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Changing land management practices and vegetation on the Central Plateau of Burkina Faso (1968-2002)
In the early 1980s, the situation on the northern part of the Central Plateau of Burkina Faso was characterized by expanding cultivation on lands marginal to agriculture, declining rainfall, low and declining cereal yields, disappearing and impoverishing vegetation, falling ground-water levels and strong outmigration. This crisis situation provoked two reactions. Farmers, as well as technicians wo
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C. Reij, G. Tappan, A. Belemvire
InSAR studies of Alaska volcanoes
Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) is a remote sensing technique capable of measuring ground surface deformation with sub-centimeter precision and spatial resolution in tens-ofmeters over a large region. This paper describes basics of InSAR and highlights our studies of Alaskan volcanoes with InSAR images acquired from European ERS-l and ERS-2, Canadian Radarsat-l, and Japanese JERS
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Zhong Lu, Chuck Wicks, Daniel Dzurisin, John A. Power
Perspectives on the use of land-cover data for ecological investigations
No abstract available.
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Thomas R. Loveland, Alisa L. Gallant, James E. Vogelmann
Drought monitoring techniques for famine early warning systems in Africa
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James D. Rowland, J. P. Verdin, A. Adoum, G.B. Senay
Global land cover mapping and characterization: present situation and future research priorities
The availability and accessibility of global land cover data sets plays an important role in many global change studies. The importance of such science‐based information is also reflected in a number of international, regional, and national projects and programs. Recent developments in earth observing satellite technology, information technology, computer hardware and software, and infrastructure
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Chandra Giri
ASTER and USGS EROS disaster response: emergency imaging after Hurricane Katrina
The value of remotely sensed imagery during times of crisis is well established, and the increasing spatial and spectral resolution in newer systems provides ever greater utility and ability to discriminate features of interest (International Charter, Space and Major Disasters, 2005). The existing suite of sensors provides an abundance of data, and enables warning alerts to be broadcast for many s
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Kenneth A. Duda, Michael Abrams
Recent U.S. Geological Survey applications of Lidar
As lidar (light detection and ranging) technology matures, more applications are being explored by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists throughout the Nation, both in collaboration with other Federal agencies and alone in support of USGS natural-hazards research (Crane et al., 2004). As the technology continues to improve and evolve, USGS scientists are finding new and unique methods to use an
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Vivian R. Queija, Jason M. Stoker, John J. Kosovich
Rural land-use trends in the conterminous United States, 1950-2000
In order to understand the magnitude, direction, and geographic distribution of land-use changes, we evaluated land-use trends in U.S. counties during the latter half of the 20th century. Our paper synthesizes the dominant spatial and temporal trends in population, agriculture, and urbanized land uses, using a variety of data sources and an ecoregion classification as a frame of reference. A combi
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Daniel G. Brown, Kenneth M. Johnson, Thomas R. Loveland, David M. Theobald
Carbon sequestration potential estimates with changes in land use and tillage practice in Ohio, USA
Soil C sequestration through changes in land use and management is one of the important strategies to mitigate the global greenhouse effect. This study was conducted to estimate C sequestration potential of the top 20 cm depth of soil for two scenarios in Ohio, USA: (1) with reforestation of both current cropland and grassland where SOC pools are less than the baseline SOC pool under current fores
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Z. Tan, R. Lal
The hurricane-flood-landslide continuum
In August 2004, representatives from NOAA, NASA, the US Geological Survey (USGS), as well as other government agencies and academic institutions convened in San Juan, Puerto Rico, at a workshop to discuss a proposed research project called the Hurricane-Flood-Landslide Continuum (HFLC). The purpose of the HFLC is to develop and integrate the multidisciplinary tools needed to issue regional guidanc
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A. J. Negri, N. Burkardt, J. H. Golden, J. B. Halverson, G. J. Huffman, M. C. Larsen, J. A. McGinley, R. G. Updike, J. P. Verdin, G. F. Wieczorek
Trend analysis of time-series phenology derived from satellite data
Remote sensing information has been used in studies of the seasonal dynamics (phenology) of the land surface for the past 15 years. While our understanding of remote sensing phenology is still in development, it is regarded as a key to understanding land surface processes over large areas. Repeat observations from satellite-borne multispectral sensors provide a mechanism to move from plant-specifi
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B. C. Reed, Jesslyn F. Brown
Automated mapping of hammond's landforms
We automated a method for mapping Hammond's landforms over large landscapes using digital elevation data. We compared our results against Hammond's published landform maps, derived using manual interpretation procedures. We found general agreement in landform patterns mapped by the manual and the automated approaches, and very close agreement in characterization of local topographic relief. The tw
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Alisa L. Gallant, D.D. Brown, R.M. Hoffer