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The National Atlas of the United States now on the Web and in print
The National Atlas of the United States of America® was published in 1970 as a book, with more than 400 pages and 765 maps. Since then, many people have called for a new edition, and many maps have been published as single sheets using the classic National Atlas 1:7,500,000-scale format. Work began in 1997 on a new, web-based edition of the National Atlas of the United States®. Accessible at http:
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John A. Hutchinson
The USGS/EROS Data Center produces seamless hydrologic derivatives with GIS
Increasingly, many local, state, and federal agencies mandated to manage water resources are finding that their needs are not being met by existing digital data sets. Current national coverage of digital data sets, such as drainage basin boundaries and consistent elevation-derived parameters, does not exist or is not of a suitable scale or consistency to allow management of small or midsize waters
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Sandra K. Franken
An evaluation of gap-filled Landsat SLC-off imagery for wildland fire burn severity mapping
n May 31, 2003 unusual artifacts appeared within image data collected by the Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM+) instrument on-board the Landsat 7 spacecraft. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), with the support of NASA, has been working to find a means of compensating for the data gaps that result from a failure of the instrument’s scan line corrector (SLC). The SLC is an electromechanical device
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Stephen M. Howard, James M. Lacasse
Urban growth in American cities : glimpses of U.S. urbanization
The Earth's surface is changing rapidly. Changes are local, regional, national, and even global in scope. Some changes have natural causes, such as earthquakes or drought. Other changes, such as urban expansion, agricultural intensification, resource extraction, and water resources development, are examples of human-induced change that have significant impact upon people, the economy, and resource
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Roger Auch, Janis Taylor, William Acevedo
Development of a 2001 National Land Cover Database for the United States
Multi-Resolution Land Characterization 2001 (MRLC 2001) is a second-generation Federal consortium designed to create an updated pool of nation-wide Landsat 5 and 7 imagery and derive a second-generation National Land Cover Database (NLCD 2001). The objectives of this multi-layer, multi-source database are two fold: first, to provide consistent land cover for all 50 States, and second, to provide a
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Collin G. Homer, Chengquan Huang, Limin Yang, Bruce K. Wylie, Michael Coan
A priori evaluation of two-stage cluster sampling for accuracy assessment of large-area land-cover maps
Two-stage cluster sampling reduces the cost of collecting accuracy assessment reference data by constraining sample elements to fall within a limited number of geographic domains (clusters). However, because classification error is typically positively spatially correlated, within-cluster correlation may reduce the precision of the accuracy estimates. The detailed population information to quantif
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J.D. Wickham, S.V. Stehman, J.H. Smith, T.G. Wade, L. Yang
Hydrologic Effects of the 1988 Galena Fire, Black Hills Area, South Dakota
The Galena Fire burned about 16,788 acres of primarily ponderosa pine forest during July 5-8, 1988, in the Black Hills area of South Dakota. The fire burned primarily within the Grace Coolidge Creek drainage basin and almost entirely within the boundaries of Custer State Park. A U.S. Geological Survey gaging station with streamflow records dating back to 1977 was located along Grace Coolidge Creek
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Daniel G. Driscoll, Janet M. Carter, Donald O. Ohlen
Ecoregions and ecoregionalization: geographical and ecological perspectives
Ecoregions, i.e., areas exhibiting relative homogeneity of ecosystems, are units of analysis that are increasingly important in environmental assessment and management. Ecoregions provide a holistic framework for flexible, comparative analysis of complex environmental problems. Ecoregions mapping has intellectual foundations in both geography and ecology. However, a hallmark of ecoregions mapping
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Thomas R. Loveland, James W. Merchant
The characteristics and interpretability of land surface change and implications for project design
The need for comprehensive, accurate information on land-cover change has never been greater. While remotely sensed imagery affords the opportunity to provide information on land-cover change over large geographic expanses at a relatively low cost, the characteristics of land-surface change bring into question the suitability of many commonly used methodologies. Algorithm-based methodologies to de
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Terry L. Sohl, Alisa L. Gallant, Thomas R. Loveland
Gross primary productivity of the true steppe in central Asia in relation to NDVI: scaling up CO2 fluxes
Compared to other characteristics of CO2 exchange, gross primary productivity (P g ) is most directly related to photosynthetic activity. Until recently, it was considered difficult to obtain measurement-based P g . The objective of our study was to evaluate if P g can be estimated from continuous CO2 flux measurements using nonlinear identification of the nonrectangular hyperbolic model of ecosys
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Tagir G. Gilmanov, Douglas A. Johnson, Nicanor Z. Saliendra, Kanat Akshalov, Bruce K. Wylie
A spatial regression procedure for evaluating the relationship between AVHRR-NDVI and climate in the northern Great Plains
The relationship between vegetation and climate in the grassland and cropland of the northern US Great Plains was investigated with Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) (1989–1993) images derived from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), and climate data from automated weather stations. The relationship was quantified using a spatial regression technique that adjusts for
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Lei Ji, Albert J. Peters
An automated approach to mapping corn from Landsat imagery
Most land cover maps generated from Landsat imagery involve classification of a wide variety of land cover types, whereas some studies may only need spatial information on a single cover type. For example, we required a map of corn in order to estimate exposure to agricultural chemicals for an environmental epidemiology study. Traditional classification techniques, which require the collection and
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S.K. Maxwell, J.R. Nuckols, M.H. Ward, R.M. Hoffer