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A project for monitoring trends in burn severity
Jeff Eidenshink, Brian Schwind, Ken Brewer, Zhi-Liang Zhu, Brad Quayle, and Elected officials and leaders of environmental agencies need information about the effects of large wildfires in order to set policy and make management decisions. Recently, the Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC), which implements and coordinates the National Fire Plan (NFP) and Federal Wildland Fire Management Polici
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Jeffery C. Eidenshink, Brian Schwind, Ken Brewer, Zhu-Liang Zhu, Brad Quayle, Stephen M. Howard
Topography-based analysis of Hurricane Katrina inundation of New Orleans
The ready availability of high-resolution, high-accuracy elevation data proved valuable for development of topographybased products to determine rough estimates of the inundation of New Orleans, La., from Hurricane Katrina. Because of its high level of spatial detail and vertical accuracy of elevation measurements, light detection and ranging (lidar) remote sensing is an excellent mapping technolo
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Dean Gesch
Integrating observation and statistical forecasts over sub-Saharan Africa to support Famine Early Warning
Famine early warning in Africa presents unique challenges and rewards. Hydrologic extremes must be tracked and anticipated over complex and changing climate regimes. The successful anticipation and interpretation of hydrologic shocks can initiate effective government response, saving lives and softening the impacts of droughts and floods. While both monitoring and forecast technologies continue to
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Chris Funk, James P. Verdin, Gregory Husak
TerraLook: Providing easy, no-cost access to satellite images for busy people and the technologically disinclined
Access to satellite images has been largely limited to communities with specialized tools and expertise, even though images could also benefit other communities. This situation has resulted in underutilization of the data. TerraLook, which consists of collections of georeferenced JPEG images and an open source toolkit to use them, makes satellite images available to those lacking experience with r
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G.N. Geller, Eugene A. Fosnight, Sambhudas Chaudhuri
Improved outgassing models for the Landsat-5 thematic mapper
The Landsat-5 (L5) Thematic Mapper (TM) detectors of the short wave infrared (SWIR) bands 5 and 7 are maintained on cryogenic temperatures to minimize thermal noise and allow adequate detection of scene energy. Over the instrument's lifetime, gain oscillations are observed in these bands that are caused by an ice-like contaminant that gradually builds up on the window of a dewar that houses these
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E. Micijevic, G. Chander, R. W. Hayes
Online catalog of world-wide test sites for the post-launch characterization and calibration of optical sensors
In an era when the number of Earth-observing satellites is rapidly growing and measurements from these sensors are used to answer increasingly urgent global issues, it is imperative that scientists and decision-makers rely on the accuracy of Earth-observing data products. The characterization and calibration of these sensors are vital to achieve an integrated Global Earth Observation System of Sys
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G. Chander, J.B. Christopherson, G. L. Stensaas, P. M. Teillet
Improving land resource evaluation using fuzzy neural network ensembles
Land evaluation factors often contain continuous-, discrete- and nominal-valued attributes. In traditional land evaluation, these different attributes are usually graded into categorical indexes by land resource experts, and the evaluation results rely heavily on experts' experiences. In order to overcome the shortcoming, we presented a fuzzy neural network ensemble method that did not require gra
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Yue-Ju Xue, Y.-M. HU, S.-G. Liu, J.-F. YANG, Q.-C. CHEN, S.-T. BAO
Multi-interferogram method for measuring interseismic deformation: Denali Fault, Alaska
Studies of interseismic strain accumulation are crucial to our understanding of continental deformation, the earthquake cycle and seismic hazard. By mapping small amounts of ground deformation over large spatial areas, InSAR has the potential to produce continental-scale maps of strain accumulation on active faults. However, most InSAR studies to date have focused on areas where the coherence is r
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Juliet Biggs, Tim Wright, Zhong Lu, Barry Parsons
Arc-parallel extension and fluid flow in an ancient accretionary wedge: The San Juan Islands, Washington
Structural analysis of the Lopez Structural Complex, a major Late Cretaceous terrane-bounding fault zone in the San Juan thrust system, reveals a sequence of events that provides insight into accretionary wedge mechanics and regional tectonics. After formation of regional ductile flattening and shear-related fabrics, the area was crosscut by brittle structures including: (1) southwest-vergent thru
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Elizabeth R. Schermer, J.R. Gillaspy, R. Lamb
Mapping an invasive plant, Phragmites australis, in coastal wetlands using the EO-1 Hyperion hyperspectral sensor
Mapping tools are needed to document the location and extent of Phragmites australis, a tall grass that invades coastal marshes throughout North America, displacing native plant species and degrading wetland habitat. Mapping Phragmites is particularly challenging in the freshwater Great Lakes coastal wetlands due to dynamic lake levels and vegetation diversity. We tested the applicability of Hyper
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Bruce Pengra, C.A. Johnston, Thomas R. Loveland
The CEOS constellation for land surface imaging
A constellation of satellites that routinely and frequently images the Earth's land surface in consistently calibrated wavelengths from the visible through the microwave and in spatial detail that ranges from sub-meter to hundreds of meters would offer enormous potential benefits to society. A well-designed and effectively operated land surface imaging satellite constellation could have great posi
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G. B. Bailey, Marsha Berger, H. Jeanjean, K. P. Gallo
Canadian and U.S. Cooperation for the development of standards and specifications for emerging mapping technologies
The mapping community is witnessing significant advances in available sensors, such as medium format digital cameras (MFDC) and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) systems. In this regard, the Digital Photogrammetry Research Group (DPRG) of the Department of Geomatics Engineering at the University of Calgary has been actively involved in the development of standards and specifications for regulati
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A. Habib, A. Jarvis, M. M. Al-Durgham, J. Lay, P. Quackenbush, G. Stensaas, D. Moe