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JuxtaView - A tool for interactive visualization of large imagery on scalable tiled displays
JuxtaView is a cluster-based application for viewing ultra-high-resolution images on scalable tiled displays. We present in JuxtaView, a new parallel computing and distributed memory approach for out-of-core montage visualization, using LambdaRAM, a software-based network-level cache system. The ultimate goal of JuxtaView is to enable a user to interactively roam through potentially terabytes of d
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N. K. Krishnaprasad, V. Vishwanath, S. Venkataraman, A. G. Rao, L. Renambot, J. Leigh, A.E. Johnson, B. Davis
Multi-sensor analysis of urban ecosystems
This study examines the synthesis of multiple space-based sensors to characterize the urban environment Single scene data (e.g., ASTER visible and near-IR surface reflectance, and land surface temperature data), multi-temporal data (e.g., one year of 16-day MODIS and AVHRR vegetation index data), and DMSP-OLS nighttime light data acquired in the early 1990s and 2000 were evaluated for urban ecosys
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Kevin P. Gallo, Lei Ji
Commentary: A cautionary tale regarding use of the National Land Cover Dataset 1992
Digital land-cover data are among the most popular data sources used in ecological research and natural resource management. However, processes for accurate land-cover classification over large regions are still evolving. We identified inconsistencies in the National Land Cover Dataset 1992, the most current and available representation of land cover for the conterminous United States. We also rep
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Wayne E. Thogmartin, Alisa L. Gallant, Melinda G. Knutson, Timothy J. Fox, Manuel J. Suarez
The effects of wavelet compression on Digital Elevation Models (DEMs)
This paper investigates the effects of lossy compression on floating-point digital elevation models using the discrete wavelet transform. The compression of elevation data poses a different set of problems and concerns than does the compression of images. Most notably, the usefulness of DEMs depends largely in the quality of their derivatives, such as slope and aspect. Three areas extracted from t
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M. J. Oimoen
Four years of Landsat-7 on-orbit geometric calibration and performance
Unlike its predecessors, Landsat-7 has undergone regular geometric and radiometric performance monitoring and calibration since launch in April 1999. This ongoing activity, which includes issuing quarterly updates to calibration parameters, has generated a wealth of geometric performance data over the four-year on-orbit period of operations. A suite of geometric characterization (measurement and e
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D.S. Lee, James C. Storey, M.J. Choate, R. W. Hayes
Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper outgassing effects
A periodic 3% to 5% variation in detector response affecting both image and internal calibrator (IC) data has been observed in bands 5 and 7 of the Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper. The source for this variation is thought to be an interference effect due to buildup of an ice-like contaminant film on a ZnSe window, covered with an antireflective coating (ARC), of the cooled dewar containing these detecto
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D. L. Helder, E. Micijevic
Report of the U.S. Geological Survey Lidar Workshop sponsored by the Land Remote Sensing Program and held in St. Petersburg, FL, November 2002
The first United States Geological Survey (USGS) Light Detection And Ranging (lidar) Workshop was held November 20-22, 2002 in St. Petersburg, Florida to bring together scientists and managers from across the agency. The workshop agenda focused on six themes: 1) current and future lidar technologies, 2) lidar applications within USGS science and disciplines, 3) calibration and accuracy assessment,
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Michael Crane, Tonya Clayton, Ellen Raabe, Jason M. Stoker, Larry Handley, Gerald W. Bawden, Karen Morgan, Vivian R. Queija
Transient volcano deformation sources imaged with interferometric synthetic aperture radar: Application to Seguam Island, Alaska
Thirty interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) images, spanning various intervals during 1992–2000, document coeruptive and posteruptive deformation of the 1992–1993 eruption on Seguam Island, Alaska. A procedure that combines standard damped least squares inverse methods and collective surfaces, identifies three dominant amorphous clusters of deformation point sources. Predictions genera
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Timothy Masterlark, Zhong Lu
Land cover mapping of North and Central America—Global Land Cover 2000
The Land Cover Map of North and Central America for the year 2000 (GLC 2000-NCA), prepared by NRCan/CCRS and USGS/EROS Data Centre (EDC) as a regional component of the Global Land Cover 2000 project, is the subject of this paper. A new mapping approach for transforming satellite observations acquired by the SPOT4/VGTETATION (VGT) sensor into land cover information is outlined. The procedure includ
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Rasim Latifovic, Zhi-Liang Zhu
Forecasting vegetation greenness with satellite and climate data
A new and unique vegetation greenness forecast (VGF) model was designed to predict future vegetation conditions to three months through the use of current and historical climate data and satellite imagery. The VGF model is implemented through a seasonality-adjusted autoregressive distributed-lag function, based on our finding that the normalized difference vegetation index is highly correlated wit
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Lei Ji, Albert J. Peters
Global land ice measurements from space (GLIMS): remote sensing and GIS investigations of the Earth's cryosphere
Concerns over greenhouse‐gas forcing and global temperatures have initiated research into understanding climate forcing and associated Earth‐system responses. A significant component is the Earth's cryosphere, as glacier‐related, feedback mechanisms govern atmospheric, hydrospheric and lithospheric response. Predicting the human and natural dimensions of climate‐induced environmental change requir
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Michael P. Bishop, Jeffrey A. Olsenholler, John F. Shroder, Roger G. Barry, Bruce H. Rasup, Andrew B. G. Bush, Luke Copland, John L. Dwyer, Andrew G. Fountain, Wilfried Haeberli, Andreas Kääb, Frank Paul, Dorothy K. Hall, Jeffrey S. Kargel, Bruce F. Molnia, Dennis C. Trabant, Rick L. Wessels
A geometric performance assessment of the EO-1 advanced land imager
The Earth Observing 1 (EO-1) Advanced Land Imager (ALI) demonstrates technology applicable to a successor system to the Landsat Thematic Mapper series. A study of the geometric performance characteristics of the ALI was conducted under the auspices of the EO-1 Science Validation Team. This study evaluated ALI performance with respect to absolute pointing knowledge, focal plane sensor chip assembly
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James C. Storey, M.J. Choate, D. J. Meyer