Direct measurement of ecosystem evapotranspiration by the eddy covariance method and simulation modeling were employed to quantify the growing season (May–October) evapotranspiration (ET) of eight forest ecosystems representing a management gradient in dominant forest types and age classes in the Upper Great Lakes Region from 2002 to 2003. We measured net exchangeof water vapor fluxes in a 63-y...

The buffer generation algorithm is a fundamental function in GIS, identifying areas of a given distance surrounding geographic features. Past research largely focused on buffer generation algorithms generated in a stand-alone environment. Moreover, dissolved buffer generation is dataand computing-intensive. In this scenario, the improvement in the stand-alone environment is limited when conside...

We evaluated evenand uneven-aged silvicultural options for slash pine (Pinus elliottii Engelm.) using empirical data and the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) model. Data were collected from a mature unthinned slash pine plantation in a flatwoods site in Florida, and used to simulate six scenarios of evenand uneven-aged silvicultural regimes applied to slash pine stands, including a no-action o...

In this paper a method for measuring kinematics of sit-to-stand movement using inertial sensors and human body model is presented. The proposed approach fuses data from inertial sensors (accelerometers and gyroscopes) and data from three-segment human body model using Extended Kalman filtering technique and in this way reduces inaccuracies associated with inertial sensors. Dynamic human body mo...