Crop-Based Biofuel Production with Acreage Competition and Uncertainty

An Examination of the Crop Acreage Allocation Decision Process under Uncertainty

Livelihood implications of biofuel crop production: Implications for governance

While much attention has focused on the climate change mitigation potential of biofuels, research from the social sciences increasingly highlights the social and livelihood impacts of their expanded production. Policy and governance measures aimed at improving the social effects of biofuels have proliferated but questions remain about their effectiveness across the value chain. This paper perfo...

Crop planting and type proportion method for crop acreage estimation of complex agricultural landscapes

This study presents a crop planting and type proportion (CPTP) method for crop acreage estimation of complex and diverse agricultural landscapes. CPTP has three major components: (1) Crop planting proportion (CPP), estimated with wide-swath satellite remote sensing data to completely cover the monitoring area by segmenting cropped and non-cropped areas through unsupervised classification. (2) C...

The Use of Modis Data in Southern Russia for Crop Acreage Estimations and Inter-comparison of Results from Various Crop Acreage Estimation Methods

The first part of this paper presents a methodology on crop acreage estimations using the MODIS 16-day composite NDVI product. Particular emphasis is placed on a good quality crop mask and a good quality validation dataset. A novel approach which is based on the sampling of pure fields has been developed. The novel approach has been tested in previous work using a traditional maximum likelihood...

Supply chain design under uncertainty for advanced biofuel production based on bio-oil gasification

An advanced biofuels supply chain is proposed to reduce biomass transportation costs and take advantage of the economics of scale for a gasification facility. In this supply chain, biomass is converted to bio-oil at widely distributed small-scale fast pyrolysis plants, and after bio-oil gasification, the syngas is upgraded to transportation fuels at a centralized biorefinery. A two-stage stocha...