Ecosystem Performance, Productivity and Sustainability
Remotely-sensed data forms the backbone of the large-scale maps, models and assessments created at EROS to advance the understanding of Ecosystem Performance, Productivity and Sustainability.
Detailed data from cooperators with site-specific flux towers are integrated to create models of a land cover type - grassland, for example – which can be simulated across a region. Tasks describe exchanges of Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) and Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE) in the Northern Great Plains and other regions.
Cooperation with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), universities, and others provides the ground data to develop and validate pixel-specific models of ecosystem performance based on the remote sensing archive, climate, and site potential.
This modeling, EROS’ rich archival resources and the research team’s special ability to combine near real-time, remotely-sensed data with other large spatial data sets, also allows for the evaluation, mapping, and dynamic monitoring of ecosystem performance.
The work is funded through the USGS Land Change Science (LCS) Program, which strives to understand the nation's most pressing environmental, natural resource, and economic challenges by providing the information and tools necessary and identifying possible solutions.
Additional funding comes from USGS National Land Imaging program, BLM, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS).
EROS’ remote sensing ecology projects include permafrost and biomass mapping in Alaska, the study of invasive grass in the Great Basin, and the identification of lands with the potential for biofuels feedstock. Follow these links for more detailed information on those projects:
- Monitoring Arctic and boreal ecosystems through the assimilation of field-based studies, remote sensing, and modelling
- Cheatgrass Dieoff Time-series Dynamics, 2000-2010
- Identifying Lands Suitable for Biofuel Feedstock Crops by Dynamic Modeling of Ecosystem Performance
- Carbon Flux Quantification in the Great Plains
Below are other science projects associated with this project.
Below are publications associated with this project.
Distribution of near-surface permafrost in Alaska: estimates of present and future conditions
Mapping grassland productivity with 250-m eMODIS NDVI and SSURGO database over the Greater Platte River Basin, USA
NDVI saturation adjustment: a new approach for improving cropland performance estimates in the Greater Platte River Basin, USA
CO2 uptake and ecophysiological parameters of the grain crops of midcontinent North America: estimates from flux tower measurements
Establishing water body areal extent trends in interior Alaska from multi-temporal Landsat data
A multi-sensor lidar, multi-spectral and multi-angular approach for mapping canopy height in boreal forest regions
Ecosystem performance monitoring of rangelands by integrating modeling and remote sensing
Estimating aboveground biomass in interior Alaska with Landsat data and field measurements
Crop classification modelling using remote sensing and environmental data in the Greater Platte River Basin, USA
Airborne electromagnetic imaging of discontinuous permafrost
Mapping carbon flux uncertainty and selecting optimal locations for future flux towers in the Great Plains
Evaluation of carbon fluxes and trends (2000-2008) in the Greater Platte River Basin: a sustainability study on the potential biofuel feedstock development
Identifying grasslands suitable for cellulosic feedstock crops in the Greater Platte River Basin: dynamic modeling of ecosystem performance with 250 m eMODIS
Remotely-sensed data forms the backbone of the large-scale maps, models and assessments created at EROS to advance the understanding of Ecosystem Performance, Productivity and Sustainability.
Detailed data from cooperators with site-specific flux towers are integrated to create models of a land cover type - grassland, for example – which can be simulated across a region. Tasks describe exchanges of Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) and Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE) in the Northern Great Plains and other regions.
Cooperation with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), universities, and others provides the ground data to develop and validate pixel-specific models of ecosystem performance based on the remote sensing archive, climate, and site potential.
This modeling, EROS’ rich archival resources and the research team’s special ability to combine near real-time, remotely-sensed data with other large spatial data sets, also allows for the evaluation, mapping, and dynamic monitoring of ecosystem performance.
The work is funded through the USGS Land Change Science (LCS) Program, which strives to understand the nation's most pressing environmental, natural resource, and economic challenges by providing the information and tools necessary and identifying possible solutions.
Additional funding comes from USGS National Land Imaging program, BLM, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS).
EROS’ remote sensing ecology projects include permafrost and biomass mapping in Alaska, the study of invasive grass in the Great Basin, and the identification of lands with the potential for biofuels feedstock. Follow these links for more detailed information on those projects:
- Monitoring Arctic and boreal ecosystems through the assimilation of field-based studies, remote sensing, and modelling
- Cheatgrass Dieoff Time-series Dynamics, 2000-2010
- Identifying Lands Suitable for Biofuel Feedstock Crops by Dynamic Modeling of Ecosystem Performance
- Carbon Flux Quantification in the Great Plains
Below are other science projects associated with this project.
Below are publications associated with this project.