Combining lake and watershed characteristics with Landsat TM data for remote estimation of regional lake clarity
Ian M. McCullough, Cyndy Loftin, Steven A. Sader
2012, Remote Sensing of Environment (123) 109-115
Water clarity is a reliable indicator of lake productivity and an ideal metric of regional water quality. Clarity is an indicator of other water quality variables including chlorophyll-a, total phosphorus and trophic status; however, unlike these metrics, clarity can be accurately and efficiently estimated remotely on a regional scale. Remote...
Approximating tasseled cap values to evaluate brightness, greenness, and wetness for the Advanced Land Imager (ALI)
Kristina H. Yamamoto, Michael P. Finn
2012, Scientific Investigations Report 2012-5057
The Tasseled Cap transformation is a method of image band conversion to enhance spectral information. It primarily is used to detect vegetation using the derived brightness, greenness, and wetness bands. An approximation of Tasseled Cap values for the Advanced Land Imager was investigated and compared to the Landsat Thematic Mapper...
Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) space to ground mission data architecture
Jack L. Nelson, J.A. Ames, J. Williams, R. Patschke, C. Mott, J. Joseph, H. Garon, G. Mah
2012, Conference Paper
The Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) is a scientific endeavor to extend the longest continuous multi-spectral imaging record of Earth's land surface. The observatory consists of a spacecraft bus integrated with two imaging instruments; the Operational Land Imager (OLI), built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation in Boulder, Colorado, and...
Land change variability and human-environment dynamics in the United States Great Plains
Mark A. Drummond, Roger F. Auch, Krista A. Karstensen, Kristi Sayler, Janis L. Taylor, Thomas R. Loveland
2012, Land Use Policy (29) 710-723
Land use and land cover changes have complex linkages to climate variability and change, biophysical resources, and socioeconomic driving forces. To assess these land change dynamics and their causes in the Great Plains, we compare and contrast contemporary changes across 16 ecoregions using Landsat satellite data and statistical analysis. Large-area...
An analytical method for predicting postwildfire peak discharges
John A. Moody
2012, Scientific Investigations Report 2011-5236
An analytical method presented here that predicts postwildfire peak discharge was developed from analysis of paired rainfall and runoff measurements collected from selected burned basins. Data were collected from 19 mountainous basins burned by eight wildfires in different hydroclimatic regimes in the western United States (California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico,...
The National Land Cover Database
Collin G. Homer, Joyce A. Fry, Christopher A. Barnes
2012, Fact Sheet 2012-3020
The National Land Cover Database (NLCD) serves as the definitive Landsat-based, 30-meter resolution, land cover database for the Nation. NLCD provides spatial reference and descriptive data for characteristics of the land surface such as thematic class (for example, urban, agriculture, and forest), percent impervious surface, and percent tree canopy cover....
A remote sensing approach for estimating the location and rate of urban irrigation in semi-arid climates
Tyler D. Johnson, Kenneth Belitz
2012, Journal of Hydrology (414-415) 86-98
Urban irrigation is an important component of the hydrologic cycle in many areas of the arid and semiarid western United States. This paper describes a new approach that uses readily available datasets to estimate the location and rate of urban irrigation. The approach provides a repeatable methodology at 1/3 km2...
Multi-scale remote sensing sagebrush characterization with regression trees over Wyoming, USA: laying a foundation for monitoring
Collin G. Homer, Cameron L. Aldridge, Debra K. Meyer, Spencer J. Schell
2012, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (14) 233-244
agebrush ecosystems in North America have experienced extensive degradation since European settlement. Further degradation continues from exotic invasive plants, altered fire frequency, intensive grazing practices, oil and gas development, and climate change – adding urgency to the need for ecosystem-wide understanding. Remote sensing is often identified as a key information...
Monitoring floods and fires during the summer of 2011--The value of the Landsat satellite 40-year archives
Linda Owen
2012, Fact Sheet 2012-3006
The summer of 2011 proved to be a season of extreme events. Heavy snowfall in the western mountains and excessive spring rains caused flooding along the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers; whereas extended dry conditions enabled fires to rage out of control from Alaska and Canada, south to Texas, Arizona, New...
Assessing long-term variations in sagebrush habitat: characterization of spatial extents and distribution patterns using multi-temporal satellite remote-sensing data
George Xian, Collin G. Homer, Cameron L. Aldridge
2012, International Journal of Remote Sensing (33) 2034-2058
An approach that can generate sagebrush habitat change estimates for monitoring large-area sagebrush ecosystems has been developed and tested in southwestern Wyoming, USA. This prototype method uses a satellite-based image change detection algorithm and regression models to estimate sub-pixel percentage cover for five sagebrush habitat components: bare ground, herbaceous, litter,...
Upper Klamath Basin Landsat Image for October 22, 2006: Path 44 Row 31
Daniel T. Snyder
2012, Report
This subset of a Landsat-5 image shows part of the upper Klamath Basin. The original images were obtained from the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS). EROS is responsible for archive management and distribution of Landsat data products. The Landsat-5 satellite is part of an ongoing...
Upper Klamath Basin Landsat Image for September 30, 2004: Path 44 Row 31
Daniel T. Snyder
2012, Report
This subset of a Landsat-5 image shows part of the upper Klamath Basin. The original images were obtained from the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS). EROS is responsible for archive management and distribution of Landsat data products. The Landsat-5 satellite is part of an ongoing...
Upper Klamath Basin Landsat Image for October 7, 2004: Path 45 Rows 30 and 31
Daniel T. Snyder
2012, Report
This image is a mosaic of Landsat-5 images of the upper Klamath Basin. The original images were obtained from the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS). EROS is responsible for archive management and distribution of Landsat data products. The Landsat-5 satellite is part of an ongoing...
Upper Klamath Basin Landsat Image for October 16, 2004: Path 44 Row 31
Daniel T. Snyder
2012, Report
This subset of a Landsat-5 image shows part of the upper Klamath Basin. The original images were obtained from the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS). EROS is responsible for archive management and distribution of Landsat data products. The Landsat-5 satellite is part of an ongoing...
Upper Klamath Basin Landsat Image for November 8, 2004: Path 45 Rows 30 and 31
Daniel T. Snyder
2012, Report
This image is a mosaic of Landsat-5 images of the upper Klamath Basin. The original images were obtained from the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS). EROS is responsible for archive management and distribution of Landsat data products. The Landsat-5 satellite is part of an ongoing...
Upper Klamath Basin Landsat Image for August 19, 2006: Path 44 Row 31
Daniel T. Snyder
2012, Report
This image is a mosaic of Landsat-5 images of the upper Klamath Basin. The original images were obtained from the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS). EROS is responsible for archive management and distribution of Landsat data products. The Landsat-5 satellite is part of an ongoing...
Upper Klamath Basin Landsat Image for August 29, 2004: Path 44 Row 31
Daniel T. Snyder
2012, Report
This subset of a Landsat-5 image shows part of the upper Klamath Basin. The original images were obtained from the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS). EROS is responsible for archive management and distribution of Landsat data products. The Landsat-5 satellite is part of an ongoing...
Upper Klamath Basin Landsat Image for August 19, 2006: Path 44 Row 31
Daniel T. Snyder
2012, Report
This subset of a Landsat-5 image shows part of the upper Klamath Basin. The original images were obtained from the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS). EROS is responsible for archive management and distribution of Landsat data products. The Landsat-5 satellite is part of an ongoing...
Upper Klamath Basin Landsat Image for September 20, 2006: Path 44 Row 31
Daniel T. Snyder
2012, Report
This subset of a Landsat-5 image shows part of the upper Klamath Basin. The original images were obtained from the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS). EROS is responsible for archive management and distribution of Landsat data products. The Landsat-5 satellite is part of an ongoing...
Upper Klamath Basin Landsat Image for July 28, 2004: Path 44 Row 31
Daniel T. Snyder
2012, Report
This subset of a Landsat-5 image shows part of the upper Klamath Basin. The original images were obtained from the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS). EROS is responsible for archive management and distribution of Landsat data products. The Landsat-5 satellite is part of an ongoing...
Upper Klamath Basin Landsat Image for August 4, 2004: Path 45 Rows 30 and 31
Daniel T. Snyder
2012, Report
This image is a mosaic of Landsat-5 images of the upper Klamath Basin. The original images were obtained from the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS). EROS is responsible for archive management and distribution of Landsat data products. The Landsat-5 satellite is part of an ongoing...
Upper Klamath Basin Landsat Image for May 30, 2006: Path 45 Rows 30 and 31
Daniel T. Snyder
2012, Report
This image is a mosaic of Landsat-7 images of the upper Klamath Basin. The original images were obtained from the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS). EROS is responsible for archive management and distribution of Landsat data products. The Landsat-7 satellite is part of an ongoing...
Upper Klamath Basin Landsat Image for July 18, 2006: Path 44 Row 31
Daniel T. Snyder
2012, Report
This subset of a Landsat-5 image shows part of the upper Klamath Basin. The original images were obtained from the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS). EROS is responsible for archive management and distribution of Landsat data products. The Landsat-5 satellite is part of an ongoing...
Design and implementation of the next generation Landsat satellite communications system
Grant R. Mah, Michael O'Brien, Howard Garon, Claire Mott, Alan Ames, Ken Dearth
2012, Conference Paper, Proceedings from the International Telemetering Conference
The next generation Landsat satellite, Landsat 8 (L8), also known as the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM), uses a highly spectrally efficient modulation and data formatting approach to provide large amounts of downlink (D/L) bandwidth in a limited X-Band spectrum allocation. In addition to purely data throughput and bandwidth considerations,...
Upper Klamath Basin Landsat Image for September 21, 2004: Path 45 Rows 30 and 31
Daniel T. Snyder
2012, Report
This image is a mosaic of Landsat-5 images of the upper Klamath Basin. The original images were obtained from the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS). EROS is responsible for archive management and distribution of Landsat data products. The Landsat-5 satellite is part of an ongoing...