UNL
GIS and Remote Sensing Research
Bureau
of Business Research
The Bureau of Business Research
specializes in economic impact analysis, demographic and economic projections,
business conditions and public policy issues affecting Nebraska. The Bureau's
NU ONRAMP and Virtual Library provide online access to data on employment, income,
population, and retail trade.
Center
for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies
Research
emphases:
Hyperspectral remote sensing focused upon observations of vegetation (crops,
wetlands, aquatic
vegetation), surface water, soils and coral reefs
Analysis of satellite image
data (e.g., Landsat, SPOT, AVHRR, MODIS, IKONOS, SeaWIFS) for
regional, continental and global land cover characterization
Estimation of biophysical
parameters of vegetation (e.g., leaf area index, production, fractional
cover)
Land cover change assessment
Remote sensing as a component
of precision agriculture
Spatial and contextual analysis
of digital multispectral imagery
Commercial applications
of remote sensing and GIS
Distance education using
the Web
Remote sensing/GIS integration
Spatial modeling using GIS
focused upon renewable resources management, environmental
hazard assessment and land use/land cover change
Current research projects:
America’s Farm - research in precision farming and educational technologies
Nebraska Gap Analysis Program
- assessing the protection of Nebraska’s vertebrate biodiversity
Land Cover Characterization
to Improve Numerical Weather Forecast Models
Enhancing Land Cover Characterization
with Landsat-7 ETM+ Data
Crop Mapping for Hydrologic
Modeling in the Platte River Watershed
Wetland Watershed Database
Development in the Nebraska Rainwater Basin
Development of a Nebraska
Lakes GIS for Water Quality Protection
Assessment of El Nino Impacts
on Agriculture in the Southeastern U.S.
Agroecosystems Mapping for
Conservation and Agribusiness Applications
Assessing Hail Damage via
Remote Sensing
Remote Sensing for Enhancing
Crop Yield Estimation
Developing Algorithms for
Measuring Crop Biophysical Parameters
Close Range Hyperspectral
Remote Sensing of Water and Wetlands
Environmental Assessments
for Nebraska National Guard Lands
Consortium for Applications
of Space Data in Education - focus on K-12 education
Development of a CD-ROM
Nebraska Natural Resources Atlas
Observing Soil Moisture
Dynamics in Natural Landscapes using SAR Image Time Series
Spatio-temporal Change Detection
for Comparative Landscape Dynamics
Cooperative
Extension Service
Research
on use of GIS in the Biosolids Program
Department
of Agronomy
Research on definition of agroecoregions to define inference
space for cropping systems performance - climate and landscape databases were
analyzed using multivariate analysis to define agroecoregions across the Nebraska
landscape. Current work focusses on the development of a spatial analytical
technique to define inference space as well as exploring methods of ground?truthing
such delineations.
Departments
of Agronomy and Biological Systems Engineering
Research
on Precision Farming and on Variable Rate Application of Farm Chemicals
Nebraska
Research Initiative on Geospatial Decision Support Systems
The Nebraska Research Initiative on Geo-spatial Decision Support
Systems is developing a new generation of web-based tools to help agribusiness
and communities better understand the growing environments of the state and
manage agricultural risks. Natural resource data bases (soils, geology, climate,
and imagery) and infrastructure-related geospatial data are readily growing
in Nebraska from many state and federal agencies, but these data bases need
new information frameworks to help foster the use and application to solve
real problems for farmers, rural communities, and urban environments.
School
of Natural Resource Sciences
UV-B climatological network site at the University of Nebraska Agricultural
Research and Development Center, Mead Nebraska
Analysis of the effect of
changing climate variability on crop production in the southeast: an integration
of stochastic modeling, regional climate modeling, crop modeling and remote
sensing techniques
Characterization and improvement
of EOS land products using measurements at AmeriFlux grassland and wheat sites
in the ARM/CART region
Carbon Sequestration and
Global Climate Change.