Radiometric calibration of a non-imaging airborne spectrometer to measure the Greenland ice sheet surface
Christopher J. Crawford, Jeannette van den Bosch, Kelly M. Brunt, Milton G. Hom, John W. Cooper, David J. Harding, James J. Butler, Philip W. Dabney, Thomas A. Neumann, Craig S. Cleckner, Thorsten Markus
2019, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (12) 1913-1933
Methods to radiometrically calibrate a non-imaging airborne visible-to-shortwave infrared (VSWIR) spectrometer to measure the Greenland ice sheet surface are presented. Airborne VSWIR measurement performance for bright Greenland ice and dark bare rock/soil targets is compared against the MODerate resolution atmospheric TRANsmission (MODTRAN®) radiative transfer code (version 6.0), and a coincident...
Water-balance modeling of selected lakes for evaluating viability as long-term fisheries in Kidder, Logan, and Stutsman Counties, North Dakota
Robert F. Lundgren, Benjamin C. York, Nathan A. Stroh, Aldo V. Vecchia
2019, Scientific Investigations Report 2019-5007
Water levels in lakes and wetlands in the central North Dakota Missouri Coteau region that were either dry or only sporadically held water since before the 1930s have been rising since the early 1990s in response to an extended wet period. The lakes have remained full since the mid-1990s, which...
Spatiotemporal remote sensing of ecosystem change and causation across Alaska
Neal J. Pastick, M. Torre Jorgenson, Scott J. Goetz, Benjamin M. Jones, Bruce K. Wylie, Burke J. Minsley, Hélène Genet, Joseph F. Knight, David K. Swanson, Janet C. Jorgenson
2019, Global Change Biology (25) 1171-1189
Contemporary climate change in Alaska has resulted in amplified rates of press and pulse disturbances that drive ecosystem change with significant consequences for socio‐environmental systems. Despite the vulnerability of Arctic and boreal landscapes to change, little has been done to characterize landscape change and associated drivers across northern high‐latitude ecosystems....
A new 30 meter resolution global shoreline vector and associated global islands database for the development of standardized ecological coastal units
Roger Sayre, Suzanne Noble, Sharon L. Hamann, Rebecca A. Smith, Dawn J. Wright, Sean P. Breyer, Kevin Butler, Keith Van Graafeiland, Charlie Frye, Deniz Karagulle, Dabney Hopkins, Drew Stephens, Kevin Kelly, Zeenatul Basher, Devon Burton, Jill Janene Cress, Karina Atkins, D. Paco Van Sistine, Beverly Friesen, Rebecca Allee, Tom Allen, Peter Aniello, Irawan Asaad, Mark John Costello, Kathy Goodin, Peter Harrison, Maria T. Kavanaugh, Helen Lillis, Eleonora Manca, Frank E. Muller-Karger, Bjorn Nyberg, Rost Parsons, Justin Saarinen, Jac Steiner, Adam Reed
2019, Journal of Operational Oceanography (12) s47-s56
A new 30-m spatial resolution global shoreline vector (GSV) was developed from annual composites of 2014 Landsat satellite imagery. The semi-automated classification of the imagery was accomplished by manual selection of training points representing water and non-water classes along the entire global coastline. Polygon topology was applied to the GSV,...
Mapping a keystone shrub species, huckleberry (Vaccinium membranaceum), using seasonal colour change in the Rocky Mountains
Carolyn R. Shores, Nathaniel Mikle, Tabitha A. Graves
2019, International Journal of Remote Sensing (40) 5695-5715
Black huckleberries (Vaccinium membranaceum) provide a critical food resource to many wildlife species, including apex omnivores such as the grizzly bear (Ursus arctos), and play an important socioeconomic role for many communities in western North America, especially indigenous peoples. Remote sensing imagery offers the potential for accurate landscape-level mapping of...
Landsat: The cornerstone of global land imaging
Ginger Butcher, Christopher Barnes, Linda Owen
2019, GIM International (January/February 2019) 31-35
Since 1972, the joint NASA/ U.S. Geological Survey Landsat series of Earth Observation satellites have provided an uninterrupted space-based data record of the Earth’s land surface to help advance scientific research towards the understanding of our planet and the environmental impact of its inhabitants. Early Landsat satellites offered a wealth...
Improved automated detection of subpixel-scale inundation – Revised Dynamic Surface Water Extent (DSWE) partial surface water tests
John Jones
2019, Remote Sensing (11) 1-26
In order to produce useful hydrologic and aquatic habitat data from the Landsat system, the U.S. Geological Survey has developed the “Dynamic Surface Water Extent” (DSWE) Landsat Science Product. DSWE will provide long-term, high-temporal resolution data on variations in inundation extent. The model used to generate DSWE is composed of...
The potential role of very high-resolution imagery to characterise lake, wetland and stream systems across the Prairie Pothole Region, United States
Melanie K. Vanderhoof, Charles R. Lane
2019, International Journal of Remote Sensing (40) 5768-5798
Aquatic features critical to watershed hydrology range widely in size from narrow, shallow streams to large, deep lakes. In this study we evaluated wetland, lake, and river systems across the Prairie Pothole Region to explore where pan-sharpened high-resolution (PSHR) imagery, relative to Landsat imagery, could provide additional...
A bibliometric profile of the Remote Sensing Open Access Journal published by MDPI between 2009 and 2018
YuYing Zhang, Prasad S. Thenkabail, Peng Wang
2019, Remote Sensing (11) 1-34
Remote Sensing Open Access Journal (RS OAJ) is an international leading journal in the field of remote sensing science and technology. It was first published in the year 2009 and is currently celebrating tenth year of publications. In this research, a bibliometric analysis of RS OAJ was conducted based on...
Monitoring landscape dynamics in central U.S. grasslands with harmonized Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 time series data
Qiang Zhou, Jennifer Rover, Jesslyn F. Brown, Bruce B. Worstell, Danny Howard, Zhuoting Wu, Alisa L. Gallant, Bradley Rundquist, Morgan Burke
2019, Remote Sensing (11)
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, habitat availability for wildlife, and other ecosystem processes and services. Traditionally, coarse-resolution satellite data acquired at daily intervals have...
Investigating lake-area dynamics across a permafrost-thaw spectrum using airborne electromagnetic surveys and remote sensing time-series data in Yukon Flats, Alaska
David M. Rey, Michelle Ann Walvoord, Burke Minsley, Jennifer Rover, Kamini Singha
2019, Environmental Research Letters (14) 1-13
Lakes in boreal lowlands cycle carbon and supply an important source of freshwater for wildlife and migratory waterfowl. The abundance and distribution of these lakes are supported, in part, by permafrost distribution, which is subject to change. Relationships between permafrost thaw and lake dynamics remain poorly known in most boreal...
Using remote sensing to quantify ecosystem site potential community structure and deviation in the Great Basin, United States
Matthew B. Rigge, Collin G. Homer, Bruce K. Wylie, Yingxin Gu, Hua Shi, George Z. Xian, Debra K. Meyer, Brett Bunde
2019, Ecological Indicators (96) 516-531
The semi-arid Great Basin region in the Northwest U.S. is impacted by a suite of change agents including fire, grazing, and climate variability to which native vegetation can have low resilience and resistance. Assessing ecosystem condition in relation to these change agents is difficult due to a lack of a...
Estimating forest canopy cover dynamics in Valles Caldera National Preserve, New Mexico, using LiDAR and Landsat data
James W. Cain III, Kamal Humagain1, Carlos Portillo-Quintero1, Robert D. Cox1
2019, Applied Geography (99) 120-132
Increasing tree canopy cover has led to increasing wildfire activity in conifer dominated areas of the southwestern United States. Estimating historical changes in the spatial distribution of tree canopy cover can provide further insights into the dynamics of forest and fuel conditions in these landscapes...
Nominal 30-m cropland extent map of continental Africa by integrating pixel-based and object-based algorithms using Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 Data on Google Earth Engine
Jun Xiong, Prasad S. Thenkabail, James C. Tilton, Murali Krishna Gumma, Pardhasaradhi G. Teluguntla, Adam Oliphant, Russell G. Congalton, Kamini Yadav, Noel Gorelick
2019, Remote Sensing (9)
A satellite-derived cropland extent map at high spatial resolution (30-m or better) is a must for food and water security analysis. Precise and accurate global cropland extent maps, indicating cropland and non-cropland areas, are starting points to develop higher-level products such as crop watering methods (irrigated or rainfed), cropping intensities...
User needs for future Landsat missions
Zhuoting Wu, Gregory Snyder, Carolyn M. Vadnais, Rohit Arora, Michael Babcock, Gregory L. Stensaas, Peter Doucette, Timothy Newman
2019, Remote Sensing of Environment (231)
Landsat satellites have been operating since 1972, providing the longest continuous observation record of the Earth’s land surface. Over the past half century, the Landsat user community has grown exponentially, encompassing more diverse and evolving scientific research and operational uses. Understanding current and future user needs is crucial to informing...
Landsat-8 on-orbit and Landsat-9 pre-launch sensor radiometric characterization
Brian L. Markham, Julia A Barsi, Matthew Montanaro, Joel T McCorkel, Aaron Gerace, Jeffrey A. Pedelty, Simon J Hook, Nina G. Raqueno, Cody Anderson, Obaidul Haque
2018, Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE
Landsat-8 has been operating on-orbit for 5+ years. Its two sensors, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) and Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS), are continuing to produce high quality data. The OLI has been radiometrically stable at the better than 0.3% level on a band average basis for all but the shortest...
Landsat benefiting society for fifty years
Laura E. P. Rocchio, Peggy Connot, Steve Young, Kate Ramsayer, Linda Owen, Michelle Bouchard, Christopher Barnes
2018, Report
Since 1972, data acquired by the Landsat series of satellites have become integral to land management for both government and the private sector, providing scientists and decision makers with key information about agricultural productivity, ice sheet dynamics, urban growth, forest monitoring, natural resource management, water quality, and supporting disaster response....
Addressing the water consumption riddle
Peggy Connot, Steve Young
2018, Report, Landsat benefiting society for fifty years
No abstract available....
After the fire: Landsat helps map the way forward
Steve Young, Peggy Connot
2018, Report, Landsat benefiting society for fifty years
No abstract available....
Interior Least Tern sandbar nesting habitat measurements from Landsat Thematic Mapper imagery
Edward A. Bulliner, Caroline M. Elliott, Robert B. Jacobson, Casey Lott
2018, Data Series 1098
Sandbars of large sand-bedded rivers of the central United States serve important ecological functions to many species, including the endangered Interior Least Tern (Sternula antillarum, ILT). The ILT is a colonial bird that feeds on fish and nests primarily on riverine sandbars during its annual breeding season of around May...
Crop water productivity estimation with hyperspectral remote sensing
Michael Marshall, Itiya P. Aneece, Daniel Foley, Cai Xueliang, Trent Biggs
2018, Book chapter, Hyperspectral remote sensing of vegetation: Advanced applications in remote Sensing of agricultural crops and natural vegetation
Crop water productivity (CWP) is the ratio of accumulated crop biomass or yield (Y) to the water utilized to produce it, which is typically estimated using transpiration (ETC). CWP is an important metric to test and monitor water-saving strategies in agroecosystems across the globe. Red and near-infrared broadbands have been...
Analysis ready data: Enabling analysis of the Landsat archive
John L. Dwyer, David P. Roy, Brian Sauer, Calli B. Jenkerson, Hankui K. Zhang, Leo Lymburner
2018, Remote Sensing (10)
Data that have been processed to allow analysis with a minimum of additional user effort are often referred to as Analysis Ready Data (ARD). The ability...
Analysis of multi-decadal wetland changes, and cumulative impact of multiple storms 1984 to 2017
Steven H. Douglas, Julie Bernier, Kathryn Smith
2018, Wetlands Ecology and Management (26) 1121-1142
Land-cover classification analysis using Landsat satellite imagery acquired between 1984 and 2017 quantified short- (post-Hurricane Sandy) and long-term wetland-change trends along the Maryland and Virginia coasts between Metompkin Bay, VA and Ocean City, MD. Although there are limited options for upland migration of wetlands in the study area, regression analysis...
Remote sensing vegetation index methods to evaluate changes in greenness and evapotranspiration in riparian vegetation in response to the Minute 319 environmental pulse flow to Mexico
Pamela L. Nagler, Christopher J. Jarchow, Edward P. Glenn
2018, Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (380) 45-54
During the spring of 2014, 130 million m3 of water were released from the United States' Morelos Dam on the lower Colorado River to Mexico, allowing water to reach the Gulf of California for the first time in 13 years. Our study assessed the effects of water transfer or ecological environmental flows from...
Estimating soil respiration in a subalpine landscape using point, terrain, climate and greenness data
Erin Michele Berryman, Melanie K. Vanderhoof, John B. Bradford, Todd Hawbaker, Paul D. Henne, Sean P. Burns, John M. Frank, Richard A. Birdsey, Michael G. Ryan
2018, Journal of Geophysical Research G: Biogeosciences (123) 3231-3249
Landscape carbon (C) flux estimates are necessary for assessing the ability of terrestrial ecosystems to buffer further increases in anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Advances in remote sensing have allowed for coarse-scale estimates of gross primary productivity (GPP) (e.g., MODIS 17), yet efforts to assess spatial patterns in respiration lag...
