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An assessment of the status of the world’s remaining closed forest An assessment of the status of the world’s remaining closed forest
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Authors
Ashbindu Singh, Hua Shi, Zhiliang Zhu, Timothy W. Foresman
Decision tree classification of multidate AVIRIS data for mapping woodland encroachment into the Great Plains Decision tree classification of multidate AVIRIS data for mapping woodland encroachment into the Great Plains
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Authors
David Meyer, Bruce Wylie, Cullen Robbins, Lee Vierling, Patrick Kozak
Monitoring and verifying changes of organic carbon in soil Monitoring and verifying changes of organic carbon in soil
Changes in soil and vegetation management can impact strongly on the rates of carbon (C) accumulation and loss in soil, even over short periods of time. Detecting the effects of such changes in accumulation and loss rates on the amount of C stored in soil presents many challenges. Consideration of the temporal and spatial heterogeneity of soil properties, general environmental conditions...
Authors
W.M. Post, R. C. Izaurralde, L. K. Mann, Norman B. Bliss
Methods to achieve accurate projection of regional and global raster databases Methods to achieve accurate projection of regional and global raster databases
Modeling regional and global activities of climatic and human-induced change requires accurate geographic data from which we can develop mathematical and statistical tabulations of attributes and properties of the environment. Many of these models depend on data formatted as raster cells or matrices of pixel values. Recently, it has been demonstrated that regional and global raster...
Authors
E. Lynn Usery, Jeong Chang Seong, Dan Steinwand
Effects of Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper and Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus radiometric and geometric calibrations and corrections on landscape characterization Effects of Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper and Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus radiometric and geometric calibrations and corrections on landscape characterization
The Thematic Mapper (TM) instruments onboard Landsats 4 and 5 provide high-quality imagery appropriate for many different applications, including land cover mapping, landscape ecology, and change detection. Precise calibration was considered to be critical to the success of the Landsat 7 mission and, thus, issues of calibration were given high priority during the development of the...
Authors
James E. Vogelmann, Dennis Helder, Ron Morfitt, Mike Choate, James W. Merchant, Henry Bulley
A parallel-processing approach to computing for the geographic sciences A parallel-processing approach to computing for the geographic sciences
The overarching goal of this project is to build a spatially distributed infrastructure for information science research by forming a team of information science researchers and providing them with similar hardware and software tools to perform collaborative research. Four geographically distributed Centers of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) are developing their own clusters of low...
Authors
Michael Crane, Dan Steinwand, Tim Beckmann, Greg Krpan, Jim Haga, Brian Maddox, Mark Feller
Measurement of seafloor radioactivity at the Farallon Islands Radioactive Waste Dump Site, California Measurement of seafloor radioactivity at the Farallon Islands Radioactive Waste Dump Site, California
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Authors
D.G. Jones, P. D. Roberts, J. Limburg, Herman A. Karl, J. L. Chin, Wayne C. Shanks, R. Hall, Daniel M. Howard
Satellite images for land cover monitoring - Navigating through the maze Satellite images for land cover monitoring - Navigating through the maze
Policy makers, managers, scientists and the public can view the changing environment using satellite images. More than 60 Earth observing satellites are collecting images of the Earth's surface. Remote sensing satellite systems for land cover assessment are operated by a growing number of countries including India, the United States, Japan, France, Canada and Russia. The focus of this...
Authors
Claudia Kunzer, Gene Fosnight
Evaluation of the Liu model for predicting rainfall interception in forests world-wide Evaluation of the Liu model for predicting rainfall interception in forests world-wide
Simple but effective models are needed for the prediction of rainfall interception under a full range of environmental and management conditions. The Liu model was validated using data published in the literature and was compared with two leading models in the literature: the Rutter and the Gash models. The Liu model was tested against the Rutter model on a single-storm basis with...
Authors
Shu-Guang Liu
Thematic accuracy of MRLC land cover for the eastern United States Thematic accuracy of MRLC land cover for the eastern United States
One objective of the MultiResolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) consortium is to map general land-cover categories for the conterminous United States using Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) data. Land-cover mapping and classification accuracy assessment are complete for the eastern United States. The accuracy assessment was based on photo-interpreted reference data obtained from a stratified
Authors
Limin Yang, Stephen V. Stehman, Jonathan H. Smith, James D. Wickham
Completion of the 1990s National Land Cover Data set for the conterminous United States from Landsat Thematic Mapper data and ancillary data sources Completion of the 1990s National Land Cover Data set for the conterminous United States from Landsat Thematic Mapper data and ancillary data sources
No abstract available.
Authors
James E. Vogelmann, Stephen M. Howard, Limin Yang, Charles R. Larson, Bruce K. Wylie, J. Nicholas Van Driel
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Authors
Tom DeFelice, Robert F. Cahalan