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Assessing the accuracy of large-area land cover maps — Experiences from the Multi-resolution Land-cover Characteristics (MRLC) project
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Stephen V. Stehman, James D. Wickham, Limin Yang, Jonathan H. Smith
BOREAS regional DEM in raster format and AEAC projection
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David Knapp, Kristine L. Verdin, Forrest G. Hall
Landsat 7 on-orbit geometric calibration and performance
The Landsat 7 Image Assessment System was developed to characterize and calibrate the radiometric and geometric performance of the Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Pius (ETM+) instrument. Algorithms and software assess the geometric performance of the Landsat 7 spacecraft and ETM+ sensor system and perform geometric calibration by estimating sensor and spacecraft geometric parameters. Following
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James C. Storey, Michael J. Choate
Landsat 5/Landsat 7 underfly cross-calibration experiment
There was a one-time opportunity to obtain nearly coincident coverage from both Landsat 5 and Landsat 7 as Landsat 7 drifted to its final orbital position during the initialization and verification phase following launch. During the underfly period, Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) data were collected using the U.S Landsat 7 ground station network and the solid-state recorder, while
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Grant R. Mah, James Vogelmann, Michael J. Choate
Landsat 7 processing on the EROS Data Center's National Land Archive Processing System (NLAPS)
Staff at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) EROS Data Center (EDC) process Landsat 7 data for customer distribution on two distinct systems. The Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) processing is done on the Level -1 Product Generation System (LPGS), and the USGS processing is completed on the National Land Archive Processing System (NLAPS). The NLAPS is capable of processing data from Landsat
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Brenda Jones, LeAnn Dix
A comparison of the IGBP DISCover and University of Maryland 1 km global land cover products
Two global 1 km land cover data sets derived from 1992-1993 Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data are currently available, the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Data and Information System (IGBP-DIS) DISCover and the University of Maryland (UMd) 1 km land cover maps. This paper makes a preliminary comparison of the methodologies and results of the two products. The DISCov
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M.C. Hansen, B. Reed
Use of Argon, Corona, and Landsat imagery to assess 30 years of land resource changes in west-central Senegal
Over the past 35 years, an agricultural area of west-central Senegal has experienced rapid population growth, fast expansion of agricultural lands, a decline in rainfall, and degradation of vegetative and soil resources. Although such changes have not escaped the attention of Senegal's people, its government, and the scientific community the ability to monitor and quantify land resource trends of
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G. Gray Tappan, Amadou Hadj, Eric C. Wood, Ronald W. Lietzow
Basin level statistical properties of topographic index for North America
For land–atmosphere interaction studies several Topmodel based land-surface schemes have been proposed. For the implementation of such models over the continental (and global) scales, statistical properties of the topographic indices are derived using GTOPO30 (30-arc-second; 1 km resolution) DEM data for North America. River basins and drainage network extracted using this dataset are overlaid on
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Praveen Kumar, Kristine L. Verdin, Susan K. Greenlee
Landsat-7 reveals more than just surface features in remote areas of the globe
No abstract available.
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Thomas P. DeFelice, D. J. Meyer, G. Xian, J. Christopherson, R. Cahalan
National land-cover pattern data
Land cover and its spatial patterns are key ingredients in ecological studies that consider large regions and the impacts of human activities. Because land-cover maps show only cover types and their locations, further processing is needed to extract pattern information and to characterize its spatial variability. We are producing a nationally consistent spatial database of six land-cover pattern i
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Kurt H. Riitters, James D. Wickham, James Vogelmann, K. Bruce Jones
The land cover trends project: A strategy for monitoring land cover change at a national scale
Policy-makers and scientists often require comprehensive data on the types and rates of land use and land cover change at a variety of scales. However, there is generally a lack of local, regional, and national land use and land cover data of sufficient reliability and temporal and geographic detail for providing accurate estimates of landscape change. The U.S. Geological Survey's EROS Data Center
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Terry L. Sohl, Thomas Loveland, Kristi Sayler, Alisa L. Gallant, Roger F. Auch, Darrell E. Napton
Geographic patterns and dynamics of Alaskan climate interpolated from a sparse station record
Data from a sparse network of climate stations in Alaska were interpolated to provide 1-km resolution maps of mean monthly temperature and precipitation-variables that are required at high spatial resolution for input into regional models of ecological processes and resource management. The interpolation model is based on thin-plate smoothing splines, which uses the spatial data along with a digit
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Michael D. Fleming, F. Stuart Chapin, W. Cramer, Gary L. Hufford, Mark C. Serreze