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The 3D Elevation Program—Supporting Washington's economy
Washington State has a geographically diverse and spectacular landscape that is divided to the east and west by the largely volcanic mountains of the Cascade Range. Approximately 88 percent of the population lives in western Washington, mostly in urban areas. The climate is varied, with high precipitation and seasonal flooding in the western part of the State, while drier conditions are...
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Tom Carlson
Toward consistent change detection across irregular remote sensing time series observations
The use of remote sensing in time series analysis enables wall-to-wall monitoring of the land surface and is critical for assessing and understanding land cover and land use change and for understanding the Earth system as a whole. However, variability in remote sensing observation frequency through time and across space presents challenges for producing consistent change detection...
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Heather J. Tollerud, Zhe Zhu, Kelcy Smith, Danika F. Wellington, Reza Hussain, Donna Viola
Trends in tree cover change over three decades related to interannual climate variability and wildfire in California
The U.S. State of California has experienced frequent drought events, hotter temperatures and other disruptions to the climate system whose effects on ecosystems have been widely reported in recent decades. Studies primarily confined to specific vegetation communities or species, individual drought incidents, or analysis over a relatively short intervals, has limited our understanding of...
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Francis K Dwomoh, Roger F. Auch, Jesslyn F. Brown, Heather J. Tollerud
Ecological Coastal Units – Standardized global shoreline characteristics
A new set of resources is now available that describe global shoreline characteristics. High resolution (30 m), globally comprehensive Coastal Segment Units (CSUs) and Ecological Coastal Units (ECUs) were developed in a collaboration between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Esri, and the Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON). The data were produced from a segmentation and...
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Roger Sayre, Kevin Butler, Keith Van Graafeiland, Sean Breyer, Dawn Wright
Comparing line feature morphology with scale specific sinuosity distributions: A modified earth mover’s distance
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Barry J. Kronenfeld, Barbara Buttenfield, Ethan J. Shavers, Larry Stanislawski
Landsat 9 cross calibration under-fly of Landsat 8: Planning, and execution
During the early post-launch phase of the Landsat 9 mission, the Landsat 8 and 9 mission teams conducted a successful under-fly of Landsat 8 by Landsat 9, allowing for the near-simultaneous data collection of common Earth targets by the on-board sensors for cross-calibration. This effort, coordinated by the Landsat Calibration and Validation team, required contributions from various...
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Edward Kaita, Brian Markham, Md Obaidul Haque, Donald Dichmann, Aaron Gerace, Lawrence Leigh, Susan Good, Michael Schmidt, Christopher J. Crawford
Development of the LCMAP annual land cover product across Hawai'i
Following the completion of land cover and change (LCC) products for the conterminous United States (CONUS), the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS’s) Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection initiative has broadened the capability of characterizing continuous historical land change across the full Landsat records for Hawaiʻi at 30-meter resolution. One of the challenges of...
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Congcong Li, George Z. Xian, Danika F. Wellington, Kelcy Smith, Josephine Horton, Qiang Zhou
GeoImageNet: A multi-source natural feature benchmark dataset for GeoAI and supervised machine learning
The field of GeoAI or Geospatial Artificial Intelligence has undergone rapid development since 2017. It has been widely applied to address environmental and social science problems, from understanding climate change to tracking the spread of infectious disease. A foundational task in advancing GeoAI research is the creation of open, benchmark datasets to train and evaluate the...
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Wenwen Li, Sizhe Wang, Samantha Arundel, Chia-Yu Hsu
Open knowledge network roadmap: Powering the next data revolution
Open access to shared information is essential for the development and evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) and AI-powered solutions needed to address the complex challenges facing the nation and the world. The Open Knowledge Network (OKN), an interconnected network of knowledge graphs, would provide an essential public-data infrastructure for enabling an AI-driven future. It would...
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Chaitan Baru, Martin Halbert, Lara Campbell, Tess DeBlanc-Knowles, Jemin George, Wo Chang, Adam Pah, Douglas Maughan, Ilya Zaslavsky, Amanda Stathopoulos, Ellie Young, Kat Albrecht, Amit Sheth, Emanuel Sallinger, Katerine Osatuke, Angela Rizk-Jackson, Eric Jahn, Kenneth Berkowitz, Bandana Kar, Erica Smith, Krzystof Janowicz, Brian Handspicker, Esther Jackson, Lauren Sanders, Chengkai Li, Florence Hudson, Lilit Yeghiazarian, Cogan Shimizu, Glenn Ricart, Louiqa Raschid, Dalia E. Varanka, Greg Seaton, Luis Amaral, Oktie Hassanzadeh, Silviu Cucerzan, Matt Bishop, Ora Lassila, Sharat Israni, Matthew Lange, Pascal Hitzler, Ryan McGranaghan, Michael Cafarella, Paul Wormeli, Todd Bacastow, Sam Klein, Murat Omay, Sergio Baranzini, Ying Ding, Nariman Ammar
Scaling-up deep learning predictions of hydrography from IfSAR data in Alaska
The United States National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) is a database of vector features representing the surface water features for the country. The NHD was originally compiled from hydrographic content on U.S. Geological Survey topographic maps but is being updated with higher quality feature representations through flow-routing techniques that derive hydrography from high-resolution...
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Larry Stanislawski, Ethan J. Shavers, Alexander Duffy, Philip T. Thiem, Nattapon Jaroenchai, Shaowen Wang, Zhe Jiang, Barry J. Kronenfeld, Barbara P. Buttenfield
A geospatial knowledge graph prototype for national topographic mapping
Knowledge graphs are a form of database representation and handling that show the potential to better meet the challenges of data interoperability, semi-automated information reasoning, and information retrieval. Geospatial knowledge graphs (GKG) have at their core specialized forms of applied ontology that provide coherent spatial context to a domain of information including non-spatial...
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Dalia E. Varanka
A comprehensive assessment of mangrove species and carbon stock on Pohnpei, Micronesia
Mangrove forests are the most important ecosystems on Pohnpei Island, Federated States of Micronesia, as the island communities of the central Pacific rely on the forests for many essential services including protection from sea-level rise that is occurring at a greater pace than the global average. As part of a multi-component assessment to evaluate vulnerabilities of mangrove forests...
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Victoria Woltz, Elitsa I. Peneva-Reed, Zhiliang Zhu, Eric L. Bullock, Richard A. MacKenzie, Maybeleen Apwong, Ken Krauss, Dean B. Gesch