This report provides a summary and evaluation of several modeling approaches, and their theoretical and empirical underpinnings, relative to complex land-change dynamics and processes, and identifies ...

Junchuan Fan and Gautam Thakur helped develop MapSpace, a land-use modeling framework developed from natural language data, geotagging and global location data. (Lena Shoemaker/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of ...

Since the 1980s, forests and agricultural soils have been widely considered as an important, and low cost, option to reduce net atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions ( Richards and Stokes, 2004).

Food, feed, fiber, and bioenergy: The demand for agricultural raw materials is rising. How can additional cultivation areas be reconciled with nature conservation? Researchers have developed a ...

City of Vancouver homeless response coordinator Jamie Spinelli, third from left, talks to a crowd Wednesday, March 1, 2023, during the Columbian Conversations event at Kiggins Theatre. The panel of ...

When geoinformatics engineering researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory wanted to better understand changes in land areas and points of interest around the world, they ...