Publications

Characterizing and communicating uncertainty
November 26, 2024 | Environmental Research Letters
Robert E Kennedy, Shawn P Serbin, Michael C Dietze, Hans-Erik Andersen, Chad Babcock, David F Baker, Molly E Brown, Kenneth J Davis, Laura Duncanson, Sha Feng, Andrew T Hudak, Junjie Liu, Paul L Patterson, Brett Raczka, Mark A Cochrane, Edil A Sepúlveda Carlo and Rodrigo Vargas

DeepSoil: A Science-guided Framework for Generating High Precision Soil Moisture Maps by Reconciling Measurement Profiles Across In-situ and Remote Sensing Data
November 22, 2024 | ACM Digital Library
Paahuni Khandelwal, Sangmi Lee Pallickara, and Shrideep Pallickara

MiTREE: Multi-input Transformer Ecoregion Encoder for Species Distribution Modelling
November 18, 2024 | ACM Digital Library
Theresa Chen, Yao-Yi Chiang

Changes in the Yield Effect of the Preceding Crop in the US Corn Belt Under a Warming Climate
November 12, 2024 | Wiley Online Library
Junxiong Zhou, Peng Zhu, Dan M. Kluger, David B. Lobell, Zhenong Jin

Geospatial Foundation Models: Recent Advances and Applications
October 29, 2024 | ACM Digital Library
Ranga Raju Vatsavai

SHARE: A Distributed Learning Framework for Multivariate Time-Series Forecasting
October 7, 2024 | IEEE Xplore
Wei Ye, Prashant Khanduri, Jiangweizhi Peng, Feng Tian, Jun Gao, Jie Ding

Spatial Computing Opportunities in Biomedical Decision Support
September 25, 2024 | ACM Digital Library
Majid Farhadloo, Arun Sharma, Shashi Shekhar, Svetomir Markovic

Climate change exacerbates the environmental impacts of agriculture
September 6, 2024 | Science
Yi Yang, David Tilman, Zhenong Jin, Pete Smith, Christopher B. Barrett, Yong-Guan Zhu, Jennifer Burney, Paolo D’Odorico, Peter Fantke, Joe Fargione, Jacques C. Finlay, Maria Cristina Rulli, Lindsey Sloat, Kees Jan van Groenigen, Paul C. West, Lewis Ziska, Anna M. Michalak, the Clim-Ag Team, and David B. Lobell

Precision Agriculture Survey: Ag Retailers Share What They Think About AI, Drones and Other Technologies
July 15, 2024 | CropLife
Erickson, B., & Lowenberg-DeBoer, J.

Global Adoption of Precision Agriculture: An Update on Trends and Emerging Technologies
June 21, 2024 | ACS Publications
Tianhong Tan, Giulio Genova, Gerard B. M. Heuvelink, Johannes Lehmann, Laura Poggiom Dominic Woolf, and Fengqi You

Importance of Terrain and Climate for Predicting Soil Organic Carbon Is Highly Variable across Local to Continental Scales
June 21, 2024 | Environmental Science & Technology | Vol 58, Issue 26
Tianhong Tan, Giulio Genova, Gerard B. M. Heuvelink, Johannes Lehmann, Laura Poggio, Dominic Woolf, and Fengqi You

Land Use Change Alters Soil Organic Carbon
May 14, 2024 | Advancing Earth and Space Sciences
Xingzhao Huang, Muhammed Mustapha Ibrahim, Yiqi Luo, Lifen Jiang, Ji Chen, Enqing Hou

Convergence in simulating global soil organic carbon by structurally different models after data assimilation
May 13, 2024 | Wiley Online Library
Feng Tao, Benjamin Z. Houlton, Yuanyuan Huang, Ying-Ping Wang, Stefano Manzoni, Bernhard Ahrens, Umakant Mishra, Lifen Jiang, Xiaomeng Huang, Yiqi Luo

Prescribed Fire Modeling using Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning for Land Management
May 2024 | SIAM International Conference on Data Mining | Best Application Paper Award
Somya Sharma Chatterjee, Kelly Lindsay, Neel Chatterjee, Rohan Patil, Ilkay Altintas De Callafon, Michael Steinbach, Daniel Giron, Mai H. Nguyen, and Vipin Kumar

A Framework for Profiling Spatial Variability in the Performance of Classification Models
April 3, 2024 | ACM Digital Library
Menuka Warushavithana, Kassidy Barram, Caleb Carlson, Saptashwa Mitra, Sudipto Ghosh, Jay Breidt, Sangmi Pallickara, Shrideep Pallickara

Rubiks: Rapid Explorations and Summarization over High Dimensional Spatiotemporal Datasets
April 3, 2024 | ACM Digital Library
Saptashwa Mitra, Matt Young, Jay Breidt, Sangmi Pallickara, Shrideep Pallickara

Models to Support Forest Inventory and Small Area Estimation Using Sparsely Sampled LiDAR
March 13, 2024 | Springer Nature Link
Andrew O. Finley, Hans-Erik Andersen, Chad Babcock, Bruce D. Cook, Douglas C. Morton & Sudipto Banerjee 

Reply to Model uncertainty obscures major driver of soil carbon
March 6, 2024 | Nature
Feng Tao, Benjamin Z. Houlton, Serita D. Frey, Johannes Lehmann, Stefano Manzoni, Yuanyuan Huang, Lifen Jiang, Umakant Mishra, Bruce A. Hungate, Michael W. I. Schmidt, Markus Reichstein, Nuno Carvalhais, Philippe Ciais, Ying-Ping Wang, Bernhard Ahrens, Gustaf Hugelius, Toby D. Hocking, Xingjie Lu, Zheng Shi, Kostiantyn Viatkin, Ronald Vargas, Yusuf Yigini, Christian Omuto, Ashish A. Malik, Guillermo Peralta, Rosa Cuevas-Corona, Luciano E. Di Paolo, Isabel Luotto, Cuijuan Liao, Yi-Shuang Liang, Vinisa S. Saynes, Xiaomeng Huang & Yiqi Luo

Economics of strip cropping with autonomous machines
February 9, 2024 |  American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America
A. K. M. Abdullah Al-Amin, James Lowenberg‑DeBoer, Bruce J. Erickson, John T. Evans, Michael R. Langemeier, Kit Franklin, Karl Behrendt

Reply to "Beyond microbial carbon use efficiency"
February 7, 2024 | National Science Review
Feng Tao, Johannes Lehmann, Ying-Ping Wang, Lifen Jiang, Bernhard Ahrens, Kostiantyn Viatkin, Stefano Manzoni, Benjamin Z Houlton, Yuanyuan Huang, Xiaomeng Huang, Yiqi Luo 

Dietary change is not a prerequisite for effective biodiversity conservation but reduces socioeconomic obstacles
February 2024 | ThermoFisher Scientific
Patrick José von Jeetze, Isabelle Weindl, Justin Johnson, Pasquale Borrelli, Panos Panagos, Tobias Meyer, Florian Humpenöder, Pascal Sauer, Jan Dietrich, Hermann Lotze-Campen, Alexander Popp

Revealing the hidden carbon in forested wetland soils
January 25, 2024 | Nature Communications
Anthony J. Stewart, Meghan Halabisky, Chad Babcock, David E. Butman, David V. D’Amore & L. Monika Moskal 

Mapping the planet’s critical areas for biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people
January 10, 2024 | Nature Communications
Rachel A. Neugarten, Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, Richard P. Sharp, Richard Schuster, Matthew Strimas-Mackey, Patrick R. Roehrdanz, Mark Mulligan, Arnout van Soesbergen, David Hole, Christina M. Kennedy, James R. Oakleaf, Justin A. Johnson, Joseph Kiesecker, Stephen Polasky, Jeffrey O. Hanson & Amanda D. Rodewald 

Quantifying and correcting geolocation error in spaceborne LiDAR forest canopy observations using high spatial accuracy data
January 8, 2024 | Wiley Online Library
Elliot S. Shannon, Andrew O. Finley, Daniel J. Hayes, Sylvia N. Noralez, Aaron R. Weiskittel, Bruce D. Cook, Chad Babcock

Knowledge-guided machine learning can improve carbon cycle quantification in agroecosystems 
January 08, 2024 | Nature Communications
Licheng Liu, Wang Zhou, Kaiyu Guan, Bin Peng, Shaoming Xu, Jinyun Tang, Qing Zhu, Jessica Till, Xiaowei Jia, Chongya Jiang, Sheng Wang, Ziqi Qin, Hui Kong, Robert Grant, Symon Mezbahuddin, Vipin Kumar & Zhenong Jin

AQUA: A Framework for Spatiotemporal Analysis and Visualizations of Water Quality Data at Scale
January 2024 | IEEE Xplore
Matthew Young; Sangmi Pallickara; Shrideep Pallickara

Land-Use Decisions Have Substantial Air Quality Health Effects
December 15, 2023 | ACS Publications
Sumil K. Thakrar, Justin A. Johnson, and Stephen Polasky

Precision Agriculture Dealership Survey Results
December 2023
Erickson, B., & Lowenberg-DeBoer, J.

Global crop production increase by soil organic carbon
October 30, 2023 | Nature Geoscience
Yuqing Ma, Dominic Woolf, Mingsheng Fan, Lei Qiao, Rong Li & Johannes Lehmann 

Paying Attention to Wildfire: Using U-Net with Attention Blocks on Multimodal Data for Next Day Prediction
October, 9, 2023 | ACM Digital Library
Jack Fitzgerald, Ethan Seefried, James E Yost, Sangmi Pallickara, Nathaniel Blanchard

Precision Survey: Ag Dealers Respond to Marketplace Shifts
July 16, 2023 | CropLife
Erickson, B., & Lowenberg-DeBoer, J.