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Elastic rebound following the Kocaeli earthquake, Turkey, recorded using synthetic aperture radar interferometry
A basic model incorporating satellite synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry of the fault rupture zone that formed during the Kocaeli earthquake of August 17, 1999, documents the elastic rebound that resulted from the concomitant elastic strain release along the North Anatolian fault. For pure strike-slip faults, the elastic rebound function derived from SAR interferometry is directly inver
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Larry Mayer, Zhong Lu
The Landsat 7 mission: terrestrial research and applications for the 21st century
The Landsat Earth observation approach introduced in 1972 created a new way of monitoring land cover and land use globally. The Landsat 7 mission, successfully launched on April 15, 1999, continues those observations and demonstrates significant progress in precise numerical radiometry, spectral differentiation, and seasonally repetitive monitoring. Substantial improvements in calibration procedur
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Samuel N. Goward, Jeffrey G. Masek, Darrel L. Williams, James R. Irons, R.J. Thompson
Methods used to create the North American soil organic Carbon digital database— Assessment methods for soils C pools
No abstract available.
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R. Lacelle, S. Waltman, N.B. Bliss, F. Orozco-Chavez
National digital elevation program (NDEP)
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K. Osborn, J. List, D.B. Gesch, J. Crowe, G. Merrill, E. Constance, J. Mauck, C. Lund, V. Caruso, J. Kosovich
Monthly fractional green vegetation cover associated with land cover classes of the conterminous USA
The land cover classes developed under the coordination of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Data and Information System (IGBP-DIS) have been analyzed for a study area that includes the Conterminous United States and portions of Mexico and Canada. The 1-km resolution data have been analyzed to produce a gridded data set that includes within each 20-km grid cell: 1) the three most dom
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Kevin P. Gallo, Dan Tarpley, Ken Mitchell, Ivan Csiszar, Timothy W. Owen, Bradley C. Reed
Sky type discrimination using a ground-based sun photometer
A 2-year feasibility study was conducted at the USGS EROS Data Center, South Dakota (43.733°N, 96.6167°W) to assess whether a four-band, ground-based, sun photometer could be used to discriminate sky types. The results indicate that unique spectral signatures do exist between sunny skies (including clear and hazy skies) and cirrus, and cirrostratus, altocumulus or fair-weather cumulus, and thin st
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Thomas P. DeFelice, Bruce K. Wylie
Cloud characterization and clear-sky correction from Landsat-7
Landsat, with its wide swath and high resolution, fills an important mesoscale gap between atmospheric variations seen on a few kilometer scale by local surface instrumentation and the global view of coarser resolution satellites such as MODIS. In this important scale range, Landsat reveals radiative effects on the few hundred-meter scale of common photon mean-free-paths, typical of scattering in
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Robert F. Cahalan, L. Oreopoulos, G. Wen, S. Marshak, S. -C. Tsay, Tom DeFelice
International collaboration: The cornerstone of satellite land remote sensing in the 21st century
Satellite land remotely sensed data are used by scientists and resource managers world-wide to study similar multidisciplinary earth science problems. Most of their information requirements can be met by a small number of satellite sensor types. Moderate-resolution resource satellites and low-resolution environmental satellites are the most prominent of these, and they are the focus of this paper.
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G. Bryan Bailey, Donald T. Lauer, David M. Carneggie
Moss and lichen cover mapping at local and regional scales in the boreal forest ecosystem of central Canada
Mosses and lichens are important components of boreal landscapes [Vitt et al., 1994; Bubier et al., 1997]. They affect plant productivity and belowground carbon sequestration and alter the surface runoff and energy balance. We report the use of multiresolution satellite data to map moss and lichens over the BOREAS region at a 10 m, 30 m, and 1 km scales. Our moss and lichen classification at the 1
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G. Rapalee, L. T. Steyaert, F.G. Hall
Interactive visualization of vegetation dynamics
Satellite imagery provides a mechanism for observing seasonal dynamics of the landscape that have implications for near real-time monitoring of agriculture, forest, and range resources. This study illustrates a technique for visualizing timely information on key events during the growing season (e.g., onset, peak, duration, and end of growing season), as well as the status of the current growing s
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B. C. Reed, D. Swets, L. Bard, J. Brown, James Rowland
Development of a seamless multisource topographic/bathymetric elevation model of Tampa Bay
Many applications of geospatial data in coastal environments require knowledge of the nearshore topography and bathymetry. However, because existing topographic and bathymetric data have been collected independently for different purposes, it has been difficult to use them together at the land/water interface owing to differences in format, projection, resolution, accuracy, and datums. As a first
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Dean Gesch, Robert Wilson
MODIS land data at the EROS data center DAAC
The US Geological Survey's (USGS) Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center (EDC) in Sioux Falls, SD, USA, is the primary national archive for land processes data and one of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAAC) for the Earth Observing System (EOS). One of EDC's functions as a DAAC is the archival and distribution of Moder
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Calli B. Jenkerson, B. C. Reed