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Exotic annual grass (EAG) phenology estimates in the western U.S. rangelands based on 30-m HLS NDVI (ver. 2.0, April 2024)

August 8, 2022

Phenological dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems reflect the response of the Earth's vegetation canopy to changes in climate and hydrology and are thus important to monitor operationally. The Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) phenology in the western U.S. rangeland based on 30m near seamless Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) weekly composites between 2016 and 2021 (Dahal et al., 2022) were processed using these 3 methods: (1) NDVI threshold-based method, (2) manual phenological metrics, and (3) modeling and mapping. The EAG phenology model produced eight metrics identifying the sustainable growth characteristics of 16 EAG species throughout level III Commission for Environmental Cooperation [...]

Publication Year 2022
Title Exotic annual grass (EAG) phenology estimates in the western U.S. rangelands based on 30-m HLS NDVI (ver. 2.0, April 2024)
DOI 10.5066/P93M8TEK
Authors Trenton (Contractor) D Benedict, Stephen Boyte, Devendra (Contractor) Dahal, Dinesh (Contractor) Shrestha, Sujan (Contractor) Parajuli, Logan (Contractor) J Megard
Product Type Data Release
Record Source USGS Digital Object Identifier Catalog
USGS Organization Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center