Ongoing Projects
To help visitors understand the context and background of my ongoing work, below you can find a collection of projects since 2016.
The spatial pattern of drought-induced tree mortality and canopy opening from mixed forest patches in Memorial Park, Houston Texas
Heat maps showing the intensity of tree cover loss (percent mortality in 10m cells) during 2010-2013, for the entire study area and individual zones with different management goals.
Authentic inquiries in large ecology classes using Christmas Bird Count and National Land Cover data
This project introduces students to the GIS-based spatial abundance of 180 bird species and the influence of land use and climate change over their distribution through citizen science datasets and geospatial analysis.
Exploring utilities of spectral indices and spectral diversity for representing plant diversity and its spatial pattern after prescribed fire in the Edwards Plateau
How do fire, landscape positioning, and ecosystem structure affect the spatial pattern of hyperspectral indices based on productivity and photosynthetic potential of diverse plant community structures? This project also aims to examine the utilities of spectral diversity for representing the plant α-diversity through machine learning and quantify its spatial pattern before and after prescribed burning
Exploring the feasibility of detecting Opuntia engelmannii from multispectral segmentation and hyperspectral spectral analysis after prescribed fires in the Edwards Plateau
This study explores the utilities of segmentation and spectral mapping classification for representing the prickly pear cactus and its spatial distribution within heterogeneous landscapes using hyperspectral (120-bands) and multispectral (6-bands) imagery.
Exploring patch-based community heterogeneity within physiognomically distinct plant community structures before and after the application of prescribed fires in the Edwards Plateau
This study aims to assess the compositional heterogeneity from plant diversity within physiognomically distinct metacommunities within burn units following a ranch-scale application of prescribed fires and free-roaming livestock grazing. Here, we present results from topoedaphically distinct pastures from mesic and xeric ranches in the Edwards Plateau ecoregion of Texas.
The spatial pattern of mixed greenness and development from 6-yr land cover changes in College Station, Texas
This study aims to quantify the spatial distribution of tree cover and development in College Station, TX, from 2014-2020 and explore the spatial configuration and proportions throughout the city's extent by correlating their percent and cumulative frequency to Census 5-yr ACS population renter cost and household income from 2014-2019