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Monitoring and modelling landscape dynamics
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Thomas Houet, Peter H. Verburg, Thomas Loveland
An automated approach for reconstructing recent forest disturbance history using dense Landsat time series stacks
A highly automated algorithm called vegetation change tracker (VCT) has been developed for reconstructing recent forest disturbance history using Landsat time series stacks (LTSS). This algorithm is based on the spectral–temporal properties of land cover and forest change processes, and requires little or no fine tuning for most forests with closed or near close canopy cover. It was found very eff
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Chengquan Huang, Samuel N. Goward, Jeffery G. Masek, Nancy Thomas, Zhiliang Zhu, James Vogelmann
Web-enabled Landsat Data (WELD): Landsat ETM+ composited mosaics of the conterminous United States
Since January 2008, the U.S. Department of Interior / U.S. Geological Survey have been providing free terrain-corrected (Level 1T) Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) data via the Internet, currently for acquisitions with less than 40% cloud cover. With this rich dataset, temporally composited, mosaics of the conterminous United States (CONUS) were generated on a monthly, seasonal, and an
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David P. Roy, Junchang Ju, Kristi L. Kline, P. L. Scaramuzza, Valeriy Kovalskyy, Matt Hansen, Thomas Loveland, Eric Vermote, Chunsun Zhang
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
Under an agreement with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Department of Defense's National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is distributing elevation data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). The SRTM is a joint project of NASA and NGA to map the Earth's land surface in three dimensions at an unprecedented level of
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Seasonal movements and home ranges of white-tailed deer in north-central South Dakota
Knowledge of movement patterns of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus (Zimmermann, 1780)) inhabiting landscapes intensively modified by agricultural systems is important to the present and future understanding of deer ecology. Little information exists regarding daily and seasonal movements of white-tailed deer in north-central South Dakota. Therefore, our goal was to determine movement patt
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T.W. Grovenburg, J.A. Jenks, Robert W. Klaver, C. C. Swanson, C.N. Jacques, Dennis Todey
Ignoring detailed fast-changing dynamics of land use overestimates regional terrestrial carbon sequestration
Land use change is critical in determining the distribution, magnitude and mechanisms of terrestrial carbon budgets at the local to global scales. To date, almost all regional to global carbon cycle studies are driven by a static land use map or land use change statistics with decadal time intervals. The biases in quantifying carbon exchange between the terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere ca
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S.Q. Zhao, S. Liu, Zhengpeng Li
Addressing foundational elements of regional land-use change forecasting
Regional land-use models must address several foundational elements, including understanding geographic setting, establishing regional land-use histories, modeling process and representing drivers of change, representing local land-use patterns, managing issues of scale and complexity, and development of scenarios. Key difficulties include managing an array of biophysical and socioeconomic process
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Terry L. Sohl, Thomas Loveland, Benjamin M. Sleeter, Kristi Sayler, Christopher Barnes
Use of multi-temporal Landsat images to monitor forest disturbance (1987-2007) in the Black Hills of South Dakota
Monitoring forest disturbance is important for studying carbon pools and fluxes. The goal of this study is to observe forest disturbance of different burn severity levels using multi-temporal Landsat images. The Jasper Fire occurred in the Black Hills National Forest, South Dakota, during August and September of 2000. The fire disturbance to ecosystem characteristics has a widespread and long-term
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Xuexia Chen, Donald O. Ohlen
Vegetation change detection and quantification: linking Landsat imagery and LIDAR data
Measurements of the horizontal and vertical structure of vegetation are helpful for detecting and monitoring change or disturbance on the landscape. Lidar has a unique ability to capture the three-dimensional structure of vegetation canopies. In this preliminary study, we present the results of a series of exploratory data analyses that tested our assumptions about the links between the structural
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Birgit E. Peterson, Kurtis J. Nelson
Effects of vegetation restoration and slope positions on soil aggregation and soil carbon accumulation on heavily eroded tropical land of Southern China
Background aim and scopeSoil organic carbon (SOC) accumulation is strongly affected by soil erosion and deposition that differ at slope positions of a watershed. However, studies on the effects of topography on soil aggregation and SOC dynamics, especially after the implementation of vegetation restoration, are rare. Poorly understood mechanisms and a lack of quantification for the suite of ecolog
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Xinyi Tang, Shuguang Liu, Juxiu Liu, Guoyi Zhou
Development of time series stacks of Landsat images for reconstructing forest disturbance history
Forest dynamics is highly relevant to a broad range of earth science studies, many of which have geographic coverage ranging from regional to global scales. While the temporally dense Landsat acquisitions available in many regions provide a unique opportunity for understanding forest disturbance history dating back to 1972, large quantities of Landsat images will need to be analysed for studies at
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C. Huang, Samuel N. Goward, Jeffery G. Masek, Feng Gao, E. F. Vermote, Karen Schleeweis, Robert E. Kennedy, Zhiliang Zhu, Jeffery C. Eidenshink, J.R.G. Townshend
Assessment of the short-term radiometric stability between Terra MODIS and Landsat 7 ETM+ sensors
Short-term radiometric stability was evaluated using continuous ETM+ scenes within a single orbit (contact period) and the corresponding MODIS scenes for the four matching solar reflective visible and near-infrared (VNIR) band pairs between the two sensors. The near-simultaneous earth observations were limited by the smaller swath size of ETM+ (183 km) compared to MODIS (2330 km). Two sets of cont
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Taeyoung Choi, Xiaoxiong Xiong, Gyanesh Chander, A. Angal