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Illegal dumping of oil and gas wastewater alters arid soil microbial communities Illegal dumping of oil and gas wastewater alters arid soil microbial communities
The Permian Basin, underlying southeast New Mexico and west Texas, is one of the most productive oil and gas (OG) provinces in the United States. Oil and gas production yields large volumes of wastewater with complex chemistries, and the environmental health risks posed by these OG wastewaters on sensitive desert ecosystems are poorly understood. Starting in November 2017, 39 illegal...
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Mitra Kashani, Mark Engle, Douglas Kent, Terry Gregston, Isabelle Cozzarelli, Adam Mumford, Matthew S. Varonka, Cassandra Harris, Denise M. Akob
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Water Resources Mission Area, Contaminant Biology, Energy Resources Program, Environmental Health Program, Toxic Substances Hydrology, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center , Geology, Energy & Minerals Science Center, Reston Biogeochemical Processes in Groundwater Laboratory, Reston Microbiology Laboratory
National-scale remotely sensed lake trophic state from 1984 through 2020 National-scale remotely sensed lake trophic state from 1984 through 2020
Lake trophic state is a key ecosystem property that integrates a lake’s physical, chemical, and biological processes. Despite the importance of trophic state as a gauge of lake water quality, standardized and machine-readable observations are uncommon. Remote sensing presents an opportunity to detect and analyze lake trophic state with reproducible, robust methods across time and space...
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Michael Meyer, Simon Topp, Tyler King, Robert Ladwig, Rachel Pilla, Hilary Dugan, Jack R. Eggleston, Stephanie Hampton, Dina Leech, Isabella Oleksy, Jesse Ross, Matthew Ross, R. Woolway, Xiao Yang, Matthew Brousil, Kate Fickas, Julie Padowski, Amina Pollard, Jianning Ren, Jacob Zwart
Assessing the accuracy of OpenET satellite-based evapotranspiration data to support water resource and land management applications Assessing the accuracy of OpenET satellite-based evapotranspiration data to support water resource and land management applications
Remotely sensed evapotranspiration (ET) data offer strong potential to support data-driven approaches for sustainable water management. However, practitioners require robust and rigorous accuracy assessments of such data. The OpenET system, which includes an ensemble of six remote sensing models, was developed to increase access to field-scale (30 m) ET data for the contiguous United...
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J. Volk, Justin Huntington, Forrest Melton, Richard Allen, Martha Anderson, Joshua Fisher, Ayse Kilic, Anderson Ruhoff, Gabriel Senay, Blake Minor, Charles Morton, Thomas Ott, Lee Johnson, Bruno Comini de Andrade, Will Carrarra, Conor Doherty, Christian Dunkerly, MacKenzie Friedrichs, Alberto Guzman, Christopher Hain, Gregory Halverson, Yanghui Kang, Kyle Knipper, Leonardo Laipelt, Samuel Ortega-Salazar, Christopher Pearson, Gabriel Parrish, A.J. Purdy, Peter ReVelle, Tianxin Wang, Yun Yang
Need and vision for global medium-resolution Landsat and Sentinel-2 data products Need and vision for global medium-resolution Landsat and Sentinel-2 data products
Global changes in climate and land use are threatening natural ecosystems, biodiversity, and the ecosystem services people rely on. This is why it is necessary to track and monitor spatiotemporal change at a level of detail that can inform science, management, and policy development. The current constellation of multiple Landsat and Sentinel-2 satellites collecting imagery at...
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Volker C. Radeloff, David P. Roy, Mike Wulder, Martha Anderson, Bruce D. Cook, Christopher J. Crawford, Mark Friedl, Feng Gao, Noel Gorelick, Matthew Hansen, Sean Healey, Patrick Hostert, Glynn Hulley, Justin Huntington, Dave Johnson, Christopher Neigh, Alexei Lyapustin, Leo Lymburner, Nima Pahlevan, Jean-Francois Pekel, Theodore Scambos, Crystal Schaaf, Peter Strobl, Eric Vermote, Curtis Woodcock, Hankui Zhang, Zhe Zhu
Operational aspects of Landsat 8 and 9 geometry Operational aspects of Landsat 8 and 9 geometry
Landsat 9 (L9) was launched on 27 September 2021. This spacecraft contained two instruments, the Operational Land Imager-2 (OLI-2) and Thermal Infrared Sensor-2 (TIRS-2), that allow for a continuation of the Landsat program and the mission to acquire multi-spectral observations of the globe on a moderate scale. Following a period of commissioning, during which time the spacecraft and...
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Michael J. Choate, Rajagopalan Rengarajan, Nahid Hasan, Alex Denevan, Kathryn Ruslander
Maps of active layer thickness in northern Alaska by upscaling P-band polarimetric synthetic aperture radar retrievals Maps of active layer thickness in northern Alaska by upscaling P-band polarimetric synthetic aperture radar retrievals
Extensive, detailed information on the spatial distribution of active layer thickness (ALT) in northern Alaska and how it evolves over time could greatly aid efforts to assess the effects of climate change on the region and also help to quantify greenhouse gas emissions generated due to permafrost thaw. For this reason, we have been developing high-resolution maps of ALT throughout...
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Jane Whitcomb, Richard Chen, Daniel Clewley, John Kimball, Neal Pastick, Yonghong Yi, Mahta Moghaddam
Characterizing urban heat islands across 50 major cities in the United States Characterizing urban heat islands across 50 major cities in the United States
Urban development and associated land-cover and land-use change alters the environment. The continued increase of developed land changes the Earth’s ecosystems and affects the resources provided to society. During the last 40 years, urban population in the United States has increased by more than 6.3 percent, and more than 80 percent of the U.S. population resides in urban areas. One of...
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George Xian
Implementing a dual-spectrometer approach for improved surface reflectance estimation Implementing a dual-spectrometer approach for improved surface reflectance estimation
Surface reflectance measurement is an integral part of the vicarious calibration of satellite sensors and the validation of satellite-derived top-of-atmosphere (TOA) and surface reflectance products. A well-known practice for estimating surface reflectance is to conduct a field campaign with a spectrometer and a calibration panel, which is labor-intensive and expensive. To address this...
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Mahesh Shrestha, Joshua Mann, Emily Maddox, Terry Robbins, Jeffrey Irwin, Travis Kropuenske, Dennis Helder
System characterization report on the Pléiades Neo Imager System characterization report on the Pléiades Neo Imager
Executive Summary This report addresses system characterization of the Pléiades Neo satellite and is part of a series of system characterization reports produced and delivered by the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Cal/Val Center of Excellence. These reports present and detail the methodology and procedures for characterization; present technical and...
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Simon J. Cantrell, Aparajithan Sampath, James C. Vrabel, Paul Bresnahan, Cody Anderson, Minsu Kim, Seonkyung Park
Investigating permafrost carbon dynamics in Alaska with artificial intelligence Investigating permafrost carbon dynamics in Alaska with artificial intelligence
Positive feedbacks between permafrost degradation and the release of soil carbon into the atmosphere impact land–atmosphere interactions, disrupt the global carbon cycle, and accelerate climate change. The widespread distribution of thawing permafrost is causing a cascade of geophysical and biochemical disturbances with global impacts. Currently, few earth system models account for...
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Bradley Gay, Neal Pastick, Andreas Zufle, Amanda Armstrong, Kimberly Miner, J.J. Qu
A global long-term daily reanalysis of reference evapotranspiration for drought and food-security monitoring A global long-term daily reanalysis of reference evapotranspiration for drought and food-security monitoring
NOAA has developed a global reference evapotranspiration (ET0) reanalysis using the UN Food and Agriculture Organization formulation (FAO-56) of the Penman-Monteith equation forced by MERRA phase 2 (MERRA2) meteorological and radiative drivers. The NOAA ET0 reanalysis is provided daily from January 1, 1980 to the near-present at a resolution of 0.5° latitude × 0.625° longitude. The...
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Mike Hobbins, Timen Jansma, Daniel Sarmiento, Amy McNally, Tamuka Magadzire, Harikishan Jayanthi, Will Turner, Andrew Hoell, Greg Husak, Gabriel Senay, Olena Boiko, Michael Budde, Pamella Magone, Candida Dewes
Monitoring long-term changes of urban surface temperature using time-series land cover and remote sensing data across 50 major cities in the United States Monitoring long-term changes of urban surface temperature using time-series land cover and remote sensing data across 50 major cities in the United States
The increase of developed land changes the Earth’s ecosystems and, in doing so, impacts the natural environment and further affects the services it provides to humans. Urban growth and associated land cover transitions alter the thermal and physical properties of the land surface, resulting in surface temperature change in urban areas. In this study, we integrated both land cover and...
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George Xian, Hua Shi, Chase Mueller, Reza Hussain, Kristi Sayler, Daniel Howard