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Global mapping of irrigated and rain-fed cropland areas using remote sensing
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Thomas Loveland
Quantifying the spatial details of carbon sequestration potential and performance
Upscaling the spatial and temporal changes of carbon stocks and fluxes from sites to regions is challenging owing to the spatial and temporal variances and covariance of driving variables and the uncertainties in both the model and the input data. Although various modeling approaches have been developed to facilitate the upscaling process, few deal with error transfer from model input to output, a
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S. Liu
Landsat mapping of local landscape change: The satellite-era context
To set the stage for a vulnerability analysis, investigators must describe and understand the geographic context, including physical characteristics of the landscape and the political and socioeconomic milieu of the population (Jianchu et al. 2005). Vulnerability studies focus on a particular place, at a specific time through its three dimensions, exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity; ther
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Rachel Headley, Robert Gilmore Pontius, John Harrington, Cynthia Sorrensen
Climate change, land‐cover dynamics and ecohydrology of the Nile River Basin
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Assefa M. Melesse, Athanasios G. Loukas, Gabriel Senay, Muluneh Yitayew
The role of remote sensing and GIS for wildland fire hazard assessment
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James Vogelmann, Donald O. Ohlen, Z Zhu, S. M. Howard, M.G. Rollins
Rapid assessment of U.S. forest and soil organic carbon storage and forest biomass carbon sequestration capacity
This report provides results of a rapid assessment of biological carbon stocks and forest biomass carbon sequestration capacity in the conterminous United States. Maps available from the U.S. Department of Agriculture are used to calculate estimates of current organic carbon storage in soils (73 petagrams of carbon, or PgC) and forest biomass (17 PgC). Of these totals, 3.5 PgC of soil organic carb
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Eric T. Sundquist, Katherine V. Ackerman, Norman B. Bliss, Josef M. Kellndorfer, Matt C. Reeves, Matthew G. Rollins
Mapping irrigated lands across the United States using MODIS satellite imagery
This book opens a new pathway for global mapping that is focused on a specific land use theme, such as irrigated or rain-fed croplands and classes within these themes. Since croplands use most of the water consumed by humans, specific knowledge of irrigated and rain-fed croplands will be critical for precise estimates of water use. At present and in the coming decades, irrigated and rain-fed cropl
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J.F. Brown, S.K. Maxwell, Md Shahriar Pervez
Greater Platte River Basins - Science to sustain ecosystems and communities
The Greater Platte River Basins (GPRB), located in the heartland of the United States, provides a collaborative opportunity for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and its partners to understand the sustainability of natural and managed ecosystems under changing climate and resource requirements.The Greater Platte River Basins, an area of about 140,000 square miles, sustains thousands of acres of la
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June M. Thormodsgard
Mapping and Visualization of Storm-Surge Dynamics for Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita
The damages caused by the storm surges from Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita were significant and occurred over broad areas. Storm-surge maps are among the most useful geospatial datasets for hurricane recovery, impact assessments, and mitigation planning for future storms. Surveyed high-water marks were used to generate a maximum storm-surge surface for Hurricane Katrina extending from easter
Authors
Dean B. Gesch
Sample project: establishing a global forest monitoring capability using multi-resolution and multi-temporal remotely sensed data sets
Quantifying rates of forest-cover change is important for improved carbon accounting and climate change modeling, management of forestry and agricultural resources, and biodiversity monitoring. A practical solution to examining trends in forest cover change at global scale is to employ remotely sensed data. Satellite-based monitoring of forest cover can be implemented consistently across large reg
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Matt Hansen, Steve Stehman, Tom Loveland, Jim Vogelmann, Mark Cochrane
Agroenvironmental transformation in the Sahel: Another kind of "green revolution"
A farmer-managed, agroenvironmental transformation has occurred over the past three decades in the West African Sahel, enabling both land rehabilitation and agricultural intensification to support a dense and growing population. This paper traces the technical and institutional innovations, their impacts, and lessons learned from two successful examples. The first is the story of the improvement a
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Chris Reij, G. Gray Tappan, Melinda Smale