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Mapping recent decadal climate variations in precipitation and temperature across eastern Africa and the Sahel
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Authors
Christopher C. Funk, Joel Michaelsen, Michael Marshall
Land-cover change detection
Land cover is the biophysical material on the surface of the earth. Land-cover types include grass, shrubs, trees, barren, water, and man-made features. Land cover changes continuously. The rate of change can be either dramatic and abrupt, such as the changes caused by logging, hurricanes and fire, or subtle and gradual, such as regeneration of forests and damage caused by insects (Verbesselt et
Authors
Xuexia Chen, Chandra Giri, James Vogelmann
Assessment of urbanization patterns and trends in the Gulf of Mexico region of the southeast United States with Landsat and nighttime lights imagery
No abstract available.
Authors
George Z. Xian, Collin G. Homer
Crop classification modelling using remote sensing and environmental data in the Greater Platte River Basin, USA
With an ever expanding population, potential climate variability and an increasing demand for agriculture-based alternative fuels, accurate agricultural land-cover classification for specific crops and their spatial distributions are becoming critical to researchers, policymakers, land managers and farmers. It is important to ensure the sustainability of these and other land uses and to quantify t
Authors
Daniel M. Howard, Bruce K. Wylie, Larry L. Tieszen
LiDAR - An emerging tool for geological applications
Over the past five to ten years the use and applicability of light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology has increased dramatically. As a result, more and more LiDAR data now are being collected across the country for a wide range of applications, and LiDAR currently is the technology of choice for high resolution terrain model creation, 3-D city and infrastructure modeling, forestry, and a wid
Authors
Jason M. Stoker
Landsat Update: Volume 6 Issue 4
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Landsat Update: Volume 6 Issue 3
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Lidar base specification
In late 2009, a $14.3 million allocation from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) for new light detection and ranging (lidar) elevation data acquisition prompted the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Geospatial Program (NGP) to develop a common minimum specification for all lidar data acquired for The National Map. Released as a working draft in 2010 and formally published in 20
Authors
Hans Karl Heidemann
Annual accumulation over the Greenland ice sheet interpolated from historical and newly compiled observation data
The estimation of ice/snow accumulation is of great significance in quantifying the mass balance of ice sheets and variation in water resources. Improving the accuracy and reducing uncertainty has been a challenge for the estimation of annual accumulation over the Greenland ice sheet. In this study, we kriged and analyzed the spatial pattern of accumulation based on an observation data series incl
Authors
Dayong Shen, Yuling Liu, Shengli Huang
Current and potential sustainable corn stover feedstock for biofuel production in the United States
Increased demand for corn (Zea mays L.) stover as a feedstock for cellulosic ethanol raises concerns about agricultural sustainability. Excessive corn stover harvesting could have long-term impacts on soil quality. We estimated current and future stover production and evaluated the potential harvestable stover amount (HSA) that could be used for biofuel feedstock in the United States by defining t
Authors
Zhengxi Tan, Shu-Guang Liu, Larry L. Tieszen, Norman Bliss
Identifying potential areas for biofuel production and evaluating the environmental effects: a case study of the James River Basin in the Midwestern United States
Biofuels are now an important resource in the United States because of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. Both increased corn growth for ethanol production and perennial dedicated energy crop growth for cellulosic feedstocks are potential sources to meet the rising demand for biofuels. However, these measures may cause adverse environmental consequences that are not yet fully unders
Authors
Yiping Wu, Shu-Guang Liu, Zhengpeng Li