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Comparison of TOMS and AVHRR volcanic ash retrievals from the August 1992 eruption of Mt. Spurr
On August 19, 1992, the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) onboard NOAA-12 and NASA's Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) onboard the Nimbus-7 satellite simultaneously detected and mapped the ash cloud from the eruption of Mt. Spurr, Alaska. The spatial extent and geometry of the cloud derived from the two datasets are in good agreement and both AVHRR split window IR (11-12??m br
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N.A. Krotkov, O. Torres, C. Seftor, A.J. Krueger, A. Kostinski, William I. Rose, G.J.S. Bluth, D. Schneider, S.J. Schaefer
A topological system for delineation and codification of the Earth's river basins
A comprehensive reference system for the Earth's river basins is proposed as a support to fiver basin management, global change research, and the pursuit of sustainable development. A natural system for delineation and codification of basins is presented which is based upon topographic control and the topology of the fiver network. These characteristics make the system well suited for implementati
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K.L. Verdin, J. P. Verdin
The influence of anthropogenic landscape changes on weather in south Florida
Using identical observed meteorology for lateral boundary conditions, the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System was integrated for July-August 1973 for south Florida. Three experiments were performed-one using the observed 1973 landscape, another the 1993 landscape, and the third the 1900 landscape, when the region was close to its natural state. Over the 2-month period, there was a 9% decrease in
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R.A. Pielke, R. L. Walko, L. T. Steyaert, P.L. Vidale, G.E. Liston, W.A. Lyons, T.N. Chase
Designing an accuracy assessment for a USGS regional land cover mapping program
No abstract available.
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Z. Zhu, L. Yang, S.V. Stehman, R.L. Czaplewsld
The effects of DEM generalization methods on derived hydrologic features
No abstract available.
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D.B. Gesch
Toward the use of remote sensing and other data to delineate functional types in terrestrial and aquatic systems
This chapter discusses the role that remotely sensed data play in improving the ability to document the distribution of global land cover types. If the relationships between the cover types and trace gas fluxes can be determined, then the dynamics of these fluxes can be established. The chapter discusses important aquatic systems—such as wetlands—and the land–water interface. Researchers have a wi
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J. E. Estes, Thomas R. Loveland
Early evolution of a stratospheric volcanic eruption cloud as observed with TOMS and AVHRR
This paper is a detailed study of remote sensing data from the total ozone mapping spectrometer (TOMS) and the advanced very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR) satellite detectors, of the 1982 eruption of El Chichón, Mexico. The volcanic cloud/atmosphere interactions in the first four days of this eruption were investigated by combining ultraviolet retrievals to estimate the mass of sulfur dioxide
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D.J. Schneider, William I. Rose, L.R. Coke, G.J.S. Bluth, I.E. Sprod, A.J. Krueger
The EOS land validation core sites: background information and current status
The EOS Land Validation Core Sites1 will provide the user community with timely ground, aircraft, and satellite data for EOS science and validation investigations. The sites, currently 24 distributed worldwide, represent a consensus among the instrument teams and validation investigators and represent a range of global biome types (see Figure 1 and Table 1; Privette et al., 1999; Justice et al., 1
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J. Morisette, J.L. Privette, C. Justice, D. Olson, John L. Dwyer, P. Davis, D. Starr, D. Wickland
Surface phenology and satellite sensor-derived onset of greenness: An initial comparison
The objective of this work was to document the utility of phenological data derived from satellite sensors by comparing them with modelled phenology. Surface phenological model outputs (first leaf and first bloom dates) were correlated positively with satellite sensor-derived start of season (SOS) dates for 1991-1995 across the eastern United States. The correlation was highest for forest (r 0.62
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Mark D. Schwartz, Bradley C. Reed
Global land cover mapping and validation: Special issue, Foreword
No abstract available.
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Thomas R. Loveland, J. E. Estes, Joseph Scepan
The Global Land-Cover Characteristics Database: The users' perspective
A unique global land-cover characteristics database developed by the U.S. Geological Survey has been available to users since mid-1997. Access to the data is through the internet under the EROS (Earth Resources Observation Systems) Data Center's home page (http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/landdaac/glcc/glcc.html). Since the release of the database, the data have been incorporated into various environment
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Jesslyn F. Brown, Thomas R. Loveland, Donald O. Ohlen, Zhi-Liang Zhu
International river basins of the world
It is becoming acknowledged that water is likely to be the most pressing environmental concern of the next century. Difficulties in river basin management are only exacerbated when the resource crosses international boundaries. One critical aid in the assessment of international waters has been the Register of International Rivers a compendium which listed 214 international waterways that cover 47
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Aaron T. Wolf, Jeffrey A. Natharius, Jeffrey J. Danielson, Brian S. Ward, Jan K. Pender