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Irrigated areas of India derived from satellite sensors and national statistics: A way forward from GIAM experience
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Prasad S. Thenkabail, Maji Amal Kumar, Chandrashekhar M. Biradar, Praveen Noojipady, G. Chandrakantha, Venkateswarlu Dheeravath, Manohar Velpuri, Obi Reddy P. Gangalakunta
Remote sensing of global croplands for food security: Way forward
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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Prasad S. Thenkabail, John G. Lyon
Global irrigated area maps (GIAM) and statistics using remote sensing
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Prasad S. Thenkabail, Y.J. Li, Chandrashekhar M. Biradar, Murali Krishna Gumma, Praveen Noojipady, Venkateswarlu Dheeravath, Manohar Velpuri, Obi Reddy P. Gangalakunta
A history of irrigated areas of the world
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Prasad S. Thenkabail, Xueliang L. Cai, Y.J. Li, Chandrashekhar M. Biradar, Praveen Noojipady, Venkateswarlu Dheeravath, Manohar Velpuri, Obi Reddy P. Gangalakunta
Context, need: The need and scope for mapping global irrigated and rain-fed areas
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Prasad S. Thenkabail, Chandrashekhar M. Biradar, Hugh Turral, John G. Lyon
Remote sensing of global croplands for food security
Increases in populations have created an increasing demand for food crops while increases in demand for biofuels have created an increase in demand for fuel crops. What has not increased is the amount of croplands and their productivity. These and many other factors such as decreasing water resources in a changing climate have created a crisis like situation in global food security. Decision maker
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Prasad S. Thenkabail, Chandrashekhar M. Biradar, Hugh Turral, John G. Lyon
Global Map of Rainfed Cropland Areas (GMRCA) and statistics using remote sensing
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Chandrashekhar M. Biradar, Prasad S. Thenkabail, Praveen Noojipady, Y.J. Li, Venkateswarlu Dheeravath, Manohar Velpuri, Hugh Turral, Xueliang L. Cai, Murali Krishna Gumma, Obi Reddy P. Gangalakunta
Urbanization and changing land use in the Great Basin
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Alicia Torregrosa, Nora Devoe
Uncertainty and sensitivity issues in process-based models of carbon and nitrogen cycles in terrestrial ecosystems
Many process-based models of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycles have been developed for northern forest ecosystems. These models are widely used to evaluate the long-term decisions in forest management dealing with effects like particulate pollution, productivity and climate change. Regarding climate change, one of the key questions that have sensitive political implications is whether northern fo
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Guy R. Larocque, Jagtar S. Bhatti, A.M. Gordon, N. Luckai, M. Wattenbach, Jinxun Liu, Peng C., P.A. Arp, S. Liu, C.F. Zhang, A Komarov, P. Grabarnik, J. Sun, T. White
Elevation Derivatives for Mojave Desert Tortoise Habitat
This report describes the methods used to derive various elevation-derivative grids that were inputted to the Mojave Desert Tortoise Habitat model (L. Gass and others, unpub. data). These grids, which capture information on surface roughness and topographic characteristics, are a subset of the environmental datasets evaluated for the tortoise habitat model. This habitat model is of major importanc
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Cynthia S.A. Wallace, Leila Gass
Proceedings of a USGS Workshop on Facing Tomorrow's Challenges Along the U.S.-Mexico Border - Monitoring, Modeling, and Forecasting Change Within the Arizona-Sonora Transboundary Watersheds
INTRODUCTION TO THE WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS
Competition for water resources, habitats, and urban areas in the Borderlands has become an international concern. In the United States, Department of Interior Bureaus, Native American Tribes, and other State and Federal partners rely on the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to provide unbiased science and leadership in the Borderlands region. Consequently,
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Laura M. Norman, Derrick D. Hirsch, A. Wesley Ward
A New Method for Mapping Population Distribution
Human population counts are collected and commonly displayed uniformly across areas, such as U.S. Census Bureau block-groups and tracts. The limitation inherent in this type of representation is the assumption that people are evenly distributed across each areal unit, when in actuality many areas such as parks, open spaces, and industrial zones are uninhabited. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) ha
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Rachel Sleeter