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Developing a flood monitoring system from remotely sensed data for the Limpopo basin
This paper describes the application of remotely sensed precipitation to the monitoring of floods in a region that regularly experiences extreme precipitation and flood events, often associated with cyclonic systems. Precipitation data, which are derived from spaceborne radar aboard the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission and from National Oceanic an
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K.O. Asante, R.D. Macuacua, G. A. Artan, R.W. Lietzow, J. P. Verdin
Comparison of outgassing models for the Landsat thematic mapper sensors
The Thematic Mapper (TM) is a multi-spectral electro-optical sensor featured onboard both the Landsat 4 (L4) and Landsat 5 (L5) satellites. TM sensors have seven spectral bands with center wavelengths of approximately 0.49, 0.56, 0.66, 0.83, 1.65, 11.5 and 2.21 μm, respectively. The visible near-infrared (VNIR) bands are located on the primary focal plane (PFP), and two short-wave infrared (SWIR)
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E. Micijevic, G. Chander
Evaluation and comparison of gross primary production estimates for the Northern Great Plains grasslands
Two spatially-explicit estimates of gross primary production (GPP) are available for the Northern Great Plains. An empirical piecewise regression (PWR) GPP model was developed from flux tower measurements to map carbon flux across the region. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) GPP model is a process-based model that uses flux tower data to calibrate its parameters. Verification a
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Li Zhang, Bruce K. Wylie, Thomas R. Loveland, Eugene A. Fosnight, Larry L. Tieszen, Lei Ji, Tagir Gilmanov
Performance evaluation of spectral vegetation indices using a statistical sensitivity function
A great number of spectral vegetation indices (VIs) have been developed to estimate biophysical parameters of vegetation. Traditional techniques for evaluating the performance of VIs are regression-based statistics, such as the coefficient of determination and root mean square error. These statistics, however, are not capable of quantifying the detailed relationship between VIs and biophysical par
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Lei Ji, Albert J. Peters
The effect of Appalachian mountaintop mining on interior forest
Southern Appalachian forests are predominantly interior because they are spatially extensive with little disturbance imposed by other uses of the land. Appalachian mountaintop mining increased substantially during the 1990s, posing a threat to the interior character of the forest. We used spatial convolution to identify interior forest at multiple scales on circa 1992 and 2001 land-cover maps of t
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James D. Wickham, K.H. Riitters, T.G. Wade, Michael Coan, Collin G. Homer
Late quaternary temperature record from buried soils of the North American Great Plains
We present the first comprehensive late Quaternary record of North American Great Plains temperature by assessing the behavior of the stable isotopic composition (δ13C) of buried soils. After examining the relationship between the δ13C of topsoil organic matter and July temperature from 61 native prairies within a latitudinal range of 46°–38°N, we applied the resulting regression equation to 64 pu
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L. Nordt, J. Von Fischer, L. Tieszen
Adaptive data-driven models for estimating carbon fluxes in the Northern Great Plains
Rangeland carbon fluxes are highly variable in both space and time. Given the expansive areas of rangelands, how rangelands respond to climatic variation, management, and soil potential is important to understanding carbon dynamics. Rangeland carbon fluxes associated with Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE) were measured from multiple year data sets at five flux tower locations in the Northern Great Plai
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B.K. Wylie, E. A. Fosnight, T.G. Gilmanov, A.B. Frank, J.A. Morgan, Marshall R. Haferkamp, T.P. Meyers
Litterfall production along successional and altitudinal gradients of subtropical monsoon evergreen broadleaved forests in Guangdong, China
Evaluation of litterfall production is important for understanding nutrient cycling, forest growth, successional pathways, and interactions with environmental variables in forest ecosystems. Litterfall was intensively studied during the period of 1982-2001 in two subtropical monsoon vegetation gradients in the Dinghushan Biosphere Reserve, Guangdong Province, China. The two gradients include: (1)
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G. Zhou, L. Guan, X. Wei, Dongxiao Zhang, Q. Zhang, J. Yan, D. Wen, J. Liu, S. Liu, Z. Huang, G. Kong, J. Mo, Q. Yu
Earlier famine warning possible using remote sensing and models
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M.E. Brown, C.C. Funk, G. Galu, R. Choularton
Consistency of L4 TM absolute calibration with respect to the L5 TM sensor based on near-simultaneous image acquisition
The Landsat archive provides more than 35 years of uninterrupted multispectral remotely sensed data of Earth observations. Since 1972, Landsat missions have carried different types of sensors, from the Return Beam Vidicon (RBV) camera to the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+). However, the Thematic Mapper (TM) sensors on Landsat 4 (L4) and Landsat 5 (L5), launched in 1982 and 1984 respectively,
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G. Chander, D. L. Helder, R. Malla, E. Micijevic, C. J. Mettler
Distribution of light and heavy fractions of soil organic carbon as related to land use and tillage practice
Mass distributions of different soil organic carbon (SOC) fractions are influenced by land use and management. Concentrations of C and N in light- and heavy fractions of bulk soils and aggregates in 0–20 cm were determined to evaluate the role of aggregation in SOC sequestration under conventional tillage (CT), no-till (NT), and forest treatments. Light- and heavy fractions of SOC were separated u
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Zhengxi Tan, R. Lal, L. Owens, R. C. Izaurralde
Determinants of elephant distribution at Nazinga Game Ranch, Burkina Faso
We used seasonal ground total counts and remote sensing and GIS technology to relate elephant (Loxodonta africana africana) distribution at Nazinga Game Ranch to environmental and anthropogenic factors. Variables used in analyses were normalized difference vegetation index, elevation, stream density, density of poaching and human illegal activities, distance to dams, distance to rivers, distance t
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Jonathan A. Jenks, Robert W. Klaver, Zeno W. Wicks