{"id":61,"date":"2012-05-16T12:55:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T12:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/yogneva\/?page_id=61"},"modified":"2012-05-16T12:55:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T12:55:16","slug":"land-use-change","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/yogneva\/research\/land-use-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Land-use change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my dissertation I applied a mixed-methods approach, using remote sensing and GIS, along with field work and interviews of farmers, to develop a spatially-explicit land-use change model for the southern Yucatan peninsula of Mexico. Modeling future land use change has been one of the central concerns of the global-change research community because changes in local and regional land use impact both biogeochemical cycles that sustain the biosphere and human-environment interactions locally and regionally. This study pushed the frontiers of land-use change modeling through the use of remotely sensed data and GIS, and demonstrated the possibilities of integrative modeling. It showed that valuable insights can be gained by combining field-based regional assessments of change with modeling and mapping sciences. Inspired by my research, Clark Labs developed several new analytical capabilities within the Idrisi\u00ae software in the late 1990s (Markov chain and cellular automata modeling tools). Results of my dissertation work and my connections with Mexican institutions laid the important foundation for a multi-million dollar research project: <em>Southern Yucatan Peninsular Region Project<\/em> <em>(SYPR)<\/em>.\u00a0 SYPR has been funded by NASA for the past 13 years, yielding numerous research papers that have contributed to the field of land-change science\/GI-Science. As the project&#8217;s postdoctoral researcher in 1998-1999 I directed the remote sensing and GIS portions of the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my dissertation I applied a mixed-methods approach, using remote sensing and GIS, along with field work and interviews of farmers, to develop a spatially-explicit land-use change model for the southern Yucatan peninsula of Mexico. Modeling future land use change &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/yogneva\/research\/land-use-change\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Land-use change<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-61","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/yogneva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/yogneva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/yogneva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/yogneva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/yogneva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/yogneva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/yogneva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/yogneva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}