Western Geographic Science Center
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Fifty-years of advances in hyperspectral remote sensing of agriculture and vegetation: Summary, insights, and highlights of Volume IV: Advance applications in agricultural crops and natural vegetation
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Thenkabail, Prasad S.; Lyon, John G.; Huete, Alfredo Fifty-years of advances in hyperspectral remote sensing of agriculture and vegetation: Summary, insights, and highlights of Volume I: Hyperspectral processes, densors, and fata snalysis Vol II
This chapter provides a concise summary, insights, and highlights of the last 50 years of advances in hyperspectral remote sensing science pertaining to agriculture and vegetation. Topics covered in each of the 22 chapters of this Volume (Volume I: Hyperspectral Processes, Sensors, and Data Analysis) are discussed considering the strengths and...
Thenkabail, Prasad S.; Lyon, John G.; Huete, Alfredo Fifty-years of Advances in Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Agriculture and Vegetation: Summary, Insights, and Highlights of Volume III: Biophysical and Biochemical Characterization and Plant Species Studies
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Thenkabail, Prasad S.; Lyon, John G.; Huete, Alfredo Status of tidal marsh mapping for blue carbon inventories
Remote-sensing-based maps of tidal marshes, both of their extents and carbon stocks, will play a key role in conducting greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories.The U.N. Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre has produced a new Global Distribution of Salt Marsh dataset that estimates global salt marsh area at 5.5 Mha.A Tier 1–2 GHG...
Byrd, Kristin B.; Mcowen, Chris; Weatherdon, Lauren; Holmquist, James; Crooks, Stephen Uncertainty in United States coastal wetland greenhouse gas inventorying
Coastal wetlands store carbon dioxide (CO2) and emit CO2 and methane (CH4) making them an important part of greenhouse gas (GHG) inventorying. In the contiguous United States (CONUS), a coastal wetland inventory was recently calculated by combining maps of wetland type and change with soil, biomass, and CH4 flux data from a literature...
James Holmquist; Windham-Myers, Lisamarie; Blanca Bernal; Byrd, Kristin B.; Steve Crooks; Gonneea, Meagan; Nathan Herold; Sara Knox; Kroeger, Kevin D.; John McCombs; J. Patrick Megonigal; Lu Meng; James Morris; Ariana Sutton-Grier; Tiffany Troxler; Donald Weller A 30-m landsat-derived cropland extent product of Australia and China using random forest machine learning algorithm on Google Earth Engine cloud computing platform
Mapping high resolution (30-m or better) cropland extent over very large areas such as continents or large countries or regions accurately, precisely, repeatedly, and rapidly is of great importance for addressing the global food and water security challenges. Such cropland extent products capture individual farm fields, small or large, and are...
Teluguntla, Pardhasaradhi; Thenkabail, Prasad S.; Oliphant, Adam; Xiong, Jun N.; Gumma, Murali Krishna; Congalton, Russell G.; Yadav, Kamini; Huete, Alfredo Actinorhizal species influence plant and soil nitrogen status of semiarid shrub-dominated ecosystems in the western Great Basin, USA
Actinorhizal plants form symbiotic root associations with dinitrogen (N2) fixing Frankia and are abundant in North American cold deserts. However, the extent to which actinorhizal species are actively fixing N2 or altering ecosystem nitrogen (N) availability remains unclear. We used the 15N natural abundance...
Freund, Stephanie M.; Soper, Fiona M.; Poulson, Simon R.; Selmants, Paul C.; Sullivan, Benjamin W. Landsat time series analysis of fractional plant cover changes on abandoned energy development sites
Oil and natural gas development in the western United States has increased substantially in recent decades as technological advances like horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have made extraction more commercially viable. Oil and gas pads are often developed for production, and then capped, reclaimed, and left to recover when no longer...
Waller, Eric K.; Villarreal, Miguel L.; Poitras, Travis B.; Nauman, Travis W.; Duniway, Michael C. Adaptation with climate uncertainty: An examination of agricultural land use in the United States
This paper examines adaptation responses to climate change through adjustment of agricultural land use. The climate drivers we examine are changes in long-term climate normals (e.g., 10-year moving averages) and changes in inter-annual climate variability. Using US county level data over 1982 to 2012 from Census of Agriculture, we find that...
Mu, Jianhong E.; McCarl, Bruce A.; Sleeter, Benjamin M.; Abatzoglou, John T.; Zhang, Hongliang Mapping cropland fallow areas in myanmar to scale up sustainable intensification of pulse crops in the farming system
Cropland fallows are the next best-bet for intensification and extensification, leading to increased food production and adding to the nutritional basket. The agronomical suitability of these lands can decide the extent of usage of these lands. Myanmar’s agricultural land (over 13.8 Mha) has the potential to expand by another 50% into additional...
Gumma, Murali Krishna; Thenkabail, Prasad S.; Deevi, Kumara Charyulu; Mohammed, Irshad A.; Teluguntla, Pardhasaradhi; Oliphant, Adam; Xiong, Jun N.; Aye, Tin; Whittbread, Anthony M. Remote sensing analysis of vegetation at the San Carlos Apache Reservation, Arizona and surrounding area
Mapping of vegetation types is of great importance to the San Carlos Apache Tribe and their management of forestry and fire fuels. Various remote sensing techniques were applied to classify multitemporal Landsat 8 satellite data, vegetation index, and digital elevation model data. A multitiered unsupervised classification generated over 900...
Norman, Laura M.; Middleton, Barry R.; Wilson, Natalie R. Clusters of community exposure to coastal flooding hazards based on storm and sea level rise scenarios—implications for adaptation networks in the San Francisco Bay region
Sea level is projected to rise over the coming decades, further increasing the extent of flooding hazards in coastal communities. Efforts to address potential impacts from climate-driven coastal hazards have called for collaboration among communities to strengthen the application of best practices. However, communities currently lack practical...
Hummel, Michelle; Wood, Nathan J.; Schweikert, Amy; Stacey, Mark T.; Jones, Jeanne; Barnard, Patrick L.; Erikson, Li H.