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Thematic accuracy of the NLCD 2001 land cover for the conterminous United States
The land-cover thematic accuracy of NLCD 2001 was assessed from a probability-sample of 15,000 pixels. Nationwide, NLCD 2001 overall Anderson Level II and Level I accuracies were 78.7% and 85.3%, respectively. By comparison, overall accuracies at Level II and Level I for the NLCD 1992 were 58% and 80%. Forest and cropland were two classes showing substantial improvements in accuracy in NLCD 2001 r
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J.D. Wickham, S.V. Stehman, J.A. Fry, J.H. Smith, Collin G. Homer
The vegetation outlook (VegOut): a new method for predicting vegetation seasonal greenness
The vegetation outlook (VegOut) is a geospatial tool for predicting general vegetation condition patterns across large areas. VegOut predicts a standardized seasonal greenness (SSG) measure, which represents a general indicator of relative vegetation health. VegOut predicts SSG values at multiple time steps (two to six weeks into the future) based on the analysis of "historical patterns" (i.e., pa
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T. Tadesse, B. Wardlow, M. Hayes, M. Svoboda, J. Brown
Geometric evaluation and validation of aerial and satellite data using Sioux Falls Geometric test range
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Aparajithan Sampath, Donald Moe, Jon Christopherson, Gregory L. Stensaas
Making lidar more photogenic: creating band combinations from lidar information
Over the past five to ten years the use and applicability of light detection and ranging (lidar) technology has increased dramatically. As a result, an almost exponential amount of lidar data is being collected across the country for a wide range of applications, and it is currently the technology of choice for high resolution terrain model creation, 3-dimensional city and infrastructure modeling,
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Jason M. Stoker
A procedure for radiometric recalibration of Landsat 5 TM reflective-band data
From the Landsat program's inception in 1972 to the present, the Earth science user community has been benefiting from a historical record of remotely sensed data. The multispectral data from the Landsat 5 (L5) Thematic Mapper (TM) sensor provide the backbone for this extensive archive. Historically, the radiometric calibration procedure for the L5 TM imagery used the detectors' response to the in
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G. Chander, M.O. Haque, E. Micijevic, J. A. Barsi
A self-trained classification technique for producing 30 m percent-water maps from Landsat data
Small bodies of water can be mapped with moderate-resolution satellite data using methods where water is mapped as subpixel fractions using field measurements or high-resolution images as training datasets. A new method, developed from a regression-tree technique, uses a 30 m Landsat image for training the regression tree that, in turn, is applied to the same image to map subpixel water. The self-
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Jennifer R. Rover, Bruce K. Wylie, Lei Ji
An overview of sensor calibration inter-comparison and applications
Long-term climate data records (CDR) are often constructed using observations made by multiple Earth observing sensors over a broad range of spectra and a large scale in both time and space. These sensors can be of the same or different types operated on the same or different platforms. They can be developed and built with different technologies and are likely operated over different time spans. I
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Xiaoxiong Xiong, Changyong Cao, Gyanesh Chander
Archiving strategy for USGS EROS center and our future direction
The U. S. Geological Survey's Earth Resources Observation and Science Center has the responsibility to acquire, manage, and preserve our Nation's land observations. These records are obtained primarily from airplanes and satellites dating back to the 1930s. The ability to compare landscapes from the past with current information enables change analysis at local and global scales. With new observat
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John Faundeen
Characterizing 6 August 2007 Crandall Canyon mine collapse from ALOS PALSAR InSAR
We used ALOS InSAR images to study land surface deformation over the Crandall Canyon mine in Utah, which collapsed on 6 August 2007 and killed six miners. The collapse was registered as a ML 3.9 seismic event. An InSAR image spanning the time of the collapse shows 25–30 cm surface subsidence over the mine. We used distributed dislocation sources to model the deformation field, and found that a col
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Zhong Lu, Charles Wicks
The need for simultaneous evaluation of ecosystem services and land use change
We are living in a period of massive global change. This rate of change may be almost without precedent in geologic history (1). Even the most remote areas of the planet are influenced by human activities. Modern landscapes have been highly modified to accommodate a growing human population that the United Nations has forecast to peak at 9.1 billion by 2050. Over this past century, reliance on ser
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Ned H. Euliss, Loren M. Smith, Shu-Guang Liu, Min Feng, David M. Mushet, Roger F. Auch, Thomas R. Loveland
A spectral index for estimating soil salinity in the Yellow River Delta region of China using EO-1 Hyperion data
Soil salinization is one of the most common land degradation processes. In this study, spectral measurements of saline soil samples collected from the Yellow River Delta region of China were conducted in laboratory and hyperspectral data were acquired from an EO-1 Hyperion sensor to quantitatively map soil salinity in the region. A soil salinity spectral index (SSI) was constructed from continuum-
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Yongling Weng, Peng Gong, Zhiliang Zhu
Climate-driven interannual variability in net ecosystem exchange in the Northern Great Plains grasslands
The Northern Great Plains grasslands respond differently under various climatic conditions; however, there have been no detailed studies investigating the interannual variability in carbon exchange across the entire Northern Great Plains grassland ecosystem. We developed a piecewise regression model to integrate flux tower data with remotely sensed data and mapped the 8-d and 500-m net ecosystem e
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Liping Zhang, Bruce K. Wylie, Lei Ji, Tagir G. Gilmanov, Larry L. Tieszen