Publications

Journals

Conferences

Book Chapters

Presentations

Others

Change Detection and Disturbance Analysis

C. Potter, V. Kumar, S. Klooster, and R. Nemani. Recent history of trends in vegetation greenness and large-scale ecosystem disturbances in Eurasia. Tellus: Series B, 59(2):260-272, 2007.
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Potter, C., V. Genovese, P. Gross, S. Boriah, M. Steinbach, and V. Kumar (2007), Revealing Land Cover Change in California With Satellite Data, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(26), 269.
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C. Potter, P. Tan, V. Kumar, C. Kucharik, S. Klooster, V. Genovese, W. Cohen, S. Healey. "Recent History of Large-Scale Ecosystem Disturbances in North America Derived from the AVHRR Satellite Record", Ecosystems, 8(7), 808-824.
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Christopher Potter, Pang-Ning Tan, Michael Steinbach, Steven Klooster, Vipin Kumar, Ranga Myneni, Vanessa Genovese, "Major Disturbance Events in Terrestrial Ecosystems Detected using Global Satellite Data Sets", Global Change Biology, 9(7), 1005-1021, 2003.
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Teleconnections

Christopher Potter, Shyam Boriah, Michael Steinbach, Vipin Kumar and Steven Klooster (2007), "Terrestrial vegetation dynamics and global climate controls", Climate Dynamics, 2008.
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C. Potter, S. Boriah, M. Steinbach, V. Kumar, and S. Klooster, "Terrestrial Vegetation Dynamics and Global Climate Controls in North America: 2001--2005." Earth Interactions, 12(8):1--12, 2008.

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C. Potter, S. Klooster, M. Steinbach, P. Tan, V. Kumar, S. Shekhar, R. Nemani, and R. Myneni, "Global Teleconnections of Ocean Climate to Terrestrial Carbon Flux", J. Geophysical Research, Vol. 108, No. D17, 4556,, 2003.
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C. Potter, S. Klooster, M. Steinbach, P. Tan, V. Kumar, S. Shekhar, and C. Carvalho, "Understanding Global Teleconnections of Climate to Regional Model Estimates of Amazon Ecosystem Carbon Fluxes", Global Change Biology, Volume 10, Issue 5, 693-703, 2004.
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Terrestrial Carbon Sinks

C. Potter, S. Klooster, P. Tan, M. Steinbach, V. Kumar, and V. Genovese. Variability in terrestrial carbon sinks over two decades. part III: South America, Africa, and Asia. Earth Interactions, 9(29):1-15, 1 2005.
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C. Potter, S. Klooster, P. Tan, M. Steinbach, V. Kumar and V. Genovese, "Variability in terrestrial carbon sinks over two decades: Part 2 — Eurasia", Global and Planetary Change, Volume 49, Issues 3-4, December 2005, Pages 177-186.
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Christopher Potter , Steven Klooster, Ranga Myneni, Vanessa Genovese, Pang-Ning Tan, Vipin Kumar, "Continental Scale Comparisons of Terrestrial Carbon Sinks", Global and Planetary Change, 39, 201-213, 2003.
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C. Potter, S. Klooster, M. Steinbach, P. Tan, V. Kumar, R. Myneni, V. Genovese, "Variability in Terrestrial Carbon Sinks Over Two Decades: Part 1-North America", Earth Interactions, Volume 7, Paper 12, 2003.
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Christopher S. Potter, Steven Klooster, Vanessa Brooks, "Interannual Variability in Terrestrial Net Primary Production: Exploration of Trends and Controls on Regional to Global Scales", Ecosystems, Volume 2, Issue 1, Jan 1999, Pages 36 - 48.
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River Analysis

Christopher Potter, Pusheng Zhang, Steven Klooster, Vanessa Genovese, Shashi Shekhar, Vipin Kumar "Understanding the Controls of Historical River Discharge Data on Largest River Basins ", Earth Interactions, Volume 8, Paper 2, 1-21, 2004.
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Change Detection

S. Boriah, V. Kumar, M. Steinbach, C. Potter, and S. Klooster. Land Cover Change Detection: A Case Study. Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2008.
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Cluster Analysis

Michael Steinbach, Pang-Ning Tan, Shyam Boriah, Vipin Kumar, Steven Klooster, and Christopher Potter, "The Application of Clustering to Earth Science Data: Progress and Challenges", Proceedings of the 2nd NASA Data Mining Workshop, May 2006.
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Vipin Kumar, Michael Steinbach, Pusheng Zhang, Shashi Shekhar, Pang-Ning Tan, Christopher Potter, and Steven Klooster, "Discovery of Changes from the Global Carbon Cycle and Climate System Using Data Mining", NASA Earth Science Technology Conference 2004.
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S. Boriah, G. Simon, M. Naorem, M. Steinbach, V. Kumar, S. Klooster, and C. Potter, Predicting Land Climate Using Ocean Data, KDD Workshop on Mining Temporal and Sequential Data, August 22, 2004 – Seattle, WA
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Michael Steinbach, Pang-Ning Tan, Vipin Kumar, Christopher Potter, and Steven Klooster, "Discovery of Climate Indices using Clustering", KDD 2003.
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Michael Steinbach, Pang-Ning Tan, Vipin Kumar, Christopher Potter, and Steven Klooster, "Temporal Data Mining for the Discovery and Analysis of Ocean Climate Indices", KDD Workshop on Temporal Data Mining, 2002.
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Michael Steinbach, Pang-Ning Tan, Vipin Kumar, Christopher Potter, and Steven Klooster, "Data Mining for the Discovery of Ocean Climate Indices", The Fifth Workshop on Scientific Data Mining (2nd SIAM International Conference on Data Mining), 2002.
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Vipin Kumar, Michael Steinbach, Pang-Ning Tan, Steven Klooster, Christopher Potter, Alicia Torregrosa, "Mining Scientific Data: Discovery of Patterns in the Global Climate System ", Joint Statistical Meeting, 2001.
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Michael Steinbach, Pang-Ning Tan, Vipin Kumar, Christopher Potter, Steven Klooster, Alicia Torregrosa, "Clustering Earth Science Data: Goals, Issues and Results", KDD Workshop on Mining Scientific Datasets, 2001.
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Association Analysis

Pang-Ning Tan, Michael Steinbach, Vipin Kumar, Christopher Potter, Steven Klooster, Alicia Torregrosa, "Finding Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Earth Science Data", KDD Workshop on Temporal Data Mining, 2001.
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Query Processing

P. Zhang, S. Shekhar, Y. Huang, and V. Kumar, "Spatial Cone Tree: An Index Structure for Correlation-based Similarity Queries on Spatial Time Series Data", In the Proc. of the Int'l Workshop on Next Generation Geospatial Information, 2003.
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Pusheng Zhang, Yan Huang, Shashi Shekhar, and Vipin Kumar, "Exploiting Spatial Autocorrelation to Efficiently Process Correlation-Based Similarity Queries", the 8th Symp. on Spatial and Temporal Databases, 2003.
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Pusheng Zhang, Yan Huang, Shashi Shekhar, and Vipin Kumar, "Correlation Analysis of Spatial Time Series Datasets: A Filter-and-Refine Approach", the Seventh Pacific-Asia Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2003.
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S. Boriah, V. Kumar, M. Steinbach, P. Tan, C. Potter, and S. Klooster. Detecting Ecosystem Disturbances and Land Cover Change using Data Mining. In H. Kargupta, J. Han, P. Yu, R. Motwani, and V. Kumar, editors, Next Generation of Data Mining, CRC Press, 2008.

Pusheng Zhang, Michael Steinbach, Vipin Kumar, Shashi Shekhar, Pang-Ning Tan, Steve Klooster, and Chris Potter, Discovery of Patterns of Earth Science Data Using Data Mining, as a Chapter in Next Generation of Data Mining Applications, Jozef Zurada and Medo Kantardzic(eds), Wiley-IEEE Press, March 2005.
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Vipin Kumar, High Performance Data Mining - Application for Discovery of Patterns in the Global Climate System, Keynote Talk, HiPC 2007.
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Vipin Kumar, Discovery of Patterns in the Global Climate System using Data Mining, NGDM '07: National Science Foundation Symposium on Next Generation of Data Mining and Cyber-Enabled Discovery for Innovation.
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Shyam Boriah, The Application of Clustering to Earth Science Data: Progress and Challenges, NASA Data Mining Workshop, May 2006.
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Michael Steinbach, Predicting Land Climate Using Ocean Data, KDD Workshop on Mining Temporal and Sequential Data, August 22, 2004 – Seattle, WA
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Mining Scientific Data, NASA Open House, October 2003.
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Michael Steinbach, Vipin Kumar, Mining Climate Data, Presentation at the Digital Technology Center, University of Minnesota, September 2003.
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Vipin Kumar, Discovery of Patterns in the Global Climate System using Data Mining, University of Wisconsin, August 2003.
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Michael Steinbach, Vipin Kumar, Mining Climate Data, Presentation at Workshop on Data Mining and Exploration Middleware for Distributed and Grid Computing, Sep, 2003.
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Michael Steinbach, Pang-Ning Tan, Vipin Kumar, Christopher Potter, and Steven Klooster, Discovery of Climate Indices using Clustering, Presentation at KDD 2003, Aug, 2003.
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Pusheng Zhang, Yan Huang, Shashi Shekhar, and Vipin Kumar, "Efficient Query Processing Techniques on Spatial Time Series", Presentation for SSTD, July, 2003.
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Vipin Kumar, "Discovery of Changes in the Global Carbon Cycle and Climate System Using Data Mining", Presentation at NASA IDU, Sept 4-6, 2002.

Vipin Kumar, "Discovery of Patterns in the Global Climate System using Data Mining", Keynote Address at PAKDD 2002.
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Vipin Kumar, "Data Mining for Earth Science Data", Presentation at UMBC, March 20, 2002
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C. Potter, S. Klooster, Ranga Myneni, P. Tan, M. Steinbach,V. Kumar, "Understanding Global Teleconnections of Climate to Regional Model of Amazon Ecosystem Carbon Fluxes", Poster in Brasil , 2002.
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Vipin Kumar, "Data Mining for Earth Science Data", Presentation at IPAM Mathematical Challenges in Scientific Data Mining, January 15, 2002.
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Vipin Kumar, Shashi Shekhar, George Karypis, Christopher Potter, Steven Klooster, Alicia Torregrosa, "Discovery of Changes from the Global Carbon Cycle and Climate System Using Data Mining", Presentation in Missoula, 2001.
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Wolfgang Buermann, Bruce Anderson, Compton J. Tucker, Robert E. Dickinson, Wolfgang Lucht, Christopher S. Potter, and Ranga B. Myneni, "Interannual covariability in Northern Hemisphere air temperatures and greenness associated with El Nino-Southern Oscillation and the Arctic Oscillation", Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 108, No. D13, 4396.
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