Report summary

The 2018-2020 picture for University of Maryland, College Park Department of Geographical Sciences is a 28-PI network with 25 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Environmental Science as the leading field (45% of slots across 21 PIs; 21 labels), Global and Planetary Change as the leading subfield (25% of slots across 16 PIs; 16 labels), and Remote Sensing in Agriculture as the leading topic (7% of slots across 5 PIs; 5 labels). This is a solid, readable collaboration map: group-level fit matters more than a single department-wide label. The leading PI names are Shunlin Liang (16.7 weighted works; Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Climate variability and models). The clearest collaboration lines are Ralph Dubayah and Hao Tang (17 shared works, weight 7.5); John Armston and Ralph Dubayah (14 shared works, weight 5.9). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 13 internal connections, weight 28.4, around Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Nature and Landscape Conservation, led by Kuishuang Feng, Hao Tang, Matthew C. Hansen.