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Geographic distribution of principal investigator institutions
red_icon Current year count : 13
yellow_icon Started 1 year ago : 7
blue_icon Started 2 year ago:14
green_icon Started 3 year ago : 8
Principal Investigator Projects Start Date End Date View Project
Louise Chini Harmonizing Global Land-Use Datasets with Remote-Sensing Observations of Forest-Based Land-Use Changes
05/05/2025 05/25/2028 Details..
Atul Jain Advancing Understanding of Land Cover and Land Use Changes and Management Impacts on Land-Surface Biophysical Variables and Climate in South and Southeast Asia (SSEA)
05/05/2025 05/05/2028 Details..
Mutlu Ozdogan A Multi-City Digital Twin Study of the Role of Green Infrastructure in Coupled Land-Atmosphere Prediction
05/05/2025 05/05/2028 Details..
Cenlin He Quantifying Impacts of Agricultural Land Use and Irrigation Practice on High Resolution Regional Weather Prediction
05/05/2025 05/05/2028 Details..
Andrea E. Gaughan Advancing Land Cover/Land Use Characteristics in Short-Range Numerical Weather Prediction Systems for Urban Areas
05/05/2025 05/05/2028 Details..
Matthew Johnson Improving Numerical Weather Forecasts with More Representative Land Surface Modeling: Implementation of Updated Satellite-Derived Land Cover and Land Use Change Maps
05/05/2025 05/05/2028 Details..
Xiaojing Tang Improving Urban Climate Simulation by Integrating Remotely Sensed HighResolution Albedo into the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model
05/01/2025 05/01/2028 Details..
Guofeng Cao Understanding the effects of agricultural land use transformations on weather dynamics in southern high plains 05/01/2025 04/30/2028 Details..
Glynn Hulley Quantifying Connections Between Urban LCLUC and Emerging Extreme Heat in Rapidly Growing Indian Cities 01/01/2024 12/31/2027 Details..
Karen Seto Urbanization and Fire Risk at the Global Wildland-Urban Interface: A MultiSensor Study of Past and Future Trends 01/01/2024 12/31/2027 Details..
Jonathan Wang Multiscale Monitoring of Drought-Induced Forest Mortality by Detecting Spatial Anomalies in Land Surface Temperature and Infrared Reflectance 01/01/2024 12/31/2027 Details..
Nimrod Carmon Pre- and Post- Wildfire Analysis in Mediterranean Forests Using Combined SWIRTIR Orbital Remote Sensing 01/01/2024 12/31/2027 Details..
Michael Keller Tropical Forest Degradation and Regeneration in the Brazilian Amazon: Thermal Remote Sensing Integrated into a Multi-Source Land Imaging Approach 01/01/2024 12/31/2027 Details..
Sergii Skakun Detecting and Mapping War-Induced Damage to Agricultural Fields in Ukraine Using Multi-Modal Remote Sensing Data 01/01/2024 12/31/2027 Details..
Michael Wimberly Multi-Source, Multi-Resolution Imaging of Urban Land Cover to Improve Predictions of Human Heat Exposures 01/01/2024 12/31/2027 Details..
Saurav Kumar Exploring the Nexus between LCLUC, Socio-Economic Factors, and Water for a Vulnerable Arid US-Mexico Transboundary Region 08/01/2023 07/31/2026 Details..
Peilei Fan Decoding Land Transitions Across the Urban-Rural Continuums (URC): A Synthesis Study of Patterns, Drivers, and Socio-Environmental Impacts in Southeast Asia 07/31/2023 07/30/2026 Details..
Son Nghiem Synthesis Study of Land Cover, Land Use, and Demographic Change Under Multi-Dimensional Developments and Climate Pressures in Southeast Asia 05/24/2023 05/23/2026 Details..
Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr Irrigation as climate-change adaptation in the Cerrado biome of Brazil evaluated with new quantitative methods, socio-economic analysis, and scenario models 05/15/2023 05/14/2026 Details..
Elizabeth A. Hunter The Interplay between Land User Decisions and Landcover Change in Coastal Ecosystems and Working Lands Under Sea Level Rise in the Mid- Atlantic U.S. 05/10/2023 05/09/2026 Details..
Grant Connette Can Improved Stakeholder Representation Prevent Human-Caused Mangrove Loss in the Mesoamerican Reef Ecoregion? 04/01/2023 03/31/2026 Details..
Modulation of Climate Risks by Intensification of Urban and Agricultural Land Uses in the Arabian Peninsula 03/01/2023 02/28/2025 Details..
Disentangling Land-Use Change in Central Africa to Understand the Role of Local and Indigenous Communities in Forest Restoration and Conservation 02/01/2023 01/31/2026 Details..
Land-cover and Land-use Change at the Frontier: Socioeconomic and Environmental Factors Influencing Land-Use Transitions in the Cerrado Biome 02/01/2023 01/31/2026 Details..
Geoffrey Henebry Institutional Forcings on Agricultural Landscapes in Post-Socialist Europe: Diachronic Hotspot Analysis of CAP Influences on Agricultural Land Use in Romania 2002-2024 01/25/2023 01/24/2026 Details..
Jamon Van Den Hoek Multi-sensor Mapping of Refugee Agricultural LCLUC Hotspots in Uganda 01/23/2023 01/22/2026 Details..
David Skole South Asian Smallholder Forests and Other Tree-Based Systems: Synthesizing LCLUC Data and Approaches to Foster a Natural Climate Solution that Improves Livelihoods 01/01/2023 12/30/2026 Details..
Lin Yan Drivers and constraints of land cover land use change in Asian aquaculture hotspots 01/01/2023 12/31/2025 Details..
Xiao-Peng Song Energy LCLUC hotspot: Characterizing the dynamics of energy land use and assessing environmental impacts in the Permian Basin 01/01/2023 12/31/2025 Details..
Qiongyu Huang Untangling the Interactions Between Rural Outmigration, Grassland Degradation, and Sustainable Land Use in Mongolia 03/01/2022 03/01/2025 Details..
McKenzie F. Johnson Land Cover Land Use Change, Conflict, and Peacebuilding in Colombia 02/01/2022 01/31/2025 Details..
Tzu-Hsin Karen Chen A multi-faceted, pan-Mediterranean assessment of urban land change for the evaluation of interconnected climate risks 01/03/2022 01/02/2025 Details..
Sean Woznicki Water Scarcity in the Serbian Danube: Agricultural Land Use Change and Irrigation 01/01/2022 01/18/2026 Details..
Nina Brooks A Remote Sensing Analysis of Heat Stress, LCLUC, and Women’s Health in Sub-Saharan Africa 01/01/2022 01/01/2025 Details..
Xin Xi Mapping and modeling desertification and its impact on aeolian dust and human health in Central Asia 05/01/2021 04/30/2025 Details..
David A. Lutz Rapid Change from Alluvial Mining and Development in Madre de Dios, Peru: A Multi-Sensor Fusion Approach to Quantify Terrestrial and Aquatic Impacts and Test Policy Effectiveness 01/01/2021 12/31/2025 Details..
Nicholas Magliocca Making the Hidden Visible: Accelerated Land-Use Change and Degradation Caused by Narco-Trafficking In and Around Central America’s Protected Areas 01/01/2021 12/31/2025 Details..
Christoph Nolte Comparing the effectiveness of conservation instruments in the Colombian Andes biodiversity hotspot 01/01/2021 12/31/2025 Details..
Christopher Neigh The Impact of Investment on Irrigated Rice, Dryland Agriculture and Afforestation in Senegal using SAR and Optical Time-Series Imagery in Data Fusion Approaches 01/01/2021 12/31/2025 Details..
David Skole Hotspot Detection for Monitoring New Trends in Carbon Sequestration in Systems of Trees Outside of Forests 01/01/2021 12/31/2025 Details..
Nicholas Cuba Evaluating the drivers of international migration from the Northern Triangle of Central America and its implications for land systems in the region 01/01/2021 06/29/2025 Details..
Peilei Fan Divergent Local Responses to Globalization: Urbanization, Land Transition, and Environmental Changes in Southeast Asia 03/23/2020 03/03/2025 Details..
David Skole New Transitions in Smallholder Agricultural Systems that Promote Increased Tree Cover Outside of Forests 01/01/2020 06/30/2025 Details..