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Vegetative index for characterizing drought patterns
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James D. Rowland, A. Nadeau, J. C. Brock, R. W. Klaver, D. G. Moore, J. Lewis
Interpreting the state soil geographic database (STATSGO)
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D.J. Lytle, N.B. Bliss, S.W. Waltman
Land cover mapping with Spectrum
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S. Benjamin, J. M. White, D. Argiro, K. Lowell
Human transformation processes—origins and philosophy of a temporal database
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W. Acevedo, T.W. Foresman, J. T. Buchanan
The EDOP radar system on the high-altitude NASA ER-2 aircraft
The NASA ER-2 high-altitude (20 km) aircraft that emulates a satellite view of precipitation systems carries a variety of passive and active (lidar) remote sensing instruments. A new Doppler weather radar system at X band (9.6 GHz) called the ER-2 Doppler radar (EDOP) has been developed and flown on the ER-2 aircraft. EDOP is a fully coherent Doppler weather radar with fixed nadir and forward poin
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G.M. Heymsfield, S.W. Bidwell, I.J. Caylor, S. Ameen, S. Nicholson, W. Boncyk, L. Miller, D. Vandemark, P.E. Racette, L.R. Dod
Characteristics of the 1 km AVHRR data set for North America
The North America portion of a new global 1 km AVHRR time-series dataset was produced recently by the U.S. Geological Survey, EROS Data Center. Characteristics of the dataset were evaluated for scan-angle distribution, image area distortion as the result of map projection, distribution of high solar zenith angle, and cloud presence in image composites produced using maximum values of normalized di
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Z.-L. Zhu, L. Yang
Remote sensing of ephemeral water bodies in western Niger
Research was undertaken to evaluate the feasibility of monitoring the small ephemeral water bodies of the Sahel with the 1.1 km resolution data of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR). Twenty-one lakes of western Niger with good ground observation records were selected for examination. Thematic Mapper images from 1988 were firs
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J. P. Verdin
Spatial partitioning of environmental correlates of avian biodiversity in the conterminous United States
Classification and regression tree (CART) analysis was used to create hierarchically organized models of the distribution of bird species richness across the conterminous United States. Species richness data were taken from the Breeding Bird Survey and were related to climatic and land use data. We used a systematic spatial grid of approximately 12,500 hexagons, each approximately 640 square kilom
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R.J. O'Connor, M.T. Jones, D. White, C. Hunsaker, Tom Loveland, Bruce Jones, E. Preston
An approach for using AVHRR data to monitor U.S. great plains grasslands
Environmental monitoring requires regular observations regarding the status of the landscape- The concept behind most monitoring efforts using satellite data involve deriving normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) values or accumulating the NDVI over a specified time period. These efforts attempt to estimate the continuous growth of green biomass by using continuous additions of NDVI as a s
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B. C. Reed, Thomas R. Loveland, L.L. Tieszen
Reply to discussion by Chittaranjan Ray “Soil moisture sensors for continuous monitoring”
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Saud A. Amer
Integrating multisource land use and land cover data
As part of the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) land use and land cover (LULC) program, the USGS in cooperation with the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) is collecting and integrating LULC data for a standard USGS 1:100,000-scale product. The LULC data collection techniques include interpreting spectrally clustered Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) images; interpreting 1-meter resolution
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Bruce E. Wright, Mike Tait, K.F. Lins, J.S. Crawford, S.P. Benjamin, Jesslyn F. Brown
Historical Landsat data comparisons: illustrations of the Earth's changing surface
The U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) EROS Data Center (EDC) has managed the Landsat data archive for more than two decades. This archive provides a rich collection of information about the Earth's land surface. Major changes to the surface of the planet can be detected, measured, and analyzed using Landsat data. The effects of desertification, deforestation, pollution, cataclysmic volcanic activity
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