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Kevin Price
Professor
Office: 230 Lindley Hall
Phone: 785-864-5542/1507
Email: price@ku.edu
Office Hours: T R 12:30-1:30 pm; or by appt.
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Professor Kevin Price works with distinguished national and international research
teams to study the impacts global change on natural and agroecosystems.
Since 1995, he has led efforts to develop a national vegetation monitoring
program called the GreenReport.
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Research Interests |
Geog. 104: Principles of Physical Geography
Geog. 531: Topics in Phys: Ecosystem Ecology
Geog. 726: Remote Sensing II
Geog. 980: Seminar: Remote Sensing Topics
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Biogeography, landscape ecology, remote sensing, geographic information systems, resource management
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Selected Publications |
Currently conducting research on the use of multitemporal satellite imagery for characterizing impacts of drought on rangelands to be used in a new national rangeland, pastureland, and dryland hay insurance program.
Using remote sensing methodologies to characterize grassland of the central Great Plains according to their present land cover and land use and relating soil carbon storage with these land types.
Developing national scale remote sensing crop yield and condition assessment models
Developing remote sensing methods for estimating cover of red cedar in the central Great Plains and assessing rates of invasion by the tree type since the early 1980s
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Link to Dr. Price's Kansas Applied Remote Sensing program website, where his publications can be downloaded.
Price, K.P. F. Yu, R. Lee, and J. Ellis. 2004. Characterizing Ecosystem Variability of Northern China Steppes Using Onset of Green-Up Derived From Time-Series AVHRR NDVI Data. GIS & Remote Sensing Journal, 41(1):45-61.
Yu, F, K.P Price, J. Ellis and P. Shi. 2003. Response of seasonal vegetation development to climatic variations in eastern central Asia. Remote Sensing Environment, 87:42-54.
Guo, X., K.P. Price and J.M. Stiles. 2003. Grasslands Discriminant Analysis Using Landsat TM Multitemporal Data. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 69(11):1255-1262.
National Research Council of the National Academies. 2002. DOWN TO EARTH: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA. The National Academies Press. 155 pp. ISBN 0-309-08478-4. Written by the Committee on the Geographic Foundation for Agenda 21. John R. Jensen (Committee Chair). Kevin P. Price was one of 12 committee members and 6 NRC staff that prepared the publication.
Price, K.P., T. Crooks, and E.A. Martinko. 2001. Grasslands across time and scale: A remote sensing perspective. April Conference Edition 2001 Highlight Article, Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 67(4):414 - 419.
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