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Transboundary movement of airborne pollutants — A methodology for integrating spaceborne images and ground based data Transboundary movement of airborne pollutants — A methodology for integrating spaceborne images and ground based data

The availability of relevant and accurate environmental information is essential for environmental policy-makers. Recent improvements in satellite remote sensing technologies, groundbased monitors, and data access have resulted in the ability to observe and assess major atmospheric and ecological events around the world on a timely basis Each of these monitoring technologies reveals...
Authors
Jill Engel-Cox, Thomas DeFelice, Stefan Falk

Landsat 7 on-orbit modulation transfer function estimation Landsat 7 on-orbit modulation transfer function estimation

The Landsat 7 spacecraft and its Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) were launched on April 15, 1999. Pre-launch modeling of the ETM+ optical system predicted that modulation transfer function (MTF) performance would change on-orbit. A method was developed to monitor the along-scan MTF performance of the ETM+ sensor system using on-orbit data of the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in...
Authors
James Storey

Watershed delineation using the National Elevation Dataset and semiautomated techniques Watershed delineation using the National Elevation Dataset and semiautomated techniques

Federal, State, and local agencies have realized that currently available hydrologic units are not of sufficient scale for many applications. An interagency effort is under way to subdivide hydrologic units into smaller units called watersheds and subwatersheds. The National Elevation Dataset contains the best available elevation data merged into a seamless database for the entire United...
Authors
Jay Kost, Glenn Kelly

Development of a national seamless database of topography and hydrologic derivatives Development of a national seamless database of topography and hydrologic derivatives

The recent completion of the National Elevation Dataset (NED) and the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) has provided an avenue for nationwide development of topographically derived hydrologic data layers at a scale of 1:24,000. This multilayer dataset of hydrologic derivatives, entitled the Elevation Derivatives for National Applications (EDNA), is being developed by a consortium of...
Authors
Sandra Franken, Dean Tyler, Kristine Verdin

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 Merchant, Henry Bulley

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. Usery, Jeong Seong, Dan Steinwand

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. Izaurralde, L. Mann, Norman Bliss
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