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Mapping the Surface Urban Heat Island effect using the Landsat Surface Temperature Product Mapping the Surface Urban Heat Island effect using the Landsat Surface Temperature Product
Urban development and associated land cover and land use change alter the thermal, hydrological, and physical properties of the land surface. Urban areas usually exhibit relatively warmer air and surface temperatures than surrounding non-urban lands, a phenomenon recognized as Surface Urban Heat Island (SUHI). As urban areas continue to develop and the climate continues to warm, it has...
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Chase Mueller, Reza Hussain, George Xian, Hua Shi, Saeed Arab
LANDFIRE LANDFIRE
Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools (LANDFIRE) is a key national geospatial data source for strategic fire and resource management planning and analysis. LANDFIRE is the first complete, nationally consistent collection of more than 25 geospatial layers, databases, and ecological models at a 30-meter resolution that describe disturbance, vegetation, fire, and fuel...
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Jennifer Long, Timothy D. Hatten
ECCOE Landsat quarterly Calibration and Validation report—Quarter 2, 2023 ECCOE Landsat quarterly Calibration and Validation report—Quarter 2, 2023
Executive Summary The U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Calibration and Validation (Cal/Val) Center of Excellence (ECCOE) focuses on improving the accuracy, precision, calibration, and product quality of remote-sensing data, leveraging years of multiscale optical system geometric and radiometric calibration and characterization experience. The ECCOE Landsat...
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Md Obaidul Haque, Rajagopalan Rengarajan, Mark Lubke, Nahid Hasan, Ashish Shrestha, Fatima Tuz Zafrin Tuli, Jerad L. Shaw, Alex Denevan, Shannon Franks, Kathryn Ruslander, Esad Micijevic, Michael Choate, Cody Anderson, Kurt Thome, Ed Kaita, Julia Barsi, Raviv Levy, Jeff Miller, Leibo Ding
The 50-year Landsat collection 2 archive The 50-year Landsat collection 2 archive
The Landsat global consolidated data archive now exceeds 50 years. In recognition of the need for consistently processed data across the Landsat satellite series, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) initiated collection-based processing of the entire archive that was processed as Collection 1 in 2016. In preparation for the data from the now successfully launched Landsat 9, the USGS...
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Christopher J. Crawford, David P. Roy, Saeed Arab, Christopher Barnes, Eric Vermote, Glynn Hulley, Aaron Gerace, Michael Choate, Christopher Engebretson, Esad Micijevic, Gail Schmidt, Cody Anderson, Martha Anderson, Michelle Bouchard, Bruce D. Cook, Ray Dittmeier, Danny Howard, Calli Jenkerson, Minsu Kim, Tania Kleyians, Tom Maiersperger, Chase Mueller, Christopher Neigh, Linda Owen, Benjamin Page, Nima Pahelvan, Rajagopalan Rengarajan, Jean-Claude Roger, Kristi Sayler, Pat Scaramuzza, Sergii Skakun, Lin Yan, Hankui Zhang, Zhe Zhu, Stephen Zahn
Developing satellite-estimated precipitation monthly reports for selected locations in the Republic of the Marshall Islands Developing satellite-estimated precipitation monthly reports for selected locations in the Republic of the Marshall Islands
The Republic of the Marshall Islands (also known as the Marshall Islands) is a nation of more than 30 low-lying atolls and islands, most of which are inhabited, dispersed across an Exclusive Economic Zone over 770,000 square miles in the tropical central north Pacific Ocean. Monitoring environmental conditions for potential drought risk is challenging in such a dispersed island nation...
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Gabriel Senay, David A. Helweg, Stefanie Kagone, John Taylor, Thomas Cecere, Tiare Eastmond, Amy Koch, Kurtis Nelson, Lajikit Rufus
Leveraging multimission satellite data for spatiotemporally coherent cyanoHAB monitoring Leveraging multimission satellite data for spatiotemporally coherent cyanoHAB monitoring
Cyanobacteria harmful algal blooms (cyanoHABs) present a critical public health challenge for aquatic resource and public health managers. Satellite remote sensing is well-positioned to aid in the identification and mapping of cyanoHABs and their dynamics, giving freshwater resource managers a tool for both rapid and long-term protection of public health. Monitoring cyanoHABs in lakes...
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Kate Fickas, Ryan O’Shea, Nima Pahlevan, Brandon Smith, Sarah Bartlett, Jennifer Wolny
2019 Forest Service–NASA Joint Applications Workshop: Satellite data to support natural resource management: A framework for aligning NASA products with land management agency needs 2019 Forest Service–NASA Joint Applications Workshop: Satellite data to support natural resource management: A framework for aligning NASA products with land management agency needs
In 2019, about 103 participants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service (Forest Service), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and other federal, private, and academic entities attended the Forest Service–NASA Joint Applications Workshop. The objective of this workshop was to increase awareness and understanding of the capabilities of NASA data...
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Matthew Reeves, E. Stavros, Nancy Glenn, Andy Hudak, Birgit Peterson, Amanda Armstrong, Everett Hinkley, Elizabeth Hoy, Jeff Atkins
Predicting exotic annual grass abundance in rangelands of the western United States using various precipitation scenarios Predicting exotic annual grass abundance in rangelands of the western United States using various precipitation scenarios
Expansion of exotic annual grass (EAG), such as cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.) and medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae [L.] Nevski), could cause irreversible changes to arid and semiarid rangeland ecosystems in the western United States. The distribution and abundance of EAG species are highly affected by weather variables such as temperature and precipitation. The study's goal is to
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Devendra Dahal, Stephen P. Boyte, Michael Oimoen
Summary of the Final Activities of the 2018-2023 Landsat Science Team Summary of the Final Activities of the 2018-2023 Landsat Science Team
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Christopher Neigh, Christopher J. Crawford, Ellie McGinty
Improvements and evaluation of the agro-hydrologic VegET model for large-area water budget analysis and drought monitoring Improvements and evaluation of the agro-hydrologic VegET model for large-area water budget analysis and drought monitoring
We enhanced the agro-hydrologic VegET model to include snow accumulation and melt processes and the separation of runoff into surface runoff and deep drainage. Driven by global weather datasets and parameterized by land surface phenology (LSP), the enhanced VegET model was implemented in the cloud to simulate daily soil moisture (SM), actual evapotranspiration (ETa), and runoff (R) for...
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Gabriel Senay, Stefanie Kagone, Gabriel Parrish, Kul Bikram Khand, Olena Boiko, Naga Manohar Velpuri
Calibration and validation for the Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) mission concept: Recommendations for a multi-sensor system for imaging spectroscopy and thermal imagery Calibration and validation for the Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) mission concept: Recommendations for a multi-sensor system for imaging spectroscopy and thermal imagery
The primary objective of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) mission is to measure biological, physical, chemical, and mineralogical features of the Earth's surface, realizing a key conceptual component of the envisioned NASA Earth System Observatory (ESO). SBG is planned to launch as a two-platform mission in the late 2020s, the...
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Kevin Turpie, Kimberly Casey, Christopher J. Crawford, Liane Guild, Hugh Kieffer, Guoqing Lin, Raymond Kokaly, Alok Shrestha, Cody Anderson, Shankar Ramaseri Chandra, Robert O. Green, Simon Hook, Constantine Lukashin, Kurt Thome
SaTSeaD: Satellite Triangulated Sea Depth open-source bathymetry module for NASA Ames Stereo Pipeline SaTSeaD: Satellite Triangulated Sea Depth open-source bathymetry module for NASA Ames Stereo Pipeline
We developed the first-ever bathymetric module for the NASA Ames Stereo Pipeline (ASP) open-source topographic software called Satellite Triangulated Sea Depth, or SaTSeaD, to derive nearshore bathymetry from stereo imagery. Correct bathymetry measurements depend on water surface elevation, and whereas previous methods considered the water surface horizontal, our bathymetric module...
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Monica Palaseanu-Lovejoy, Oleg Alexandrov, Jeffrey Danielson, Curt Storlazzi