GEOG | Geographical Sciences Department

$Fig. 7. Harmonized global land use area fractions 850–2015 (baseline historical) and 2015–2100 for the eight future scenarios.$

GEOG Researchers Publish Major New Land Use Dataset for Use In Next Generation Global Climate Change Studies

Mapping Sea Ice Surface Topography in High Fidelity with ICESat-2

UMD Researchers Evaluate China Food Security Via Satellite Imagery

Christopher Justice Awarded NASA’s Distinguished Public Service Medal

What do we know about forest degradation in Africa?

Dr. Catherine Nakalembe Named as 2020 Africa Food Prize Laureate

Department of Geographical Sciences Overview

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Sky images to help validate cloud masks from Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2

GEOG researchers (S.Skakun, A. Santamaria Artigas, W. Rountree, J.-C. Roger) in collaboration with NASA GSFC (E. F.

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Household carbon inequality in the U.S.

Household consumption is an essential component of climate policies, and especially important in countries with high carbon footprints and carbon-intensive lifestyles. GEOG research researchers Dr. Kuishuang Feng and PhD student Kaihui Song, collaborating with Former GEOG professor Dr.

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Counting coconut trees in Tonga with satellite imagery

GEOG researchers (S.Skakun, I.Becker-Reshef) in collaboration with NASA GSFC (E.Vermote) and World Bank (K.Saito)

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Quantifying Riverscape Vegetation Change using Drone Laser Scanning

Dr. Resop Presents Drone Lidar Research in Online Summer Conferences for SCGIS and TUGIS

MS GIS Senior Lecturer Jonathan Resop presented in two summer online conferences: the Society for Conservation GIS (SCGIS) national conference and the Towson University GIS (

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