Nathan Torbick

TL;DR: Results indicate that systematic and open access Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) can help scale information required by food security initiatives and Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification programs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a simple algorithm for accurate mapping of rubber plantations in northern tropical regions, by combining a forest map derived from microwave data and unique phenological characteristics of rubber trees observed from multi-temporal Landsat imagery.

TL;DR: It is found that poorer lake water quality was significantly associated with increased odds of belonging to an ALS cluster in the region, and this findings support the hypothesis that sporadic ALS can be triggered by environmental water-quality indicators and lake conditions that promote harmful algal blooms.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the behavior of simulated precipitation in the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) over a range of simulated classification accuracies over a 3 month period, and found that land cover accuracy under 80% had a strong effect on precipitation especially when the land surface had a greater control of the atmosphere.

TL;DR: In this article, a methodological framework is proposed to quantify the two-way interactions between land use and regional climate systems, using ongoing work by a team of multi-disciplinary scientists examining climate-land dynamics at multiple scales in East Africa.