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Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica
Description Fact sheet introduces the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA) with images from a section of the mosaic over McMurdo Station, descriptions of the four versions of LIMA, where to access and download LIMA, and a brief explanation of the Antarctic Web portal.
Authors
Water Resources Division U.S. Geological Survey
InSAR imaging of volcanic deformation over cloud-prone areas - Aleutian islands InSAR imaging of volcanic deformation over cloud-prone areas - Aleutian islands
Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (INSAR) is capable of measuring ground-surface deformation with centimeter-tosubcentimeter precision and spatial resolution of tens-of meters over a relatively large region. With its global coverage and all-weather imaging capability, INSAR is an important technique for measuring ground-surface deformation of volcanoes over cloud-prone and rainy...
Authors
Zhong Lu
Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR)—its past, present and future Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR)—its past, present and future
Very simply, interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) involves the use of two or more synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images of the same area to extract landscape topography and its deformation patterns. A SAR system transmits electromagnetic waves at a wavelength that can range from a few millimeters to tens of centimeters and therefore can operate during day and night under all...
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Zhong Lu, Oh-Ig Kwoun, R.P. Rykhus
Geometric correction and digital elevation extraction using multiple MTI datasets Geometric correction and digital elevation extraction using multiple MTI datasets
Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) are traditionally acquired from a stereo pair of aerial photographs sequentially captured by an airborne metric camera. Standard DEM extraction techniques can be naturally extended to satellite imagery, but the particular characteristics of satellite imaging can cause difficulties. The spacecraft ephemeris with respect to the ground site during image...
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Jeffrey A. Mercier, Robert A. Schowengerdt, James C. Storey, Jody L. Smith
The FORE-SCE model: a practical approach for projecting land cover change using scenario-based modeling The FORE-SCE model: a practical approach for projecting land cover change using scenario-based modeling
A wide variety of ecological applications require spatially explicit, historic, current, and projected land use and land cover data. The U.S. Land Cover Trends project is analyzing contemporary (1973–2000) land-cover change in the conterminous United States. The newly developed FORE-SCE model used Land Cover Trends data and theoretical, statistical, and deterministic modeling techniques...
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Terry L. Sohl, Kristi L. Sayler, Mark A. Drummond, Thomas R. Loveland
MRLC Consortium - National Land Cover Database 2001 MRLC Consortium - National Land Cover Database 2001
No abstract available.
Authors
Water Resources Division U.S. Geological Survey
A land-cover map for South and Southeast Asia derived from SPOT-VEGETATION data A land-cover map for South and Southeast Asia derived from SPOT-VEGETATION data
Aim Our aim was to produce a uniform ‘regional’ land-cover map of South and Southeast Asia based on ‘sub-regional’ mapping results generated in the context of the Global Land Cover 2000 project. Location The ‘region’ of tropical and sub-tropical South and Southeast Asia stretches from the Himalayas and the southern border of China in the north, to Sri Lanka and Indonesia in the south...
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H.-J. Stibig, A.S. Belward, P.S. Roy, U. Rosalina-Wasrin, S. Agrawal, P.K. Joshi, R. Beuchle, S. Fritz, S. Mubareka, S. Giri
A coupled remote sensing and simplified surface energy balance approach to estimate actual evapotranspiration from irrigated fields A coupled remote sensing and simplified surface energy balance approach to estimate actual evapotranspiration from irrigated fields
Accurate crop performance monitoring and production estimation are critical for timely assessment of the food balance of several countries in the world. Since 2001, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) has been monitoring crop performance and relative production using satellite-derived data and simulation models in Africa, Central America, and Afghanistan where ground...
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G.B. Senay, Michael Budde, J. P. Verdin, Assefa M. Melesse
Performance evaluation of spectral vegetation indices using a statistical sensitivity function Performance evaluation of spectral vegetation indices using a statistical sensitivity function
A great number of spectral vegetation indices (VIs) have been developed to estimate biophysical parameters of vegetation. Traditional techniques for evaluating the performance of VIs are regression-based statistics, such as the coefficient of determination and root mean square error. These statistics, however, are not capable of quantifying the detailed relationship between VIs and...
Authors
Lei Ji, Albert J. Peters
TerraLook: Providing easy, no-cost access to satellite images for busy people and the technologically disinclined TerraLook: Providing easy, no-cost access to satellite images for busy people and the technologically disinclined
Access to satellite images has been largely limited to communities with specialized tools and expertise, even though images could also benefit other communities. This situation has resulted in underutilization of the data. TerraLook, which consists of collections of georeferenced JPEG images and an open source toolkit to use them, makes satellite images available to those lacking...
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G.N. Geller, Eugene A. Fosnight, Sambhudas Chaudhuri