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Landsat: A global land-observing program Landsat: A global land-observing program
Landsat represents the world’s longest continuously acquired collection of space-based land remote sensing data. The Landsat Project is a joint initiative of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) designed to gather Earth resource data from space. NASA developed and launched the spacecrafts, while the USGS handles the operations...
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Water Resources Division U.S. Geological Survey
A new approach for predicting drought-related vegetation stress: Integrating satellite, climate, and biophysical data over the U.S. central plains A new approach for predicting drought-related vegetation stress: Integrating satellite, climate, and biophysical data over the U.S. central plains
Droughts are normal climate episodes, yet they are among the most expensive natural disasters in the world. Knowledge about the timing, severity, and pattern of droughts on the landscape can be incorporated into effective planning and decision-making. In this study, we present a data mining approach to modeling vegetation stress due to drought and mapping its spatial extent during the...
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Tsegaye Tadesse, Jesslyn F. Brown, M.J. Hayes
Global land cover mapping and characterization: present situation and future research priorities Global land cover mapping and characterization: present situation and future research priorities
The availability and accessibility of global land cover data sets plays an important role in many global change studies. The importance of such science‐based information is also reflected in a number of international, regional, and national projects and programs. Recent developments in earth observing satellite technology, information technology, computer hardware and software, and...
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Chandra Giri
NCWin — A Component Object Model (COM) for processing and visualizing NetCDF data NCWin — A Component Object Model (COM) for processing and visualizing NetCDF data
NetCDF (Network Common Data Form) is a data sharing protocol and library that is commonly used in large-scale atmospheric and environmental data archiving and modeling. The NetCDF tool described here, named NCWin and coded with Borland C + + Builder, was built as a standard executable as well as a COM (component object model) for the Microsoft Windows environment. COM is a powerful...
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Jinxun Liu, J.M. Chen, D.T. Price, S. Liu
The hurricane-flood-landslide continuum The hurricane-flood-landslide continuum
In August 2004, representatives from NOAA, NASA, the US Geological Survey (USGS), as well as other government agencies and academic institutions convened in San Juan, Puerto Rico, at a workshop to discuss a proposed research project called the Hurricane-Flood-Landslide Continuum (HFLC). The purpose of the HFLC is to develop and integrate the multidisciplinary tools needed to issue...
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A. J. Negri, N. Burkardt, J. H. Golden, J. B. Halverson, G. J. Huffman, M. C. Larsen, J. A. McGinley, R. G. Updike, J. P. Verdin, G. F. Wieczorek
Climate science and famine early warning Climate science and famine early warning
Food security assessment in sub-Saharan Africa requires simultaneous consideration of multiple socio-economic and environmental variables. Early identification of populations at risk enables timely and appropriate action. Since large and widely dispersed populations depend on rainfed agriculture and pastoralism, climate monitoring and forecasting are important inputs to food security...
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James P. Verdin, Chris Funk, Gabriel B. Senay, R. Choularton
DEM, tide and velocity over sulzberger ice shelf, West Antarctica DEM, tide and velocity over sulzberger ice shelf, West Antarctica
Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets preserve more than 77% of the global fresh water and could raise global sea level by several meters if completely melted. Ocean tides near and under ice shelves shifts the grounding line position significantly and are one of current limitations to study glacier dynamics and mass balance. The Sulzberger ice shelf is an area of ice mass flux change in West...
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S. Baek, C. K. Shum, H. Lee, Y. Yi, Oh-Ig Kwoun, Z. Lu, Andreas Braun
SLC-off Landsat-7 ETM+ reflective band radiometric calibration SLC-off Landsat-7 ETM+ reflective band radiometric calibration
Since May 31, 2003, when the scan line corrector (SLC) on the Landsat-7 ETM+ failed, the primary foci of Landsat-7 ETM+ analyses have been on understanding and attempting to fix the problem and later on developing composited products to mitigate the problem. In the meantime, the Image Assessment System personnel and vicarious calibration teams have continued to monitor the radiometric...
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B. L. Markham, J. A. Barsi, K. J. Thome, J. L. Barker, P. L. Scaramuzza, D. L. Helder
USGS Releases New Digital Aerial Products USGS Releases New Digital Aerial Products
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) has initiated distribution of digital aerial photographic products produced by scanning or digitizing film from its historical aerial photography film archive. This archive, located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, contains thousands of rolls of film that contain more than 8 million frames of...
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Water Resources Division U.S. Geological Survey
The Circumpolar Arctic vegetation map The Circumpolar Arctic vegetation map
Question: What are the major vegetation units in the Arctic, what is their composition, and how are they distributed among major bioclimate subzones and countries? Location: The Arctic tundra region, north of the tree line. Methods: A photo-interpretive approach was used to delineate the vegetation onto an Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) base image. Mapping experts...
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Donald A. Walker, Martha K. Raynolds, F.J.A. Daniels, E. Einarsson, A. Elvebakk, W.A. Gould, A.E. Katenin, S.S. Kholod, C. J. Markon, E. S. Melnikov, N.G. Moskalenko, Stephen S. Talbot, B.A. Yurtsev, L.C. Bliss, S.A. Edlund, S.C. Zoltai, M. Wilhelm, C. Bay, G. Gudjonsson, G.V. Ananjeva, D.S. Drozdov, L.A. Konchenko, Y.V. Korostelev, O.E. Ponomareva, N.V. Matveyeva, I.N. Safranova, R. Shelkunova, A.N. Polezhaev, B.E. Johansen, H.A. Maier, D.F. Murray, Michael D. Fleming, N.G. Trahan, T.M. Charron, S.M. Lauritzen, B.A. Vairin
A simple and effective radiometric correction method to improve landscape change detection across sensors and across time A simple and effective radiometric correction method to improve landscape change detection across sensors and across time
Satellite data offer unrivaled utility in monitoring and quantifying large scale land cover change over time. Radiometric consistency among collocated multi-temporal imagery is difficult to maintain, however, due to variations in sensor characteristics, atmospheric conditions, solar angle, and sensor view angle that can obscure surface change detection. To detect accurate landscape...
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X. Chen, Lee Vierling, D. Deering
A comparative analysis of the Global Land Cover 2000 and MODIS land cover data sets A comparative analysis of the Global Land Cover 2000 and MODIS land cover data sets
Accurate and up-to-date global land cover data sets are necessary for various global change research studies including climate change, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem assessment, and environmental modeling. In recent years, substantial advancement has been achieved in generating such data products. Yet, we are far from producing geospatially consistent high-quality data at an...
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S. Giri, Z. Zhu, B. Reed