Roger Auch
Roger has been involved with regional and national land-use and land-cover (LULC) change research since 1999 as a member of the Land Cover Trends project and now the LCMAP initiative.
I have been involved with regional and national land-use and land-cover (LULC) change research since 1999 as a member of the Land Cover Trends project and now the LCMAP initiative. I have extensive knowledge of land change across the United States and the driving forces influencing change. My research bridges remote sensing change detection with non-remote sensing geographical analysis. I have been involved in publishing national and regional land change information, with an emphasis on regional analysis and driving forces of change. Regional works include diverse areas such as the northern Great Plains, the northeast urban corridor, the forested Southeast, and the Corn Belt. Current research includes testing and writing up LCMAP results in use for national and regional land change reporting.
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Land cover trends dataset, 1973-2000
Regional assessment of North America: Urbanization trends, biodiversity patterns, and ecosystem services
Land-use and land-cover change in three corn belt ecoregions: Similarities and differences
Land-cover change in the conterminous United States from 1973 to 2000
The driving forces of land change in the Northern Piedmont of the United States
Scenarios of land use and land cover change in the conterminous United States: Utilizing the special report on emission scenarios at ecoregional scales
An approach to assess land-cover trends in the conterminous United States (1973-2000)
Land change variability and human-environment dynamics in the United States Great Plains
Land change variability and human-environment dynamics in the United States Great Plains
Ecoregional differences in late-20th-century land-use and land-cover change in the U.S. northern great plains
Land changes and their driving forces in the Southeastern United States
The need for simultaneous evaluation of ecosystem services and land use change
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Land cover trends dataset, 1973-2000
The U.S. Geological Survey Land Cover Trends Project is releasing a 1973–2000 time-series land-use/land-cover dataset for the conterminous United States. The dataset contains 5 dates of land-use/land-cover data for 2,688 sample blocks randomly selected within 84 ecological regions. The nominal dates of the land-use/land-cover maps are 1973, 1980, 1986, 1992, and 2000. The land-use/land-cover mapsAuthorsChristopher E. Soulard, William Acevedo, Roger F. Auch, Terry L. Sohl, Mark A. Drummond, Benjamin M. Sleeter, Daniel G. Sorenson, Steven Kambly, Tamara S. Wilson, Janis L. Taylor, Kristi Sayler, Michael P. Stier, Christopher A. Barnes, Steven C. Methven, Thomas R. Loveland, Rachel Headley, Mark S. BrooksRegional assessment of North America: Urbanization trends, biodiversity patterns, and ecosystem services
North America contains some of the most urbanized landscapes in the world. In the United States (U.S.) and Canada, approximately 80 % of the population is urban, with Mexico slightly less (Kaiser Family Foundation 2013). Population growth combined with economic growth has fueled recent urban land expansion in North America. Between 1970 and 2000, urban land area expanded at a rate of 3.31 % (SetoAuthorsTimon McPhearson, Roger F. Auch, Marina AlbertiLand-use and land-cover change in three corn belt ecoregions: Similarities and differences
Land use categorical changes, though not as numerous as one might suspect, vary by type within the three designated ecozones of the Corn Belt with the westernmost zone showing the most temporary change vis-a-vis the more permanent changes taking place in the eastern and central zones.AuthorsRoger F. Auch, Chris R. Laingen, Mark A. Drummond, Kristi Sayler, Ryan R. Reker, Michelle A. Bouchard, Jeffrey J. DanielsonLand-cover change in the conterminous United States from 1973 to 2000
Land-cover change in the conterminous United States was quantified by interpreting change from satellite imagery for a sample stratified by 84 ecoregions. Gross and net changes between 11 land-cover classes were estimated for 5 dates of Landsat imagery (1973, 1980, 1986, 1992, and 2000). An estimated 673,000 km2(8.6%) of the United States’ land area experienced a change in land cover at least oneAuthorsBenjamin M. Sleeter, Terry L. Sohl, Thomas R. Loveland, Roger F. Auch, William Acevedo, Mark A. Drummond, Kristi Sayler, Stephen V. StehmanThe driving forces of land change in the Northern Piedmont of the United States
Driving forces facilitate or inhibit land-use/land-cover change. Human driving forces include political, economic, cultural, and social attributes that often change across time and space. Remotely sensed imagery provides regional land-change data for the Northern Piedmont, an ecoregion of the United States that continued to urbanize after 1970 through conversion of agricultural and forest land covAuthorsRoger F. Auch, Darrell E. Napton, Steven Kambly, Thomas R. Moreland, Kristi SaylerScenarios of land use and land cover change in the conterminous United States: Utilizing the special report on emission scenarios at ecoregional scales
Global environmental change scenarios have typically provided projections of land use and land cover for a relatively small number of regions or using a relatively coarse resolution spatial grid, and for only a few major sectors. The coarseness of global projections, in both spatial and thematic dimensions, often limits their direct utility at scales useful for environmental management. This paperAuthorsBenjamin M. Sleeter, Terry L. Sohl, Michelle A. Bouchard, Ryan R. Reker, Christopher E. Soulard, William Acevedo, Glenn E. Griffith, Rachel R. Sleeter, Roger F. Auch, Kristi Sayler, Stephen Prisley, Zhi-Liang ZhuAn approach to assess land-cover trends in the conterminous United States (1973-2000)
No abstract available.AuthorsRoger F. Auch, Mark A. Drummond, Kristi Sayler, Alisa L. Gallant, William AcevedoLand change variability and human-environment dynamics in the United States Great Plains
Land use and land cover changes have complex linkages to climate variability and change, biophysical resources, and socioeconomic driving forces. To assess these land change dynamics and their causes in the Great Plains, we compare and contrast contemporary changes across 16 ecoregions using Landsat satellite data and statistical analysis. Large-area change analysis of agricultural regions is ofteAuthorsMark A. Drummond, Roger F. Auch, Krista A. Karstensen, Kristi Sayler, Janis L. Taylor, Thomas R. LovelandLand change variability and human-environment dynamics in the United States Great Plains
Land use and land cover changes have complex linkages to climate variability and change, biophysical resources, and socioeconomic driving forces. To assess these land change dynamics and their causes in the Great Plains, we compare and contrast contemporary changes across 16 ecoregions using Landsat satellite data and statistical analysis. Large-area change analysis of agricultural regions is ofteEcoregional differences in late-20th-century land-use and land-cover change in the U.S. northern great plains
Land-cover and land-use change usually results from a combination of anthropogenic drivers and biophysical conditions found across multiple scales, ranging from parcel to regional levels. A group of four Level 111 ecoregions located in the U.S. northern Great Plains is used to demonstrate the similarities and differences in land change during nearly a 30-year period (1973-2000) using results fromAuthorsRoger F. Auch, K. L. Sayler, D.E. Napton, Janis L. Taylor, M.S. BrooksLand changes and their driving forces in the Southeastern United States
The ecoregions of the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain, Southeastern Plains, Piedmont, and Blue Ridge provide a continuum of land cover from the Atlantic Ocean to the highest mountains in the East. From 1973 to 2000, each ecoregion had a unique mosaic of land covers and land cover changes. The forests of the Blue Ridge Mountains provided amenity lands. The Piedmont forested area declined, while the dAuthorsDarrell E. Napton, Roger F. Auch, Rachel Headley, Janis TaylorThe need for simultaneous evaluation of ecosystem services and land use change
We are living in a period of massive global change. This rate of change may be almost without precedent in geologic history (1). Even the most remote areas of the planet are influenced by human activities. Modern landscapes have been highly modified to accommodate a growing human population that the United Nations has forecast to peak at 9.1 billion by 2050. Over this past century, reliance on serAuthorsNed H. Euliss, Loren M. Smith, Shu-Guang Liu, Min Feng, David M. Mushet, Roger F. Auch, Thomas R. Loveland - News