Sponsored Research

Mangrove Forests Mapping

Coastal mangrove forests provide important ecosystem goods and services, including carbon sequestration, biodiversity conservation, and hazard mitigation. However, they are being destroyed at an alarming rate by human activities. To characterize mangrove forest changes, evaluate their impacts, and support relevant protection and restoration decision making, accurate and up-to-date mangrove forests mapping at large spatial scales is essential. Sponsored by NASA Carbon Monitoring Systems (CMS) Program, we developed a machine learning ensemble to map...

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COVID-19 Impact on Mortality of Various Causes in the United States

This project analyzed CDC published mortality data of a dozen major causes since 1999, and applied the Exponential Smoothing (ETS) algorithm to simulate the 2020 mortality rates per cause, per month and per state, assuming there was no COVID-19 pandemic. The difference between the simulated rates and the actual rates revealed COVID-19 impacts on mortality of various causes in the United States. Results are published in...

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RAPID: Building a Spatiotemporal Platform for Rapid Response to COVID 19

Sponsored by NSF, this project is to build a comprehensive data repository of virus cases, associated social and natural information from different resources for sustainable archive; share data with the research communities through smart data discovery capabilities with easy access; utilize the spatiotemporal computing infrastructure built in IUCRC STC for computational needs of COVID 19 research with online collaboration; develop workflows in collaboration with public health...

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