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Establishing an operational waterhole monitoring system using satellite data and hydrologic modelling: Application in the pastoral regions of East Africa
Timely information on the availability of water and forage is important for the sustainable development of pastoral regions. The lack of such information increases the dependence of pastoral communities on perennial sources, which often leads to competition and conflicts. The provision of timely information is a challenging task, especially due to the scarcity or non-existence of conventional stat
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Gabriel B. Senay, Naga Manohar Velpuri, Henok Alemu, Shahriar Md Pervez, Kwabena O Asante, Gatarwa Karuki, Asefa Taa, Jay Angerer
Simulating the water budget of a Prairie Potholes complex from LiDAR and hydrological models in North Dakota, USA
Hydrological processes of the wetland complex in the Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) are difficult to model, partly due to a lack of wetland morphology data. We used Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) data sets to derive wetland features; we then modelled rainfall, snowfall, snowmelt, runoff, evaporation, the “fill-and-spill” mechanism, shallow groundwater loss, and the effect of wet and dry conditi
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Shengli Huang, Claudia Young, Omar I. Abdul-Aziz, Devendra Dahal, Min Feng, Shuguang Liu
Characterizing LEDAPS surface reflectance products by comparisons with AERONET, field spectrometer, and MODIS data
This study provides a baseline quality check on provisional Landsat Surface Reflectance (SR) products as generated by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center using Landsat Ecosystem Disturbance Adaptive Processing System (LEDAPS) software. Characterization of the Landsat SR products leveraged comparisons between aerosol optical thickness derived from
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Tom Maiersperger, Pat Scaramuzza, Larry Leigh, S. Shrestha, Kevin Gallo, Calli B. Jenkerson, John L. Dwyer
Land use and carbon dynamics in the southeastern United States from 1992 to 2050
Land use and land cover change (LUCC) plays an important role in determining the spatial distribution, magnitude, and temporal change of terrestrial carbon sources and sinks. However, the impacts of LUCC are not well understood and quantified over large areas. The goal of this study was to quantify the spatial and temporal patterns of carbon dynamics in various terrestrial ecosystems in the southe
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Shuqing Zhao, Shuguang Liu, Terry L. Sohl, Claudia Young, Jeremy M. Werner
Foreword to the special issue on intercalibration of satellite instruments
This forty papers in this special issue focus on how intercalibration and comparison between sensors can provide an effective and convenient means of verifying their postlaunch performance and correcting their measurement differences.
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Gyanesh Chander, T.J. Hewison, Nigel Fox, Xiangqian Wu, Xiaoxiong Xiong, William J. Blackwell
Projecting the land cover change and its environmental impacts in the Cedar River Basin in the Midwestern United States
The physical surface of the Earth is in constant change due to climate forcing and human activities. In the Midwestern United States, urban area, farmland, and dedicated energy crop (e.g., switchgrass) cultivation are predicted to expand in the coming decades, which will lead to changes in hydrological processes. This study is designed to (1) project the land use and land cover (LULC) by mid-centu
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Yiping Wu, Shuguang Liu, Terry L. Sohl, Claudia Young
Multitemporal cross-calibration of the Terra MODIS and Landsat 7 ETM+ reflective solar bands
In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the use of remotely sensed data to address global issues. With the open data policy, the data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) sensors have become a critical component of numerous applications. These two sensors have been operational for more than a decade, providing a r
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Amit Angal, Xiaoxiong Xiong, Aisheng Wu, Gyanesh Chander, Taeyoung Choi
Baseline-dependent responses of soil organic carbon dynamics to climate and land disturbances
Terrestrial carbon (C) sequestration through optimizing land use and management is widely considered a realistic option to mitigate the global greenhouse effect. But how the responses of individual ecosystems to changes in land use and management are related to baseline soil organic C (SOC) levels still needs to be evaluated at various scales. In this study, we modeled SOC dynamics within both nat
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Zhengxi Tan, Shuguang Liu
Eighth Landsat satellite becomes operational
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J. R. Irons, Thomas R. Loveland
A program for handling map projections of small-scale geospatial raster data
Scientists routinely accomplish small-scale geospatial modeling using raster datasets of global extent. Such use often requires the projection of global raster datasets onto a map or the reprojection from a given map projection associated with a dataset. The distortion characteristics of these projection transformations can have significant effects on modeling results. Distortions associated with
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Michael P. Finn, Daniel R. Steinwand, Jason R. Trent, Robert A. Buehler, David M. Mattli, Kristina H. Yamamoto