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Soil carbon distribution in Alaska in relation to soil-forming factors
The direction and magnitude of soil organic carbon (SOC) changes in response to climate change remain unclear and depend on the spatial distribution of SOC across landscapes. Uncertainties regarding the fate of SOC are greater in high-latitude systems where data are sparse and the soils are affected by sub-zero temperatures. To address these issues in Alaska, a first-order assessment of data gaps
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K.D. Johnson, J. Harden, A. D. McGuire, N.B. Bliss, James G. Bockheim, M.R. Clark, T. Nettleton-Hollingsworth, M.T. Jorgenson, E.S. Kane, M. Mack, J. O'Donnell, C.-L. Ping, E.A.G. Schuur, M.R. Turetsky, D.W. Valentine
Integration of Palmer Drought Severity Index and remote sensing data to simulate wetland water surface from 1910 to 2009 in Cottonwood Lake area, North Dakota
Spatiotemporal variations of wetland water in the Prairie Pothole Region are controlled by many factors; two of them are temperature and precipitation that form the basis of the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI). Taking the 196 km2 Cottonwood Lake area in North Dakota as our pilot study site, we integrated PDSI, Landsat images, and aerial photography records to simulate monthly water surface. F
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Shengli Huang, Devendra Dahal, Claudia Young, Gyanesh Chander, Shuguang Liu
Response of spectral vegetation indices to soil moisture in grasslands and shrublands
The relationships between satellite-derived vegetation indices (VIs) and soil moisture are complicated because of the time lag of the vegetation response to soil moisture. In this study, we used a distributed lag regression model to evaluate the lag responses of VIs to soil moisture for grasslands and shrublands at Soil Climate Analysis Network sites in the central and western United States. We ex
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Li Zhang, Lei Ji, Bruce K. Wylie
Continuous fields of land cover for the conterminous United States using Landsat data: First results from the Web-Enabled Landsat Data (WELD) project
Vegetation Continuous Field (VCF) layers of 30 m percent tree cover, bare ground, other vegetation and probability of water were derived for the conterminous United States (CONUS) using Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) data sets from the Web-Enabled Landsat Data (WELD) project. Turnkey approaches to land cover characterization were enabled due to the systematic WELD Landsat processin
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M.C. Hansen, Alexey Egorov, David P. Roy, P. Potapov, J. Ju, S. Turubanova, I. Kommareddy, Thomas R. Loveland
USGS remote sensing coordination for the 2010 Haiti earthquake
In response to the devastating 12 January 2010, earthquake in Haiti, the US Geological Survey (USGS) provided essential coordinating services for remote sensing activities. Communication was rapidly established between the widely distributed response teams and data providers to define imaging requirements and sensor tasking opportunities. Data acquired from a variety of sources were received and a
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Kenneth A. Duda, Brenda Jones
Modeling the height of young forests regenerating from recent disturbances in Mississippi using Landsat and ICESat data
Many forestry and earth science applications require spatially detailed forest height data sets. Among the various remote sensing technologies, lidar offers the most potential for obtaining reliable height measurement. However, existing and planned spaceborne lidar systems do not have the capability to produce spatially contiguous, fine resolution forest height maps over large areas. This paper de
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Ainong Li, Chengquan Huang, Guoqing Sun, Hua Shi, Chris Toney, Zhiliang Zhu, Matthew G. Rollins, Samuel N. Goward, Jeffery G. Masek
Ecoregional differences in late-20th-century land-use and land-cover change in the U.S. northern great plains
Land-cover and land-use change usually results from a combination of anthropogenic drivers and biophysical conditions found across multiple scales, ranging from parcel to regional levels. A group of four Level 111 ecoregions located in the U.S. northern Great Plains is used to demonstrate the similarities and differences in land change during nearly a 30-year period (1973-2000) using results from
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Roger F. Auch, K. L. Sayler, D.E. Napton, Janis L. Taylor, M.S. Brooks
Classifying the hydrologic function of prairie potholes with remote sensing and GIS
A sequence of Landsat TM/ETM+ scenes capturing the substantial surface water variations exhibited by prairie pothole wetlands over a drought to deluge period were analyzed in an attempt to determine the general hydrologic function of individual wetlands (recharge, flow-through, and discharge). Multipixel objects (water bodies) were clustered according to their temporal changes in water extents. We
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Jennifer R. Rover, C.K. Wright, Ned H. Euliss, David M. Mushet, Bruce K. Wylie
Comparison and analysis of empirical equations for soil heat flux for different cropping systems and irrigation methods
We evaluated the performance of four models for estimating soil heat flux density (G) in maize (Zea mays L.) and soybean (Glycine max L.) fields under different irrigation methods (center-pivot irrigated fields at Mead, Nebraska, and subsurface drip irrigated field at Clay Center, Nebraska) and rainfed conditions at Mead. The model estimates were compared against measurements made during growing s
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A. Irmak, Ramesh K. Singh, Elizabeth Walter-Shea, S.B. Verma, A.E. Suyker
Survival of white-tailed deer neonates in Minnesota and South Dakota
Understanding the influence of intrinsic (e.g., age, birth mass, and sex) and habitat factors on survival of neonate white-tailed deer improves understanding of population ecology. During 2002–2004, we captured and radiocollared 78 neonates in eastern South Dakota and southwestern Minnesota, of which 16 died before 1 September. Predation accounted for 80% of mortality; the remaining 20% was attrib
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T.W. Grovenburg, C. C. Swanson, C.N. Jacques, R. W. Klaver, T.J. Brinkman, B.M. Burris, C.S. Deperno, J.A. Jenks
Modeling PSInSAR time series without phase unwrapping
In this paper, we propose a least-squares-based method for multitemporal synthetic aperture radar interferometry that allows one to estimate deformations without the need of phase unwrapping. The method utilizes a series of multimaster wrapped differential interferograms with short baselines and focuses on arcs at which there are no phase ambiguities. An outlier detector is used to identify and re
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L. Zhang, X. Ding, Z. Lu
Study on a pattern classification method of soil quality based on simplified learning sample dataset
Based on the massive soil information in current soil quality grade evaluation, this paper constructed an intelligent classification approach of soil quality grade depending on classical sampling techniques and disordered multiclassification Logistic regression model. As a case study to determine the learning sample capacity under certain confidence level and estimation accuracy, and use c-means a
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Jiahua Zhang, S. Liu, Y. Hu, Y. Tian