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Multitemporal cross-calibration of the Terra MODIS and Landsat 7 ETM+ reflective solar bands
In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the use of remotely sensed data to address global issues. With the open data policy, the data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) sensors have become a critical component of numerous applications. These two sensors have been operational for more than a decade, providing a r
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Amit Angal, Xiaoxiong Xiong, Aisheng Wu, Gyanesh Chander, Taeyoung Choi
Baseline-dependent responses of soil organic carbon dynamics to climate and land disturbances
Terrestrial carbon (C) sequestration through optimizing land use and management is widely considered a realistic option to mitigate the global greenhouse effect. But how the responses of individual ecosystems to changes in land use and management are related to baseline soil organic C (SOC) levels still needs to be evaluated at various scales. In this study, we modeled SOC dynamics within both nat
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Zhengxi Tan, Shuguang Liu
Eighth Landsat satellite becomes operational
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J. R. Irons, Thomas R. Loveland
A program for handling map projections of small-scale geospatial raster data
Scientists routinely accomplish small-scale geospatial modeling using raster datasets of global extent. Such use often requires the projection of global raster datasets onto a map or the reprojection from a given map projection associated with a dataset. The distortion characteristics of these projection transformations can have significant effects on modeling results. Distortions associated with
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Michael P. Finn, Daniel R. Steinwand, Jason R. Trent, Robert A. Buehler, David M. Mattli, Kristina H. Yamamoto
Landsat 4 Thematic Mapper calibration update
The Landsat 4 Thematic Mapper (TM) collected imagery of the Earth's surface from 1982 to 1993. Although largely overshadowed by Landsat 5 which was launched in 1984, Landsat 4 TM imagery extends the TM-based record of the Earth back to 1982 and also substantially supplements the image archive collected by Landsat 5. To provide a consistent calibration record for the TM instruments, Landsat 4 TM wa
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Dennis L. Helder, Rimy Malla, Cory J. Mettler, Brian L. Markham, Esad Micijevic
CO2 uptake and ecophysiological parameters of the grain crops of midcontinent North America: estimates from flux tower measurements
We analyzed net CO2 exchange data from 13 flux tower sites with 27 site-years of measurements over maize and wheat fields across midcontinent North America. A numerically robust “light-soil temperature-VPD”-based method was used to partition the data into photosynthetic assimilation and ecosystem respiration components. Year-round ecosystem-scale ecophysiological parameters of apparent quantum yie
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Tagir Gilmanov, Bruce Wylie, Larry Tieszen, Tilden P. Meyers, Vern S. Baron, Carl J. Bernacchi, David P. Billesbach, George G. Burba, Marc L. Fischer, Aaron J. Glenn, Niall P. Hanan, Jerry L. Hatfield, Mark W. Heuer, Steven E. Hollinger, Daniel M. Howard, Roser Matamala, John H. Prueger, Mario Tenuta, David G. Young
A vectorial capacity product to monitor changing malaria transmission potential in epidemic regions of Africa
Rainfall and temperature are two of the major factors triggering malaria epidemics in warm semi-arid (desert-fringe) and high altitude (highland-fringe) epidemic risk areas. The ability of the mosquitoes to transmit Plasmodium spp. is dependent upon a series of biological features generally referred to as vectorial capacity. In this study, the vectorial capacity model (VCAP) was expanded to includ
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Pietro Ceccato, Christelle Vancutsem, Robert Klaver, James Rowland, Stephen J. Connor
Projected surface radiative forcing due to 2000--2050 land-cover land-use albedo change over the eastern United States
Satellite-derived contemporary land-cover land-use (LCLU) and albedo data and modeled future LCLU are used to study the impact of LCLU change from 2000 to 2050 on surface albedo and radiative forcing for 19 ecoregions in the eastern United States. The modeled 2000–2050 LCLU changes indicate a future decrease in both agriculture and forested land and an increase in developed land that induces ecore
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Christopher A. Barnes, David P. Roy, Thomas R. Loveland
Novel approach for computing photosynthetically active radiation for productivity modeling using remotely sensed images in the Great Plains, United States
Gross primary production (GPP) is a key indicator of ecosystem performance, and helps in many decision-making processes related to environment. We used the Eddy covariancelight use efficiency (EC-LUE) model for estimating GPP in the Great Plains, United States in order to evaluate the performance of this model. We developed a novel algorithm for computing the photosynthetically active radiation (P
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Ramesh K. Singh, Shu-Guang Liu, Larry L. Tieszen, Andrew E. Suyker, Shashi B. Verma
Estimating seasonal evapotranspiration from temporal satellite images
Estimating seasonal evapotranspiration (ET) has many applications in water resources planning and management, including hydrological and ecological modeling. Availability of satellite remote sensing images is limited due to repeat cycle of satellite or cloud cover. This study was conducted to determine the suitability of different methods namely cubic spline, fixed, and linear for estimating seaso
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Ramesh K. Singh, Shu-Guang Liu, Larry L. Tieszen, Andrew E. Suyker, Shashi B. Verma
Establishing water body areal extent trends in interior Alaska from multi-temporal Landsat data
An accurate approach is needed for monitoring, quantifying and understanding surface water variability due to climate change. Separating inter- and intra-annual variances from longer-term shifts in surface water extents due to contemporary climate warming requires repeat measurements spanning a several-decade period. Here, we show that trends developed from multi-date measurements of the extents o
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Jennifer R. Rover, Lei Ji, Bruce K. Wylie, Larry L. Tieszen