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Greenhouse gas emissions versus forest sequestration in temperate rain forests—a southeast Alaska analysis

Sitka, Alaska, has substantial hydroelectric resources, limited driving distances, and a conservation-minded community, all suggesting strong opportunities for achieving a low community carbon footprint. In this research we evaluate the level of carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions from Sitka and compare this to the estimated CO₂

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Author(s):

David Nicholls; Trista Patterson

Year:

2015

Keywords:

carbon sequestration, net ecosystem productivity, greenhouse gas emissions, temperate rain forest.

Source:

Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-918. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 25 p.

Airborne remote sensing of wildland fires

In wildland fire management, reliable fire intelligence is needed to direct suppression resources, maintain firefighter safety, predict fire behavior, mitigate fire effects in the environment, and...

Author(s):

Philip J. Riggan; Robert G. Tissell

Year:

2009

Keywords:

Source:

In: Bytnerowicz, Andrzej; Arbaugh, Michael; Andersen, Christian; Riebau, Allen. 2009. Wildland Fires and Air Pollution. Developments in Environmental Science 8. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier. pp. 139-168

United States state-level population estimates: Colonization to 1999

The U.S. landscape has undergone substantial changes since Europeans first arrived. Many land use changes are attributable to human activity. Historical data concerning these changes are frequently limited and often difficult to develop. Modeling historical land use changes may be neccessary. We develop annual population series from first European settlement to 1999...

Author(s):

David P. Coulson; Linda Joyce

Year:

2003

Keywords:

landscape, land use changes, human activity, modeling land use trends, linear interpolation

Source:

Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-111. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 55 p.

Remote measurement of energy and carbon flux from wildfires in Brazil

Temperature, intensity, spread, and dimensions of fires burning in tropical savanna and slashed tropical forest in central Brazil were measured for the first time by remote sensing with an infrared imaging spectrometer that was designed to accommodate the high radiances of wildland fires. Furthermore, the first in situ airborne measurements of sensible heat and carbon...

Author(s):

P.J. Riggan; R.G. Tissell; R.N. Lockwood; J.A. Brass; J.A.R. Pereira; H.S. Miranda; A.C. Miranda; T. Campos; R. Higgins

Year:

2004

Keywords:

carbon flux, Cerrado, extended-dynamic-range imaging spectrometer, fire temperature, heat flux, infrared imaging, radiant flux density, remote sensing, slash fire, tropical forest, tropical savanna, wildfire

Source:

Ecological Applications 14(3): 855-872

High-resolution precipitation mapping in a mountainous watershed: ground truth for evaluating uncertainty in a national precipitation dataset

A 69-station, densely spaced rain gauge network was maintained over the period 1951?1958 in the Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, located in the southern Appalachians in western North Carolina, USA. This unique dataset was used to develop the first digital seasonal and annual precipitation maps for the Coweeta basin, using elevation regression functions and...

Author(s):

Christopher Daly; Melissa E. Slater; Joshua A. Roberti; Stephanie H. Laseter; Lloyd W. Swift

Year:

2017

Keywords:

Coweeta, precipitation mapping, rain gauge, precipitation measurement, uncertainty, PRISM, orography interpolation

Source:

International Journal of Climatology

Forest access roads: design, maintenance, and soil loss

The Regional Guide for,the South (United States Department of Agriculture 1984b) recognizes that roads and skid trails are the major sources of sediment from forestry-related activities. The overall environmental impact statement for Region 8 (United States Department of Agriculture 1984a) estimates an existing national forest road network of 56,300 km (3 1,000 miles)...

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