An overview of the LANDFIRE Prototype Project
Robert E. Keane, Zhiliang Zhu, James P. Menakis
2006, General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-175-2
This chapter describes the background and design of the Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Prototype Project, or LANDFIRE Prototype Project, which was a sub-regional, proof-of-concept effort designed to develop methods and applications for providing the high-resolution data (30-m pixel) needed to support wildland fire management and to implement...
Executive summary
Matthew G. Rollins, Robert E. Keane, Zhiliang Zhu
2006, General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-175-1
Geospatial data describing wildland fuel and current as well as historical vegetation conditions are essential for planning, implementing, and monitoring projects supported by the National Fire Plan and the Healthy Forests Restoration Act. Scientifically credible, consistent, and standardized spatial data allow fire and land managers to accurately identify the amount...
Perspectives on LANDFIRE Prototype Project accuracy assessment
James Vogelmann, Zhiliang Zhu, Jay R. Kost, Brian L. Tolk, Donald O. Ohlen
2006, General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-175-13
The purpose of this chapter is to provide a general overview of the many aspects of accuracy assessment pertinent to the Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Prototype Project (LANDFIRE Prototype Project). The LANDFIRE Prototype formed a large and complex research and development project with many broad-scale data sets...
Mapping existing vegetation composition and structure for the LANDFIRE Prototype Project
Zhiliang Zhu, James Vogelmann, Donald O. Ohlen, Jay R. Kost, Xuexia Chen, Brian L. Tolk
2006, General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-175-8
The Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Prototype Project, or LANDFIRE Prototype Project, required the mapping of existing vegetation composition (cover type) and structural stages at a 30-m spatial resolution to provide baseline vegetation data for the development of wildland fuel maps and for comparison to simulated historical vegetation...
Dissemination of LANDFIRE Prototype Project data
Jeffery C. Eidenshink
2006, General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-175-14
The transfer of LANDFIRE data to users is the most important aspect of the Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Project (LANDFIRE Prototype Project). The creation of an accurate, consistent, nationwide data set provides the foundation for a successful project. The final step is to make the data readily...
Range condition as input to water quality monitoring in the northern Plains
Eric C. Wood, Bruce K. Wylie, Jesslyn F. Brown, David J. Meyer, Susan Maxwell, Bradley C. Reed
2006, Conference Paper, Prospecting for geospatial information integration
Federal Clean Water Act requires that states develop Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) for water bodies. Once the state has developed an inventory of TMDLs, it is required to provide public notice of the report and have it approved by the Environmental Protection Agency. The South Dakota Department of Environment...
Analysis of urban land use change in the Las Vegas metropolitan area using multi-temporal satellite imagery
George Z. Xian, Mike Crane, C. McMahon
2006, Conference Paper, Prospecting for geospatial information integration
Urban development has expanded rapidly in Las Vegas, Nevada, over the last fifty years. To assess urban land use change in the area, a sub-pixel change detection approach has been used to map urban extent and its temporal changes by determining sub-pixel level impervious surface areas from Landsat satellite remote...
Model-data fusion in the studies of terrestrial carbon sink
G.A. Alexandrov, D. Chan, M. Chen, K. Gurney, K Higuchi, A Ito, C.D. Jones, A Komarov, K Mabuchi, D.M. Matross, F Veroustraete, W.W. Verstreten
2006, Conference Paper
Current uncertainty in quantifying the global carbon budget remains a major contributing source of uncertainty in reliably projecting future climate change. Furthermore, quantifying the global carbon budget and characterizing uncertainties have emerged as critical to a successful implementation of United National Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol....
Impacts of Tioga Road on groundwater flow in Tuolumne Meadows: Preliminary conceptual model and numerical analysis
David J. Cooper, Jessica D. Lundquist, Fred C. Lott, Alan L. Flint, Lorraine E. Flint, James Roche
2006, Book chapter, Effects of the Tioga Road on hydrologic processes and Lodgepole pine invasion into Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite National Park
No abstract available....
Radiometric characterization and performance assessment of the Ali using bulk trended data
Tim Ruggles, Dennis Helder, Douglas M. Hollaren, Jim Nelson, Ron Morfitt
2006, Conference Paper, Global priorities in land remote sensing
No abstract available....
Remote sensing observations of landslides and ground deformation from the 2004 Niigata Ken Chuetsu earthquake
Ellen M. Rathje, Robert E. Kayen, Kyu-Seok Woo
2006, Soils and Foundations (46) 831-842
In recent years, major developments in remote sensing have made it possible to use these technologies to document the effects of earthquakes. Specifically, high-resolution satellite imagery and three-dimensional laser scanning (LIDAR) can provide important observations of earthquake damage that supplement traditional observations from field reconnaissance. The 2004 Niigata Ken Chuetsu...
Overview of the Opportunity Mars Exploration Rover Mission to Meridiani Planum: Eagle Crater to Purgatory Ripple
S. W. Squyres, R. E. Arvidson, D. Bollen, J.F. Bell III, J. Bruckner, N.A. Cabrol, W. M. Calvin, M. H. Carr, P. R. Christensen, B. C. Clark, L. Crumpler, D.J. Des Marais, C. D'Uston, T. Economou, J. Farmer, W.H. Farrand, W. Folkner, R. Gellert, T.D. Glotch, M. Golombek, S. Gorevan, J. A. Grant, R. Greeley, J. Grotzinger, Kenneth E. Herkenhoff, S. Hviid, J. R. Johnson, G. Klingelhoefer, A.H. Knoll, G. Landis, M. Lemmon, Ron Li, M.B. Madsen, M.C. Malin, S. M. McLennan, H.Y. McSween, D. W. Ming, J. Moersch, R.V. Morris, T. Parker, J. W. Rice Jr., L. Richter, R. Rieder, Christian Schroeder, M. Sims, M. Smith, P. Smith, Laurence A. Soderblom, R. Sullivan, N.J. Tosca, H. Wänke, T. Wdowiak, M. Wolff, A. Yen
2006, Journal of Geophysical Research E: Planets (111)
The Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity touched down at Meridiani Planum in January 2004 and since then has been conducting observations with the Athena science payload. The rover has traversed more than 5 km, carrying out the first outcrop‐scale investigation of sedimentary rocks on Mars. The rocks of Meridiani Planum are...
Neotypes for paleocene species in the momipites-caryapollenites pollen lineage
Douglas J. Nichols, Henry L. Ott
2006, Palynology (30) 33-41
Neotypes are designated herein for certain Paleocene species of juglandaceous pollen that were originally described in 1978. The microscope slides bearing the holotypes have been lost, eliminating the possibility of designating lectotypes and necessitating, instead, the designation of neotype specimens to stabilize the nomenclature of the...
Conceptual ecological model for management of breeding shrubland birds in the Mid-Atlantic Region
Bruce G. Peterjohn
2006, Technical Report NPS/NER/NRTR--2006/043
While grassland birds have become the focus of increased conservation activities, the status of birds occupying shrubland habitats has received relatively little attention (Hunter et al. 2001). Yet, in eastern North America, shrubland birds exhibited consistent population declines during the past 40 years, based on data from the North American...
Studies by the U.S. Geological Survey in Alaska, 2005
Peter J. Haeussler, John P. Galloway, editor(s)
2006, Professional Paper 1732
Summary The collection of papers that follows continues the series of U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) investigative reports in Alaska under the broad umbrella of the geologic sciences. This series represents new and sometimes-preliminary findings that are of interest to Earth scientists in academia, government, and industry; to land and resource...
Denitrification across landscapes and waterscapes: A synthesis
S. Seitzinger, J. A. Harrison, J.K. Böhlke, A.F. Bouwman, R. Lowrance, B. Peterson, C. Tobias, G. Van Drecht
2006, Ecological Applications (16) 2064-2090
Denitrification is a critical process regulating the removal of bioavailable nitrogen (N) from natural and human-altered systems. While it has been extensively studied in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine systems, there has been limited communication among denitrification scientists working in these individual systems. Here, we compare rates of denitrification and controlling...
Environmental controls on denitrifying communities and denitrification rates: Insights from molecular methods
Matthew D. Wallenstein, David D. Myrold, Mary Firestone, Mary Voytek
2006, Ecological Applications (16) 2143-2152
The advent of molecular techniques has improved our understanding of the microbial communities responsible for denitrification and is beginning to address their role in controlling denitrification processes. There is a large diversity of bacteria, archaea, and fungi capable of denitrification, and their community composition is structured by long-term environmental drivers....
Methods for measuring denitrification: Diverse approaches to a difficult problem
Peter M Groffman, Mary A. Altabet, J.K. Böhlke, Klaus Butterbach-Bahl, Mary B. David, Mary K. Firestone, Anne E. Giblin, Todd M. Kana, Lars Peter Nielsen, Mary A. Voytek
2006, Ecological Applications (16) 2091-2122
Denitrification, the reduction of the nitrogen (N) oxides, nitrate (NO3−) and nitrite (NO2−), to the gases nitric oxide (NO), nitrous oxide (N2O), and dinitrogen (N2), is important to primary production, water quality, and the chemistry and physics of the atmosphere at ecosystem, landscape, regional, and global scales. Unfortunately, this process...
Bottom instrumented tripods: History, applications, and impacts
D.A. Cacchione, R.W. Sternberg, A S Ogston
2006, Continental Shelf Research (26) 2319-2334
Instrumented bottom tripods have provided important data on sediment transport processes on continental shelves and in estuaries for four decades. Since the initial deployment in a tidal channel in Puget Sound, WA, in 1965 numerous tripods have been constructed to investigate bottom boundary layer and sediment dynamics worldwide. Tripod data have...
Statistical characteristics of storm interevent time, depth, and duration for eastern New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas
William H. Asquith, Meghan C. Roussel, Theodore G. Cleveland, Xing Fang, David B. Thompson
2006, Professional Paper 1725
The design of small runoff-control structures, from simple floodwater-detention basins to sophisticated best-management practices, requires the statistical characterization of rainfall as a basis for cost-effective, risk-mitigated, hydrologic engineering design. The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Texas Department of Transportation, has developed a framework to estimate storm statistics including...
Water-quality trend analysis and sampling design for the Devils Lake Basin, North Dakota, January 1965 through September 2003
Karen R. Ryberg, Aldo V. Vecchia
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5238
This report presents the results of a study conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the North Dakota State Water Commission, the Devils Lake Basin Joint Water Resource Board, and the Red River Joint Water Resource District, to analyze historical water-quality trends in three dissolved major ions, three...
Soil Data from a Moderately Well and Somewhat Poorly Drained Fire Chronosequence near Thompson, Manitoba, Canada
K.L. Manies, J.W. Harden, Hugo Veldhuis, Sue Trumbore
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1291
The U.S. Geological Survey project Fate of Carbon in Alaskan Landscapes (FOCAL) is studying the effect of fire and soil drainage on soil carbon storage in the boreal forest. As such this group was invited to be a part of a NSF-funded project (Fire, Ecosystem and Succession - Experiment Boreal...
Atlas of relations between climatic parameters and distributions of important trees and shrubs in North America - Alaska species and ecoregions
Robert S. Thompson, Katherine H. Anderson, Laura E. Strickland, Sarah L. Shafer, Richard T. Pelltier, Patrick J. Bartlein
2006, Professional Paper 1650-D
Climate is the primary factor in controlling the continental-scale distribution of plant species, although the relations between climatic parameters and species' ranges is only now beginning to be quantified. Preceding volumes of this atlas explored the continental-scale relations between climatic parameters and the distributions of woody plant species across all...
Tularemia
Milton Friend
2006, Circular 1297
The Field Audit Site Operator Training
Gregory A. Wetherbee, Shannon M. Greene, John A. Gehrke
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1010
