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View article: Resiliency of land change monitoring efforts to input data resampling
Resiliency of land change monitoring efforts to input data resampling Open
The geometric transformation of remotely sensed imagery from one map projection to another necessitates a data resampling operation which alters the recorded values. The global Landsat archive is made available in the Universal Transverse …
View article: An interagency perspective on improving consistency and transparency of land use and land cover mapping
An interagency perspective on improving consistency and transparency of land use and land cover mapping Open
View article: Using seasonal climate scenarios in the <scp>ForageAhead</scp> annual forage production model for early drought impact assessment
Using seasonal climate scenarios in the <span>ForageAhead</span> annual forage production model for early drought impact assessment Open
High interannual variability of forage production in semiarid grasslands leads to uncertainties when livestock producers make decisions, such as buying additional feed, relocating animals, or using flexible stocking. Within‐season predicti…
View article: Trends in tree cover change over three decades related to interannual climate variability and wildfire in California
Trends in tree cover change over three decades related to interannual climate variability and wildfire in California Open
The U.S. State of California has experienced frequent drought events, hotter temperatures and other disruptions to the climate system whose effects on ecosystems have been widely reported in recent decades. Studies primarily confined to sp…
View article: Conterminous United States Land-Cover Change (1985–2016): New Insights from Annual Time Series
Conterminous United States Land-Cover Change (1985–2016): New Insights from Annual Time Series Open
Sample-based estimates augmented by complete coverage land-cover maps were used to estimate area and describe patterns of annual land-cover change across the conterminous United States (CONUS) between 1985 and 2016. Most of the CONUS land …
View article: Implementation of the CCDC algorithm to produce the LCMAP Collection 1.0 annual land surface change product
Implementation of the CCDC algorithm to produce the LCMAP Collection 1.0 annual land surface change product Open
The increasing availability of high-quality remote sensing data and advanced technologies has spurred land cover mapping to characterize land change from local to global scales. However, most land change datasets either span multiple decad…
View article: Temporal Greenness Trends in Stable Natural Land Cover and Relationships with Climatic Variability across the Conterminous United States
Temporal Greenness Trends in Stable Natural Land Cover and Relationships with Climatic Variability across the Conterminous United States Open
Assessment of temporal trends in vegetation greenness and related influences aids understanding of recent changes in terrestrial ecosystems and feedbacks from weather, climate, and environment. We analyzed 1-km normalized difference vegeta…
View article: Comment on essd-2021-202
Comment on essd-2021-202 Open
Abstract. The increasing availability of high-quality remote sensing data and advanced technologies has spurred land cover mapping to characterize land change from local to global scales. However, most land change datasets…
View article: Comment on essd-2021-202
Comment on essd-2021-202 Open
Abstract. The increasing availability of high-quality remote sensing data and advanced technologies has spurred land cover mapping to characterize land change from local to global scales. However, most land change datasets…
View article: Implementation of CCDC to produce the LCMAP Collection 1.0 annual land surface change product
Implementation of CCDC to produce the LCMAP Collection 1.0 annual land surface change product Open
The increasing availability of high-quality remote sensing data and advanced technologies have spurred land cover mapping to characterize land change from local to global scales. However, most land change datasets either span multiple deca…
View article: Supplementary material to "Implementation of CCDC to produce the LCMAP Collection 1.0 annual land surface change product"
Supplementary material to "Implementation of CCDC to produce the LCMAP Collection 1.0 annual land surface change product" Open
Data filtering and model fittingThe removal of invalid and cloud-contaminated data points is important for deriving model coefficients that accurately represent the phenology of the surface, and for the correct identification of model brea…
View article: Hotter Drought Escalates Tree Cover Declines in Blue Oak Woodlands of California
Hotter Drought Escalates Tree Cover Declines in Blue Oak Woodlands of California Open
California has, in recent years, become a hotspot of interannual climatic variability, recording devastating climate-related disturbances with severe effects on tree resources. Understanding the patterns of tree cover change associated wit…
View article: Exploring the Regional Dynamics of U.S. Irrigated Agriculture from 2002 to 2017
Exploring the Regional Dynamics of U.S. Irrigated Agriculture from 2002 to 2017 Open
The United States has a geographically mature and stable land use and land cover system including land used as irrigated cropland; however, changes in irrigation land use frequently occur related to various drivers. We applied a consistent…
View article: Exploring VIIRS Continuity with MODIS in an Expedited Capability for Monitoring Drought-Related Vegetation Conditions
Exploring VIIRS Continuity with MODIS in an Expedited Capability for Monitoring Drought-Related Vegetation Conditions Open
Vegetation has been effectively monitored using remote sensing time-series vegetation index (VI) data for several decades. Drought monitoring has been a common application with algorithms tuned to capturing anomalous temporal and spatial v…
View article: Investigating the Effects of Land Use and Land Cover on the Relationship between Moisture and Reflectance Using Landsat Time Series
Investigating the Effects of Land Use and Land Cover on the Relationship between Moisture and Reflectance Using Landsat Time Series Open
To better understand the Earth system, it is important to investigate the interactions between precipitation, land use/land cover (LULC), and the land surface, especially vegetation. An improved understanding of these land-atmosphere inter…
View article: Land change monitoring, assessment, and projection
Land change monitoring, assessment, and projection Open
First posted April 15, 2020 For additional information, contact: Customer Service, Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS)U.S. Geological Survey47914 252d Street Sioux Falls, SD 57198https://www.usgs.gov/land-resources/eros/l…
View article: Multi-resolution analysis of aggregated spatial data to simulate yield and irrigation water demand at regional scales
Multi-resolution analysis of aggregated spatial data to simulate yield and irrigation water demand at regional scales Open
Input data aggregation influences crop model estimates at the regional level (Eyshi Rezaei et al., 2015). Previous studies have focused on the impact of aggregating the climate data used to compute crop yields (Hoffmann et al., 2015; van B…
View article: Monitoring Landscape Dynamics in Central U.S. Grasslands with Harmonized Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 Time Series Data
Monitoring Landscape Dynamics in Central U.S. Grasslands with Harmonized Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 Time Series Data Open
Remotely monitoring changes in central U.S. grasslands is challenging because these landscapes tend to respond quickly to disturbances and changes in weather. Such dynamic responses influence nutrient cycling, greenhouse gas contributions,…
View article: Exploring relationships of spring green-up to moisture and temperature across Wyoming, U.S.A
Exploring relationships of spring green-up to moisture and temperature across Wyoming, U.S.A Open
Vegetation green-up signals the timing of available nutritious plants and shrubs providing high-quality forage for ungulates. In this study, we characterized spatial and temporal patterns of spring phenology and explored how they were rela…
View article: Multi-year data from satellite- and ground-based sensors show details and scale matter in assessing climate’s effects on wetland surface water, amphibians, and landscape conditions
Multi-year data from satellite- and ground-based sensors show details and scale matter in assessing climate’s effects on wetland surface water, amphibians, and landscape conditions Open
Long-term, interdisciplinary studies of relations between climate and ecological conditions on wetland-upland landscapes have been lacking, especially studies integrated across scales meaningful for adaptive resource management. We collect…
View article: Optimizing a remote sensing production efficiency model for macro-scale GPP and yield estimation in agroecosystems
Optimizing a remote sensing production efficiency model for macro-scale GPP and yield estimation in agroecosystems Open
Earth observation data are increasingly used to provide consistent eco-physiological information over large areas through time. Production efficiency models (PEMs) estimate Gross Primary Production (GPP) as a function of the fraction of ph…
View article: Drought and Land-Cover Conditions in the Great Plains
Drought and Land-Cover Conditions in the Great Plains Open
Land–atmosphere interactions play a critical role in the Earth system, and a better understanding of these interactions could improve weather and climate models. The interaction among drought, vegetation productivity, and land cover is of …
View article: Challenges in Complementing Data from Ground-Based Sensors with Satellite-Derived Products to Measure Ecological Changes in Relation to Climate—Lessons from Temperate Wetland-Upland Landscapes
Challenges in Complementing Data from Ground-Based Sensors with Satellite-Derived Products to Measure Ecological Changes in Relation to Climate—Lessons from Temperate Wetland-Upland Landscapes Open
Assessing climate-related ecological changes across spatiotemporal scales meaningful to resource managers is challenging because no one method reliably produces essential data at both fine and broad scales. We recently confronted such chal…
View article: Climatic and soil temperature observations at Atkasook on the Meade River, Alaska, Summer 1975
Climatic and soil temperature observations at Atkasook on the Meade River, Alaska, Summer 1975 Open
Air temperatures measured during the summer of 1975 indicated that the Meade River site, 120 km south of Barrow, has a distinctly continental summer temperature pattern in comparison to Barrow, which is cooler and has a smaller daily tempe…
View article: Assessing the evolution of soil moisture and vegetation conditions during the 2012 United States flash drought
Assessing the evolution of soil moisture and vegetation conditions during the 2012 United States flash drought Open
View article: Application-Ready Expedited MODIS Data for Operational Land Surface Monitoring of Vegetation Condition
Application-Ready Expedited MODIS Data for Operational Land Surface Monitoring of Vegetation Condition Open
Monitoring systems benefit from high temporal frequency image data collected from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) system. Because of near-daily global coverage, MODIS data are beneficial to applications that requi…
View article: The influence of drought on spring vegetation green-up
The influence of drought on spring vegetation green-up Open