Meeting the challenge of mapping peatlands with remotely sensed data O. N. Krankina, D. Pflugmacher, M. Friedl, W. B. Cohen, P. Nelson, and A. Baccini Oregon State University, Department of Forest Science, 321 Richardson Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA Boston University, Department of Geography and Environment, 675 Commonwealth Ave., 4th Floor, Boston, MA 02215, USA Forestry Sciences Laboratory,...

Production of Bio-oil from Underutilized Forest Biomass Using an Auger Reactor H. Ravindran, S. Thangalazhy-Gopakumar, S. Adhikari, O. Fasina, M. Tu, B. Via, E. Carter & S. Taylor a Department of Biosystems Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA b Department of Mechanical Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA c Department of Chemical Engineering, Auburn University, ...

a Southern Global Change Program, USDA Forest Service, 920 Main Campus Dr., Venture II, Suite 300, Raleigh, NC 27606, USA b Southern China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, PR China c College of Soil and Water Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, PR China d University of British Columbia-Okanagan, 3333 University Way, Kelowna, BC, Canada V1V 1V7 e Coweeta ...

a Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Great Lakes Forestry Centre, 1219 Queen Street East, Sault Ste. Marie, ON P6A 2E5, Canada b USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, 3041 Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA c USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, 3041 Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle...

Sebastián Martinuzzi a,b,∗, William A. Gould a, Olga M. Ramos González a a USDA Forest Service International Institute of Tropical Forestry (IITF), Jardı́n Botánico Sur, 1201 Calle Ceiba, Rı́o Piedras, PR 00926-1119, United States b Laboratorio de Investigación de Sistemas Ecológicos y Ambientales (LISEA), Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Diag. 113 No. 469 CC 31, Fac. Cs. Agrarias y Forestales, ...

Graduate programs in Engineering have immediate applications for the fields of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, but they also are relevant to Rural Development, Agricultural Extension, Soil Science, Food Technology, Forestry and Agronomy, Agricultural Management as well as other fields. Fortunately, due to its importance data are available to generate numerous insights into the top Engi...

STEVEN R. BEISSINGER,1,6 J. MICHAEL REED,2 JOSEPH M. WUNDERLE, JR.,3 SCOTT K. ROBINSON,4 AND DEBORAH M. FINCH5 1Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, 151 Hilgard Hall, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA; 2Department of Biology, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA; 3International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service, Box...

Integrative Life Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 9 23284, USA. Department of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284, 10 USA. Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade de Brasília, 70910-900Brasília, DF, 11 Brazil.Department of Biological Sciences and Merriam Powel Center for Environmental 12 Research, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011,...

The aesthetic quality of forests in the U.S. is actively managed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service. To support this mission, several forest lands in the southern U.S. have been carefully photographed and analyzed for factors contributing to scenic content. In this paper we describe algorithms that we developed to automatically assess the scenic quality of imag...