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The shuttle radar topography mission: data validation and applications
No abstract available.
Authors
Dean B. Gesch, Jan-Peter Muller, T.J. Farrugia
USGS Fire Science: Fire Danger Monitoring and Forecasting
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has advanced the use of moderate-resolution satellite data in a decision support system for assessing national fire potential. Weekly updated digital images of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), based on data acquired at 1-kilometer (km) resolution (about 0.6 mi), have been used for the past 19 years as a means to assess live vegetation conditions
Authors
Jeff Eidenshink
LANDFIRE: Collaboration for National Fire Fuel Assessment
The implementation of national fire management policies, such as the National Fire Plan and the Healthy Forest Restoration Act, requires geospatial data of vegetation types and structure, wildland fuels, fire risks, and ecosystem fire regime conditions. Presently, no such data sets are available that can meet these requirements. As a result, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service
Authors
Zhi-Liang Zhu
Land Cover Trends Project
The Land Cover Trends Project is designed to document the types, rates, causes, and consequences of land cover change from 1973 to 2000 within each of the 84 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Level III ecoregions that span the conterminous United States. The project's objectives are to:
* Develop a comprehensive methodology using probability sampling and change analysis techniques and La
Authors
William Acevedo
USGS EROS Interdisciplinary Science Collaboration with BRD, GD, GIO, and WRD
No abstract available.
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The USGS Land Cover Institute
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Land Cover Institute (LCI) is located at the Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It provides a focal point for advancing USGS land cover studies and applications. Satellite images and other remotely sensed data play an important role in this research. Land Cover scientists investigate new ways to use satellite im
Authors
Christopher Barnes
Understanding Amphibian Declines Through Geographic Approaches
Growing concern over worldwide amphibian declines warrants serious examination. Amphibians are important to the proper functioning of ecosystems and provide many direct benefits to humans in the form of pest and disease control, pharmaceutical compounds, and even food. Amphibians have permeable skin and rely on both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems during different seasons and stages of their li
Authors
Alisa Gallant
Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET)
The FEWS NET mission is to identify potentially food-insecure conditions early through the provision of timely and analytical hazard and vulnerability information. U.S. Government decision-makers act on this information to authorize mitigation and response activities. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) FEWS NET provides tools and data for monitoring and forecasting the incidence of drought and floo
Authors
James P. Verdin
An agreement coefficient for image comparison
Combination of datasets acquired from different sensor systems is necessary to construct a long time-series dataset for remotely sensed land-surface variables. Assessment of the agreement of the data derived from various sources is an important issue in understanding the data continuity through the time-series. Some traditional measures, including correlation coefficient, coefficient of determinat
Authors
Lei Ji, Kevin Gallo
The global lambda visualization facility: An international ultra-high-definition wide-area visualization collaboratory
The research outlined in this paper marks an initial global cooperative effort between visualization and collaboration researchers to build a persistent virtual visualization facility linked by ultra-high-speed optical networks. The goal is to enable the comprehensive and synergistic research and development of the necessary hardware, software and interaction techniques to realize the next generat
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J. Leigh, L. Renambot, Aaron H. Johnson, B. Jeong, R. Jagodic, N. Schwarz, D. Svistula, R. Singh, J. Aguilera, X. Wang, V. Vishwanath, B. Lopez, D. Sandin, T. Peterka, J. Girado, R. Kooima, J. Ge, L. Long, A. Verlo, T.A. DeFanti, M. Brown, D. Cox, R. Patterson, P. Dorn, P. Wefel, S. Levy, J. Talandis, J. Reitzer, T. Prudhomme, T. Coffin, B. Davis, P. Wielinga, B. Stolk, Koo G. Bum, J. Kim, S. Han, B. Corrie, T. Zimmerman, P. Boulanger, M. Garcia
A 16-year time series of 1 km AVHRR satellite data of the conterminous United States and Alaska
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has developed a 16-year time series of vegetation condition information for the conterminous United States and Alaska using 1 km Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data. The AVHRR data have been processed using consistent methods that account for radiometric variability due to calibration uncertainty, the effects of the atmosphere on surface radiomet
Authors
Jeff Eidenshink