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USGS EROS Interdisciplinary Science Collaboration with BRD, GD, GIO, and WRD
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The USGS Land Cover Institute
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Land Cover Institute (LCI) is located at the Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It provides a focal point for advancing USGS land cover studies and applications. Satellite images and other remotely sensed data play an important role in this research. Land Cover scientists investigate new ways to use satellite im
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Christopher Barnes
Understanding Amphibian Declines Through Geographic Approaches
Growing concern over worldwide amphibian declines warrants serious examination. Amphibians are important to the proper functioning of ecosystems and provide many direct benefits to humans in the form of pest and disease control, pharmaceutical compounds, and even food. Amphibians have permeable skin and rely on both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems during different seasons and stages of their li
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Alisa Gallant
Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET)
The FEWS NET mission is to identify potentially food-insecure conditions early through the provision of timely and analytical hazard and vulnerability information. U.S. Government decision-makers act on this information to authorize mitigation and response activities. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) FEWS NET provides tools and data for monitoring and forecasting the incidence of drought and floo
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James P. Verdin
An agreement coefficient for image comparison
Combination of datasets acquired from different sensor systems is necessary to construct a long time-series dataset for remotely sensed land-surface variables. Assessment of the agreement of the data derived from various sources is an important issue in understanding the data continuity through the time-series. Some traditional measures, including correlation coefficient, coefficient of determinat
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Lei Ji, Kevin Gallo
The global lambda visualization facility: An international ultra-high-definition wide-area visualization collaboratory
The research outlined in this paper marks an initial global cooperative effort between visualization and collaboration researchers to build a persistent virtual visualization facility linked by ultra-high-speed optical networks. The goal is to enable the comprehensive and synergistic research and development of the necessary hardware, software and interaction techniques to realize the next generat
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J. Leigh, L. Renambot, Aaron H. Johnson, B. Jeong, R. Jagodic, N. Schwarz, D. Svistula, R. Singh, J. Aguilera, X. Wang, V. Vishwanath, B. Lopez, D. Sandin, T. Peterka, J. Girado, R. Kooima, J. Ge, L. Long, A. Verlo, T.A. DeFanti, M. Brown, D. Cox, R. Patterson, P. Dorn, P. Wefel, S. Levy, J. Talandis, J. Reitzer, T. Prudhomme, T. Coffin, B. Davis, P. Wielinga, B. Stolk, Koo G. Bum, J. Kim, S. Han, B. Corrie, T. Zimmerman, P. Boulanger, M. Garcia
A 16-year time series of 1 km AVHRR satellite data of the conterminous United States and Alaska
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has developed a 16-year time series of vegetation condition information for the conterminous United States and Alaska using 1 km Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data. The AVHRR data have been processed using consistent methods that account for radiometric variability due to calibration uncertainty, the effects of the atmosphere on surface radiomet
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Jeff Eidenshink
Radiometric calibration stability of the EO-1 advanced land imager: 5 years on-orbit
The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) was developed as a prototype sensor for follow on missions to Landsat-7. It was launched in November 2000 on the Earth Observing One (EO-1) satellite as a nominal one-year technology demonstration mission. As of this writing, the sensor has continued to operate in excess of 5 years. Six of the ALl's nine multi-spectral (MS) bands and the panchromatic band have simila
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B. L. Markham, L. Ong, J. A. Barsi, J. A. Mendenhall, D. E. Lencioni, D. L. Helder, D. M. Hollaren, R. Morfitt
Long-term dynamics of production, respiration, and net CO2 exchange in two sagebrush-steppe ecosystems
We present a synthesis of long-term measurements of CO2 exchange in 2 US Intermountain West sagebrush-steppe ecosystems. The locations near Burns, Oregon (1995–2001), and Dubois, Idaho (1996–2001), are part of the AgriFlux Network of the Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Measurements of net ecosystem CO2 exchange (Fc) during the growing season were continuousl
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T.G. Gilmanov, T.J. Svejcar, D.A. Johnson, R.F. Angell, Nicanor Z. Saliendra, B.K. Wylie
Analysis of ecosystem controls on soil carbon source-sink relationships in the northwest Great Plains
Our ability to forecast the role of ecosystem processes in mitigating global greenhouse effects relies on understanding the driving forces on terrestrial C dynamics. This study evaluated the controls on soil organic C (SOC) changes from 1973 to 2000 in the northwest Great Plains. SOC source-sink relationships were quantified using the General Ensemble Biogeochemical Modeling System (GEMS) based on
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Z. Tan, S. Liu, C.A. Johnston, J. Liu, L.L. Tieszen
A method for mapping corn using the US Geological Survey 1992 National Land Cover Dataset
Long-term exposure to elevated nitrate levels in community drinking water supplies has been associated with an elevated risk of several cancers including non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, colon cancer, and bladder cancer. To estimate human exposure to nitrate, specific crop type information is needed as fertilizer application rates vary widely by crop type. Corn requires the highest application of nitrogen
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S.K. Maxwell, J.R. Nuckols, M.H. Ward
Using experimental and geospatial data to estimate regional carbon sequestration potential under no-till management
Conservation management of croplands at the plot scale has demonstrated a great potential to mitigate the greenhouse effect through sequestration of atmospheric carbon (C) into soil. This study estimated the potential of soil to sequester C through the conversion of croplands from conventional tillage (CT) to no-till (NT) in the East Central United States between 1992 and 2012. This study used the
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Z. Tan, R. Lal, S. Liu