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Britt W Smith

Britt Smith is a Geographer with the Western Geographic Science Center and is located in Tucson, AZ.

Britt Smith researches land use and land cover change and is part of the Patterns in the Landscape - Analyses of Cause and Effect (PLACE) team. His focus has traditionally be on agricultural landscapes and is excited to branch into urban and other managed landscapes. His work seeks to inform decision makers, resource managers, and stakeholders by leveraging large datasets with cloud computing techniques

Education and Certifications

  • Ph.D. - 2018 - Natural Resources Management - Texas Tech University

  • M.S. - 2014 - Natural Resource Ecology and Management - Oklahoma State University

  • B.S. - 2009 - Environmental Science - University of Missouri - Kansas City

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Patterns in the Landscape – Analyses of Cause and Effect

Understanding the rates and causes of land-use/land-cover (LULC) change helps answer questions about what, where, how, and why the Earth’s surface is changing. Land-surface change results from human activities or natural processes like floods, droughts, and wildfires, and many of these change processes are observable in satellite imagery. The growing historical catalog of satellite images allows...
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Climate Research and Development Program, Western Geographic Science Center
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Patterns in the Landscape – Analyses of Cause and Effect

Understanding the rates and causes of land-use/land-cover (LULC) change helps answer questions about what, where, how, and why the Earth’s surface is changing. Land-surface change results from human activities or natural processes like floods, droughts, and wildfires, and many of these change processes are observable in satellite imagery. The growing historical catalog of satellite images allows...
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County-level maps of cropland surface water inundation measured from Landsat and MODIS

This dataset represents a summary of potential cropland inundation for the state of California applying high-frequency surface water map composites derived from two satellite remote sensing platforms (Landsat and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer [MODIS]) with high-quality cropland maps generated by the California Department of Water Resources (DWR). Using Google Earth Engine, we exami
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Climate Research and Development Program, Western Geographic Science Center

Using Landsat and MODIS satellite collections to examine extent, timing, and potential impacts of surface water inundation in California croplands☆

The state of California, United States of America produces many crop products that are both utilized domestically and exported throughout the world. With nearly 39,000 km2 of croplands, monitoring unintentional and intentional surface water inundation is important for water resource management and flood hazard readiness. We examine inundation dynamics in California croplands from 2003 to 2020 by i
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Britt Windsor Smith, Christopher E. Soulard, Jessica J. Walker, Anne Wein
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Western Geographic Science Center

DSWEmod - The production of high-frequency surface water map composites from daily MODIS images

Optical satellite imagery is commonly used for monitoring surface water dynamics, but clouds and cloud shadows present challenges in assembling complete water time series. To test whether the daily revisit rate of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite imagery can reduce cloud obstruction and improve high-frequency surface water mapping, we compared map results derived fro
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Christopher E. Soulard, Eric Waller, Jessica J. Walker, Roy Petrakis, Britt Windsor Smith
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Climate Research and Development Program, Western Geographic Science Center
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Cropland water in California: The view from space

This article is part of the Fall 2022 issue of the Earth Science Matters Newsletter. 

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