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Divergent projections of future land use in the United States arising from different models and scenarios Divergent projections of future land use in the United States arising from different models and scenarios
A variety of land-use and land-cover (LULC) models operating at scales from local to global have been developed in recent years, including a number of models that provide spatially explicit, multi-class LULC projections for the conterminous United States. This diversity of modeling approaches raises the question: how consistent are their projections of future land use? We compared...
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Terry Sohl, Michael Wimberly, Volker Radeloff, David Theobald, Benjamin Sleeter
Applications for General Purpose Command Buffers: The Emergency Conjunction Avoidance Maneuver Applications for General Purpose Command Buffers: The Emergency Conjunction Avoidance Maneuver
A case study is presented for the use of Relative Operation Sequence (ROS) command buffers to quickly execute a propulsive maneuver to avoid a collision with space debris. In this process, a ROS is custom-built with a burn time and magnitude, uplinked to the spacecraft, and executed in 15 percent of the time of the previous method. This new process provides three primary benefits. First...
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Robert Scheid, Martin England
Carbon and energy fluxes in cropland ecosystems: a model-data comparison Carbon and energy fluxes in cropland ecosystems: a model-data comparison
Croplands are highly productive ecosystems that contribute to land–atmosphere exchange of carbon, energy, and water during their short growing seasons. We evaluated and compared net ecosystem exchange (NEE), latent heat flux (LE), and sensible heat flux (H) simulated by a suite of ecosystem models at five agricultural eddy covariance flux tower sites in the central United States as part...
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E. Lokupitiya, A. Denning, K. Schaefer, D. Ricciuto, R. Anderson, M. Arain, I. Baker, A. Barr, G. Chen, J.M. Chen, P. Ciais, D.R. Cook, M.C. Dietze, M. El Maayar, M. Fischer, R. Grant, D. Hollinger, C. Izaurralde, A. Jain, C.J. Kucharik, Z. Li, S. Liu, L. Li, R. Matamala, P. Peylin, D. Price, S. W. Running, A. Sahoo, M. Sprintsin, A.E. Suyker, H. Tian, Christina Tonitto, M.S. Torn, Hans Verbeeck, S.B. Verma, Y. Xue
Damage and recovery assessment of the Philippines' mangroves following Super Typhoon Haiyan Damage and recovery assessment of the Philippines' mangroves following Super Typhoon Haiyan
We quantified mangrove disturbance resulting from Super Typhoon Haiyan using a remote sensing approach. Mangrove areas were mapped prior to Haiyan using 30 m Landsat imagery and a supervised decision-tree classification. A time sequence of 250 m eMODIS data was used to monitor mangrove condition prior to, and following, Haiyan. Based on differences in eMODIS NDVI observations before and...
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Jordan Long, Chandra Giri, Jurgene H. Primavera, Mandar Trivedi
Cheatgrass percent cover change: Comparing recent estimates to climate change − Driven predictions in the Northern Great Basin Cheatgrass percent cover change: Comparing recent estimates to climate change − Driven predictions in the Northern Great Basin
Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.) is a highly invasive species in the Northern Great Basin that helps decrease fire return intervals. Fire fragments the shrub steppe and reduces its capacity to provide forage for livestock and wildlife and habitat critical to sagebrush obligates. Of particular interest is the greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), an obligate whose populations...
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Stephen Boyte, Bruce Wylie, Donald Major
Estimating carbon sequestration in the piedmont ecoregion of the United States from 1971 to 2010 Estimating carbon sequestration in the piedmont ecoregion of the United States from 1971 to 2010
Background: Human activities have diverse and profound impacts on ecosystem carbon cycles. The Piedmont ecoregion in the eastern United States has undergone significant land use and land cover change in the past few decades. The purpose of this study was to use newly available land use and land cover change data to quantify carbon changes within the ecoregion. Land use and land cover...
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Jinxun Liu, Benjamin Sleeter, Zhiliang Zhu, Linda S. Heath, Zhengxi Tan, Tamara Wilson, Jason Sherba, Decheng Zhou
Global trends in satellite-based emergency mapping Global trends in satellite-based emergency mapping
Over the past 15 years, scientists and disaster responders have increasingly used satellite-based Earth observations for global rapid assessment of disaster situations. We review global trends in satellite rapid response and emergency mapping from 2000 to 2014, analyzing more than 1000 incidents in which satellite monitoring was used for assessing major disaster situations. We provide a...
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Stefan Voigt, Fabio Giulio-Tonolo, Josh Lyons, Jan Kucera, Brenda Jones, Tobias Schneiderhan, Gabriel Platzeck, Kazuya Kaku, Manzul Hazarika, Lorant Czaran, Suju Li, Wendi Pedersen, Godstime James, Catherine Proy, Denis Muthike, Jerome Bequignon, Debarati Guha-Sapir
Landsat—The watchman that never sleeps Landsat—The watchman that never sleeps
In western North America, where infestations of mountain pine beetles continue to ravage thousands of acres of forest lands, Landsat satellites bear witness to the onslaught in a way that neither humans nor most other satellites can see.
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Steven Young
When wildfire damage threatens humans, Landsat provides answers When wildfire damage threatens humans, Landsat provides answers
A wildfire’s devastation of forest and rangeland seldom ends when the last embers die. In the western United States, rain on a scorched mountainside can turn ash into mudslides. Debris flows unleashed by rainstorms can put nearby homes into harm’s way and send people scrambling for safety. The infrared capabilities of Landsat satellite imagery provide vita information about potential...
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Steven Young
Preface: Impacts of extreme climate events and disturbances on carbon dynamics Preface: Impacts of extreme climate events and disturbances on carbon dynamics
The impacts of extreme climate events and disturbances (ECE&D) on the carbon cycle have received growing attention in recent years. This special issue showcases a collection of recent advances in understanding the impacts of ECE&D on carbon cycling. Notable advances include quantifying how harvesting activities impact forest structure, carbon pool dynamics, and recovery processes...
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Jingfeng Xiao, Shuguang Liu, Paul C. Stoy
Landsat Science Team: 2016 Winter meeting summary Landsat Science Team: 2016 Winter meeting summary
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Todd Schroeder, Thomas Loveland, Mike Wulder, James Irons
Modeled historical land use and land cover for the conterminous United States Modeled historical land use and land cover for the conterminous United States
The landscape of the conterminous United States has changed dramatically over the last 200 years, with agricultural land use, urban expansion, forestry, and other anthropogenic activities altering land cover across vast swaths of the country. While land use and land cover (LULC) models have been developed to model potential future LULC change, few efforts have focused on recreating...
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Terry Sohl, Ryan Reker, Michelle A. Bouchard, Kristi Sayler, Jordan Dornbierer, Steve Wika, Robert Quenzer, Aaron Friesz