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Detecting post-fire burn severity and vegetation recovery using multitemporal remote sensing spectral indices and field-collected composite burn index data in a ponderosa pine forest

It is challenging to detect burn severity and vegetation recovery because of the relatively long time period required to capture the ecosystem characteristics. Multitemporal remote sensing data can providemultitemporal observations before, during and after a wildfire, and can improve the change detection accuracy. The goal of this study is to examine the correlations between multitemporal spectral
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Xuexia Chen, James E. Vogelmann, Matt Rollins, Donald Ohlen, Carl H. Key, Limin Yang, Chengquan Huang, Hua Shi

Soil carbon sequestration potential for "grain for green" project in Loess Plateau, China

Conversion of cropland into perennial vegetation land can increase soil organic carbon (SOC) accumulation, which might be an important mitigation measure to sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The “Grain for Green” project, one of the most ambitious ecological programmes launched in modern China, aims at transforming the low-yield slope cropland into grassland and woodland. The Loess Pla
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R. Chang, B. Fu, Gaisheng Liu, S. Liu

Ground deformation monitoring using small baseline DInSAR technique: A case study in Taiyuan City from 2003 to 2009

DInSAR technique based on time series of SAR images has been very popular to monitor ground stow deformation in recent years such as permanent scatterers (PS) method small baseline subsets (SBAS) method and coherent targets (CT) method. By taking advantage of PS method and CT method in this paper small baseline DTnSAR technique is used to investigate the ground deformation of Taiyuan City Shanxi P
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H.-A. Wu, Y.-H. Zhang, X.-Y. Chen, T. Lu, J. Du, Z.-H. Sun, G.-T. Sun

Ground settlement monitoring based on temporarily coherent points between two SAR acquisitions

An InSAR analysis approach for identifying and extracting the temporarily coherent points (TCP) that exist between two SAR acquisitions and for determining motions of the TCP is presented for applications such as ground settlement monitoring. TCP are identified based on the spatial characteristics of the range and azimuth offsets of coherent radar scatterers. A method for coregistering TCP based o
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L. Zhang, X. Ding, Z. Lu

Self calibration of small and medium format digital cameras

The knowledge of a camera’s interior orientation parameters are a prerequisite for the camera to be used in any precision photogrammetric project. Historically, the interior orientation parameters have been determined by analyzing the measured ground 3D coordinates of photo-identifiable targets, and their 2D (image) coordinates from multiple images of these targets. Camera self calibration, on the
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Donald Moe, Aparajithan Sampath, Jon Christopherson, Mike Benson

Developing a spatially distributed terrestrial biogeochemical cycle modeling system to support the management of Fort Benning and its surrounding areas

The overarching goal of this project is to develop an advanced, spatially distributed biogeochemical cycle modeling system to simulate the dynamics of ecosystem C and N cycles under historical, current, and future land use and disturbances scenarios. The modeling system and simulated results were used to facilitate the evaluation of the environmental consequences of various training and management
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Shuguang Liu, Larry L. Tieszen, Shuqing Zhao, Zhengpeng Li, Jinxun Liu

A Multi-Index Integrated Change detection method for updating the National Land Cover Database

Land cover change is typically captured by comparing two or more dates of imagery and associating spectral change with true thematic change. A new change detection method, Multi-Index Integrated Change (MIIC), has been developed to capture a full range of land cover disturbance patterns for updating the National Land Cover Database (NLCD). Specific indices typically specialize in identifying only
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Suming Jin, Limin Yang, George Z. Xian, Patrick Danielson, Collin G. Homer

Surface deformation of Augustine Volcano, 1992-2005, from multiple-interferogram processing using a refined Small Baseline Subset (SBAS) Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) approach: Chapter 18 in The 2006 eruption of Augustine Volcano, Al

Augustine Volcano is an active stratovolcano located in southwestern Cook Inlet, about 280 kilometers southwest of Anchorage, Alaska. The volcano produced six significant explosive eruptions between 1812 and 1986. Augustine eruptions typically have an explosive onset followed by dome building. The most recent eruption began on January 11, 2006. We applied the small baseline subset (SBAS) interfero
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Chang-Wook Lee, Zhong Lu, Hyung-Sup Jung, Joong-Sun Won, Daniel Dzurisin

The ASTER data system: An overview of the data products in Japan and in the United States

The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) data system is a cooperative system, which is operated jointly by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) through its Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center (ERSDAC), and by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) primarily through its Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and Land Processes
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Bryan Bailey, Kenneth A. Duda, Yoshaki Kannari, Akira Miura, Bhaskar Ramachandran

ASTER and MODIS land data management at the Land Processes, and National Snow and Ice Data Centers

Chapters 4 and 5 provide a variety of examples of how ASTER and MODIS land science applications are predicated on the availability of consistent and quality data. This chapter portrays a narrative of how those data come to exist at two different data centers, which manage them.
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John Daucsavage, Natalia Kaminsky, Bhaskar Ramachandran, Calli B. Jenkerson, Karla K. Sprenger, Ron Faust, Tamara Rockvam

A model‐data intercomparison of CO2 exchange across North America: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis

Our current understanding of terrestrial carbon processes is represented in various models used to integrate and scale measurements of CO2 exchange from remote sensing and other spatiotemporal data. Yet assessments are rarely conducted to determine how well models simulate carbon processes across vegetation types and environmental conditions. Using standardized data from the North American Carbon
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Christopher R. Schwalm, Christopher A. Williams, Kevin Schaefer, Ryan Anderson, M. A. Arain, I. Baker, Alan Barr, T. Andrew Black, Guangsheng Chen, Jing M. Chen, Philippe Ciais, Kenneth J. Davis, Lianhong Gu, David Hollinger, R. C. Izaurralde, Chris Kucharik, P. Lafleur, Beverly E. Law, Longhui Li, Zhengpeng Li, Shuguang Liu, E. Lokupitiya, Y. Luo, Siyan Ma, Hank A. Margolis, Roser Matamala, Harry McCaughey, Russell K. Monson, Walter C. Oechel, Changhui Peng, Benjamin Poulter, David T. Price, Dan M. Riciutto, William Riley, A. Sahoo, M. Sprintsin, J. Sun, H. Tian, Christina Tonitto, Hans Verbeeck, Shashi B. Verma

Drought Monitoring with VegDRI

Drought strikes somewhere in the United States every year, turning green landscapes brown as precipitation falls below normal levels and water supplies dwindle. Drought is typically a temporary climatic aberration, but it is also an insidious natural hazard. It might last for weeks, months, or years and may have many negative effects. Drought can threaten crops, livestock, and livelihoods, stress
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Jesslyn F. Brown