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Funded Research and Related Activities
Geographic Information Science
Colleges of the University of Idaho
Agriculture
Use of remote sensing and GIS for precision agriculture and monitoring and managing insect studies and weed control in range and forest lands.
GIS-based distributed hydrological, pollutant and sediment transport modeling for watershed and water quality management.
Mapping of climatic and hydrological elements and derived parameters from wind and ecological models (State climate services).
Art and Architecture
- GIS-aided study of the Payette River corridor for recreation resource management.
- Groundwater vulnerability pilot study for the Snake River Basin.
- GIS applications in agroforestry and forest landscape planning.
- Integrating GIS into organizational structure of local governments, state agencies, private companies, and Indian tribes in Idaho.
Engineering
- Idaho statewide transportation planning model.
Forestry, Wildlife and Range Sciences
- Internationally recognized Landscape Dynamics Laboratory currently with
24 funded projects utilizing GIS and remote sensing for fish and wildlife
research ranging from local to global time-space scales.
- Inland Northwest Remote Sensing Laboratory for Bioregional Analysis and
Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium – Public Access Resource Center (PARC)
and Earth Science Information Partner (ESIP-3). Complementary goals of
teaching and research to develop innovative uses and applications of
remotely sensed Earth science data for forest ecosystem research,
protection of biodiversity and management for sustainable production of
both timber and non-timber commodities. NASA funded.
- Landscape ecology studies of climate-fire-ecosystem linkages in forested ecosystems.
- The relations between socio-economic characteristics, land ownership and conditions of rural communities to geography and bio-physical characteristics of ecosystems.
- Use of remote sensing and GIS to evaluate habitat distribution and dynamics of various wildlife species. Mapping habitat and potential habitats, estimation of abundance, growth rates, survival and Gap analysis.
- Allocation of federal roadless lands to the National Wilderness Preservation System, grizzly bear recovery areas, endangered species and "at-risk" productive timber lands.
Letters and Science
- Application of GIS for characterization of hazardous waste sites and reconstructing exposures to contaminants.
- GIS for archaeological and historical site inventories and mapping in the Laboratory for Anthropology.
Mines and Earth Resources
- Spatial data integration methods emphasizing efficiency and effectiveness for GIS analysis. Two current projects: digitization of soil maps, and the integration of local and regional models for transportation planning.
- Collaborative spatial decision making. Two longer-term projects testing a theory and spatial decision support tools for groups have been supported by NSF and Idaho State Board of Education grants.
- Development of electronic geospatial data libraries. A prototype library with data for Idaho is under development.
- Use of GPS technology for the acquisition of geological and geophysical data and
in establishment of high-resolution geodetic strain networks capable of
detecting sub-centimeter displacements of the earth surface over durations of
several years.
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