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Further discussions on the relationship between cumulated intercepted solar radiation and crop growth
A strong correlation exists between intercepted solar radiation and crop growth. We cautioned that many derivations of the functional relationship between solar energy and biomass use cumulated data, and therefore have logical and arithmetic weaknesses. We examined the growth response of plants to solar energy by using rates of change, of both interception and growth. Our analysis revealed that me
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T.H. Demetriades-Shah, M. Fuchs, E.T. Kanemasu, I.D. Flitcroft
Terrestrial remote sensing science and algorithms planned for EOS/MODIS
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) will be the primary daily global monitoring sensor on the NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) satellites, scheduled for launch on the EOS-AM platform in June 1998 and the EOS-PM platform in December 2000. MODIS is a 36 channel radiometer covering 0·415-14·235 μm wavelengths, with spatial resolution from 250 m to 1 km at nadir. MODIS will be t
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S. W. Running, C.O. Justice, V.V. Salomonson, D. Hall, J. Barker, Y. J. Kaufmann, Alan H. Strahler, A.R. Huete, Jan-Peter Muller, V. Vanderbilt, Z. Wan, P. Teillet, David M. Geological Survey (U.S.) Ohlen Carneggie
Assessment of shoreline vegetation in relation to use by molting black brant Branta bernicla nigricans on the Alaska Coastal Plain
To evaluate the importance of large thaw lakes on the Alaska Coastal Plain for molting Pacific black brant Branta bernicla nigricans, distribution and life form of shoreline vegetation were assessed using several scales: satellite imagery, point-intercept transects, cover quadrats, and a parameter for water regime. Brant population and distribution estimates from aerial surveys were used to classi
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Milton W. Weller, K. C. Jensen, Eric J. Taylor, Mark W. Miller, Karen S. Bollinger, Dirk V. Derksen, Daniel Esler, Carl J. Markon
Identification of tundra land cover near Teschekpuk Lake, Alaska using SPOT satellite data
Tundra vegetation in the Teshekpuk Lake area of the Alaskan Arctic Coastal Plain was mapped to assess distribution and abundance of waterfowl habitats. Three SPOT satellite scenes were acquired and registered to a 20 m Universal Transverse Mercator grid. Two clustering techniques were used to develop statistical parameters by which the SPOT data were spectrally classified. A maximum likelihood alg
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Carl J. Markon, Dirk V. Derksen
Measuring phenological variability from satellite imagery
Vegetation phenological phenomena are closely related to seasonal dynamics of the lower atmosphere and are therefore important elements in global models and vegetation monitoring. Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) data derived from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) satellite sensor offer a means of efficiently and obj
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Bradley C. Reed, Jesslyn F. Brown, D. Vanderzee, Thomas R. Loveland, James W. Merchant, Donald O. Ohlen
Mapping raster imagery to the interrupted Goode Homolosine projection
Because of the increasing emphasis on global monitoring, processing remotely-sensed raster image data onto global map projections has become an important issue. One class of map projections, interrupted equal-area projections, is especially useful for this purpose. The use of the Interrupted Goode Homolosine map projection for the Global Land Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) 1 km p
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D.R. Steinwand
Designing global land cover databases to maximize utility—the US prototype
No abstract available.
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B. C. Reed, Thomas R. Loveland, L. T. Steyaert, Jesslyn F. Brown, J.W. Merchant, D.O. Ohlen
Geographic modeling of food production from rainfed agriculture—Senegal case study
No abstract available.
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D. G. Moore, G.G. Tappan, Stephen M. Howard, R.W. Lietzow, C.A. Nadeau, W. Renison, J. Olsson
Small-scale digital maps for interpreting natural resources
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N.B. Bliss, W.U. Reybold
Identification of requirements and sources for global digital topographic data
Many of the physical processes being studied by global change researchers are affects by land surface topography and consequently topographic data are an important requirement for these investigations. Remotely sensed data, especially those that will be collected by the instruments of the Earth Observing System, require significant correction to remove topographic effects. Although some requirem
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Dean B. Gesch
Evaluating landsat thematic mapper derived vegetation indices for estimating above-ground biomass on semiarid rangelands
Ground data from the Central Plains Experimental Range in northeast Colorado and Landsat satellite images of that area acquired in August 1989, June 1990, and September 1990 were used to evaluate the level of association that can be expected from a univariate model relating spectrally derived vegetation indices (difference, ratio, and normalized difference vegetation indices) and dried green veget
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G.L. Anderson, J. D. Hanson, R. H. Haas
The use of NOAA AVHRR data for assessment of the urban heat sland effect
A vegetation index and a radiative surface temperature were derived from satellite data acquired at approximately 1330 LST for each of 37 cities and for their respective nearby rural regions from 28 June through 8 August 1991. Urbanrural differences for the vegetation index and the surface temperatures were computed and then compared to observed urbanrural differences in minimum air temperatures
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K. P. Gallo, A. L. McNab, Thomas R. Karl, Jesslyn F. Brown, J. J. Hood, J.D. Tarpley