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Zaitchik, B.F., J.P. Evans and R.B. Smith, 2007. Regional impact of an elevated heat source: the Zagros Plateau of Iran Journal of Climate, 20, 4133-4146.
Zaitchik, B.F., J.P. Evans, R.A. Geerken and R.B. Smith, 2007. Climate and vegetation in the Middle East: inter-annual variability and drought feedbacks. Journal of Climate, 20, 3924-3941.
Hole, F. and B. F. Zaitchik, 2007. Policies, plans, practice, and prospects: Irrigation in northeastern Syria. Land Degradation & Development, 18, 133-152.
Evans, J.P. and R. Geerken, 2006. Classifying rangeland vegetation type and coverage using a Fourier component based similarity measure. Remote Sensing of Environment, 105: 1-8.
Evans, J.P. and R. Smith, 2006. Water vapor transport and the production of precipitation in the Eastern Fertile Crescent. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 7(6): 1295-1307.
Geerken, R., B. Zaitchik, and J.P. Evans, 2005. Classifying rangeland vegetation type and coverage from NDVI time-series using Fourier Filtered Cycle Similarity. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 26(24): 5535-5554.
Zaitchik, B. F., J. P. Evans, and R. B. Smith, 2005. MODIS-derived boundary conditions for a mesoscale climate model: application to irrigated agriculture in the Euphrates Basin. Monthly Weather Review, 133: 1727-1743.
Evans, J.P., Smith, R.B., and Oglesby, R.J., 2004. Middle East climate simulation and dominant precipitation processes International Journal of Climatology 24: 1671-1694
Evans, J. and Geerken, R., 2004. Discrimination between climate and human-induced dryland degradation Journal of Arid Environments 57: 535–554
Enclona, E.A., Thenkabail, P.S., Celis, D., and Diekmann, J., 2004. Within-field wheat yield prediction from IKONOS data: a new matrix approach INT J REMOTE SENS, 25 (2): 377-388
Thenkabail, P.S. 2003. Quantitative Biophysical and Yield Information for Precision Farming From Near-Real Time and Historical Landsat TM Images INT J REMOTE SENS, 24 (14): 2879-2904
Thenkabail, P.S., Smith, R.B., and De Pauw, E., 2002. Evaluation of Narrowband and Broadband Vegetation Indices for Determining Optimal Hyperspectral Wavebands for Agricultural Crop Characterization PE&RS, 68(6): (157 kb)
- Figures for Evaluation of Narrowband and Broadband Vegetation Indices (Large 399 kb)
Thenkabail, P.S. 2001. Optimal Hyperspectral Narrowbands for Discriminating Agricultural Crops In press - accepted for publication in Remote Sensing Reviews (136 kb)
- Figures for Optimal Hyperspectral Narrowbands (Large 267 kb)
Thenkabail, P.S., Smith, R.B., and De Pauw, E., 2000. Hyperspectral Vegetation Indices and Their Relationships with Agricultural Crop Characteristics REMOTE SENS ENVIRON, 71 (2): 158-182
Smith R.B., J. Foster, N. Kouchoukos, P.A. Gluhosky, R. Young, J. Zhang Yale University and E. DePauw ICARDA 2001.Hydrologic Trends in the Middle East: Modeling and Remote Sensing (157 kb)
Evans, J.P., R.B. Smith, R. Oglesby, 2003. Precipitation processes in the Middle East. Proceedings International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, MODSIM03, D. Post(ed.) Jupiters Hotel and Casino, Townsville, Australia, July 14-17.
Evans, J.P., Oglesby, R., Maasch, K., Smith, R., 2002. Investigation of Middle Eastern climate using a regional climate model. 13th Symposium on global change and climate variations. AMS general meeting, Orlando, USA, January 13-17.
Geerken, R., J.P. Evans, D. Celis, N. Batikha, Z. Masri, E. de Pauw, and M. Ilaiwi, 2001. Identification of Degrading Dry-Lands in the Near East and Description of its Vegetation Cover from Multi-Sensoral Remote Sensing Data. Proceedings 2001 conference on Arid Regions Monitored by Satellites - from Observing to Modeling for Sustainable Management, Marrakech, Morocco, November 12-15, 2001.
Evans, J.P., Smith, R., 2001. Modelling the climate of South West Asia. Proceedings International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, MODSIM01, F. Ghassemi et al. (eds.) Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, December 10-13
Hole, F., 2003. 100 Years of Land Use Change in the Khabur Drainage, Syria AGU Chapman Conference on 'Ecosystem interactions with land use change', Sante Fe, New Mexico, USA, June 14-18.
Evans, J.P., Smith, R., Oglesby, R., 2002. Simulation of the climate of South-West Asia with a regional model. AGU fall meeting, San Fransisco, California, USA, December 6-10.