios in northwestern regions of Iran

Description: Article investigating the impact of climate change on distributional and habitat quality changes of five wild bees in northwestern regions of Iran under two representative concentration pathway scenarios (RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5). This study uses species distribution models to predict the potential range shift of these species in the year 2070.
Date: August 14, 2021
Creator: Rahimi, Ehsan; Barghjelveh, Shahindokht & Dong, Pinliang
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Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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