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USGS goals for the coming decade
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) proposes six strategic directions for managing ecosystems along with modernization of observation networks of land, water, and biological resources.
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M.D. Myers, M. A. Ayers, Jill Baron, P.R. Beauchemin, Martin B. Goldhaber, Deborah R. Hutchinson, James W. LaBaugh, Roger G. Sayre, Steven E. Schwarzbach, Eugene S. Schweig, June M. Thormodsgard, Charles van Riper, W. Wilde
Use of 21st century satellite remote sensing technology in natural hazard analysis
No abstract available.
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Yang Hong, Robert Adler, James P. Verdin
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission - New Products in 2005
In February 2000, the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) successfully collected Interferometric C-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar data over 80 percent of the Earth's land surface, for most of the area between 60?N and 56?S latitude. NASA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), formerly known as the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), co-sponsored the mission.
NASA's Je
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CLICK: The USGS Center for LIDAR Information Coordination & Knowledge
While this technology has proven its use as a mapping tool - effective for generating bare earth DEMs at high resolutions (1-3 m) and with high vertical accuracies (15-18 cm) - obstacles remain for its application as a remote sensing tool:
* The high cost of collecting LIDAR
* The steep learning curve on research and application of using the entire point cloud
* The challenges of discovering wh
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Jordan C. Menig, Jason M. Stoker
Use of the gamma distribution to represent monthly rainfall in Africa for drought monitoring applications
Evaluating a range of scenarios that accurately reflect precipitation variability is critical for water resource applications. Inputs to these applications can be provided using location- and interval-specific probability distributions. These distributions make it possible to estimate the likelihood of rainfall being within a specified range. In this paper, we demonstrate the feasibility of fittin
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Gregory J. Husak, Joel C. Michaelsen, Christopher C. Funk
A compilation of spatial digital databases for selected U.S. Geological Survey nonfuel mineral resource assessments for parts of Idaho and Montana
This report compiles selected results from 13 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) mineral resource assessment studies conducted in Idaho and Montana into consistent spatial databases that can be used in a geographic information system. The 183 spatial databases represent areas of mineral potential delineated in these studies and include attributes on mineral deposit type, level of mineral potential, cer
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Mary H. Carlson, Michael L. Zientek, J. Douglas Causey, Helen Z. Kayser, Gregory T. Spanski, Anna B. Wilson, Bradley S. Van Gosen, Charles M. Trautwein
Topobathymetric data for Tampa Bay, Florida
Topobathymetric data (“topobathy”) are a merged rendering of both topography (land elevation) and bathymetry (water depth) to provide a single product useful for inundation mapping and a variety of other applications. These data were developed using one topographic and two bathymetric datasets collected at different dates. Topography was obtained from the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) National E
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Dean J. Tyler, David G. Zawada, A. Nayegandi, John Brock, M. P. Crane, Kimberly K. Yates, Kathryn E. L. Smith
Scan line correction : enabling broader use of Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) data
No abstract available.
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R.M. Kurtz
Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica
Description
Fact sheet introduces the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA) with images from a section of the mosaic over McMurdo Station, descriptions of the four versions of LIMA, where to access and download LIMA, and a brief explanation of the Antarctic Web portal.
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Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR)—its past, present and future
Very simply, interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) involves the use of two or more synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images of the same area to extract landscape topography and its deformation patterns. A SAR system transmits electromagnetic waves at a wavelength that can range from a few millimeters to tens of centimeters and therefore can operate during day and night under all-weather co
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Zhong Lu, Oh-Ig Kwoun, R.P. Rykhus
InSAR imaging of volcanic deformation over cloud-prone areas - Aleutian islands
Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (INSAR) is capable of measuring ground-surface deformation with centimeter-tosubcentimeter precision and spatial resolution of tens-of meters over a relatively large region. With its global coverage and all-weather imaging capability, INSAR is an important technique for measuring ground-surface deformation of volcanoes over cloud-prone and rainy regions suc
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Zhong Lu
The FORE-SCE model: a practical approach for projecting land cover change using scenario-based modeling
A wide variety of ecological applications require spatially explicit, historic, current, and projected land use and land cover data. The U.S. Land Cover Trends project is analyzing contemporary (1973–2000) land-cover change in the conterminous United States. The newly developed FORE-SCE model used Land Cover Trends data and theoretical, statistical, and deterministic modeling techniques to project
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Terry L. Sohl, Kristi Sayler, Mark A. Drummond, Thomas R. Loveland