A simple and effective method for filling gaps in Landsat ETM+ SLC-off images
Jin Chen, Xiaolin Zhu, James E. Vogelmann, Feng Gao, Suming Jin
2011, Remote Sensing of Environment (115) 1053-1064
The scan-line corrector (SLC) of the Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) sensor failed in 2003, resulting in about 22% of the pixels per scene not being scanned. The SLC failure has seriously limited the scientific applications of ETM+ data. While there have been a number of methods developed...
Integration of Palmer Drought Severity Index and remote sensing data to simulate wetland water surface from 1910 to 2009 in Cottonwood Lake area, North Dakota
Shengli Huang, Devendra Dahal, Claudia Young, Gyanesh Chander, Shuguang Liu
2011, Remote Sensing of Environment (115) 3377-3389
Spatiotemporal variations of wetland water in the Prairie Pothole Region are controlled by many factors; two of them are temperature and precipitation that form the basis of the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI). Taking the 196 km2 Cottonwood Lake area in North Dakota as our pilot study site, we integrated PDSI, Landsat...
Continuous fields of land cover for the conterminous United States using Landsat data: First results from the Web-Enabled Landsat Data (WELD) project
M.C. Hansen, Alexey Egorov, David P. Roy, P. Potapov, J. Ju, S. Turubanova, I. Kommareddy, Thomas R. Loveland
2011, Remote Sensing Letters (2) 279-288
Vegetation Continuous Field (VCF) layers of 30 m percent tree cover, bare ground, other vegetation and probability of water were derived for the conterminous United States (CONUS) using Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) data sets from the Web-Enabled Landsat Data (WELD) project. Turnkey approaches to land cover characterization were...
Modeling the height of young forests regenerating from recent disturbances in Mississippi using Landsat and ICESat data
Ainong Li, Chengquan Huang, Guoqing Sun, Hua Shi, Chris Toney, Zhiliang Zhu, Matthew G. Rollins, Samuel N. Goward, Jeffery G. Masek
2011, Remote Sensing of Environment (115) 1837-1849
Many forestry and earth science applications require spatially detailed forest height data sets. Among the various remote sensing technologies, lidar offers the most potential for obtaining reliable height measurement. However, existing and planned spaceborne lidar systems do not have the capability to produce spatially contiguous, fine resolution forest height maps...
Classifying the hydrologic function of prairie potholes with remote sensing and GIS
Jennifer R. Rover, C.K. Wright, Ned H. Euliss Jr., David M. Mushet, Bruce K. Wylie
2011, Wetlands (31) 319-327
A sequence of Landsat TM/ETM+ scenes capturing the substantial surface water variations exhibited by prairie pothole wetlands over a drought to deluge period were analyzed in an attempt to determine the general hydrologic function of individual wetlands (recharge, flow-through, and discharge). Multipixel objects (water bodies) were clustered according to their...
Mapping irrigated areas of Ghana using fusion of 30 m and 250 m resolution remote-sensing data
M.K. Gumma, P.S. Thenkabail, F. Hideto, A. Nelson, V. Dheeravath, D. Busia, A. Rala
2011, Remote Sensing (3) 816-835
Maps of irrigated areas are essential for Ghana's agricultural development. The goal of this research was to map irrigated agricultural areas and explain methods and protocols using remote sensing. Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper (ETM+) data and time-series Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data were used to map irrigated agricultural areas...
Expansion of urban area and wastewater irrigated rice area in Hyderabad, India
K.M. Gumma, Rooijen D. van, A. Nelson, P.S. Thenkabail, Radha V. Aakuraju, P. Amerasinghe
2011, Irrigation and Drainage Systems (25) 135-149
The goal of this study was to investigate land use changes in urban and peri-urban Hyderabad and their influence on wastewater irrigated rice using Landsat ETM + data and spectral matching techniques. The main source of irrigation water is the Musi River, which collects a large volume of wastewater and...
Mapping and monitoring Louisiana's mangroves in the aftermath of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil spill
S. Giri, J. Long, L. Tieszen
2011, Journal of Coastal Research (27) 1059-1064
Information regarding the present condition, historical status, and dynamics of mangrove forests is needed to study the impacts of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and other stressors affecting mangrove ecosystems. Such information is unavailable for Louisiana at sufficient spatial and thematic detail. We prepared mangrove forest distribution maps of...
Detecting post-fire burn severity and vegetation recovery using multitemporal remote sensing spectral indices and field-collected composite burn index data in a ponderosa pine forest
Xuexia Chen, James E. Vogelmann, Matt Rollins, Donald Ohlen, Carl H. Key, Limin Yang, Chengquan Huang, Hua Shi
2011, International Journal of Remote Sensing (32) 7905-7927
It is challenging to detect burn severity and vegetation recovery because of the relatively long time period required to capture the ecosystem characteristics. Multitemporal remote sensing data can providemultitemporal observations before, during and after a wildfire, and can improve the change detection accuracy. The goal of this study is to...
A self-trained classification technique for producing 30 m percent-water maps from Landsat data
Jennifer R. Rover, Bruce K. Wylie, Lei Ji
2010, International Journal of Remote Sensing (31) 2197-2203
Small bodies of water can be mapped with moderate-resolution satellite data using methods where water is mapped as subpixel fractions using field measurements or high-resolution images as training datasets. A new method, developed from a regression-tree technique, uses a 30 m Landsat image for training the regression tree that, in...
A procedure for radiometric recalibration of Landsat 5 TM reflective-band data
G. Chander, M.O. Haque, E. Micijevic, J. A. Barsi
2010, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (48) 556-574
From the Landsat program's inception in 1972 to the present, the Earth science user community has been benefiting from a historical record of remotely sensed data. The multispectral data from the Landsat 5 (L5) Thematic Mapper (TM) sensor provide the backbone for this extensive archive. Historically, the radiometric calibration procedure...
Remotely sensed imagery revealing the effects of hurricanes Gustav and Ike on coastal Louisiana
John A. Barras, John Brock, Robert A. Morton, Laurinda J. Travers
2010, Data Series 566
Hurricane Gustav, a category 2 storm with 170 kilometers per hour (km/h) winds, approached the Louisiana coast from the south-southeast, making landfall near Cocodrie, La., on September 1, 2008 (Beven and Kimberlain, 2009); Hurricane Ike, a category 2 storm with 175 km/h winds, approached the Texas coast from the southeast,...
Monitoring the long term stability of the IRS-P6 AWiFS sensor using the Sonoran and RVPN sites
Gyanesh Chander, Aparajithan Sampath, Amit Angal, Taeyoung Choi, Xiaoxiong Xiong
2010, Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE 7862, Earth observing missions and sensors: Development, implementation, and characterization
This paper focuses on radiometric and geometric assessment of the Indian Remote Sensing (IRS-P6) Advanced Wide Field Sensor (AWiFS) sensor using the Sonoran desert and Railroad Valley Playa, Nevada (RVPN) ground sites. Imageto- Image (I2I) accuracy and relative band-to-band (B2B) accuracy were measured. I2I accuracy of the AWiFS imagery was...
Postcard for Ride the Rockies 2010
D.R. Van Sistine
2010, General Information Product 107
2010 Ride The Rockies route on shaded-relief mosaic of USGS Landsat 7 satellite images, southwestern Colorado....
Using Landsat satellite data to support pesticide exposure assessment in California
Susan K. Maxwell, Matthew Airola, John R. Nuckols
2010, International Journal of Health Geographics (9)
Background The recent U.S. Geological Survey policy offering Landsat satellite data at no cost provides researchers new opportunities to explore relationships between environment and health. The purpose of this study was to examine the potential for using Landsat satellite data to support pesticide exposure assessment in California. Methods and Results We collected a...
Preliminary assessment of several parameters to measure and compare usefulness of the CEOS reference pseudo-invariant calibration sites
Gyanesh Chander, Amit Angal, Xiaoxiong Xiong, Dennis L. Helder, Nischal Mishra, Taeyoung Choi, Aisheng Wu
2010, Conference Paper, SPIE Proceedings Volume 7826
Test sites are central to any future quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) strategy. The Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) Working Group for Calibration and Validation (WGCV) Infrared Visible Optical Sensors (IVOS) worked with collaborators around the world to establish a core set of CEOS-endorsed, globally distributed, reference standard...
Earth as art three
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2010, General Information Product 111
For most of us, deserts, mountains, river valleys, coastlines even dry lakebeds are relatively familiar features of the Earth's terrestrial environment. For earth scientists, they are the focus of considerable scientific research. Viewed from a unique and unconventional perspective, Earth's geographic attributes can also be a surprising source of awe-inspiring...
Coastal-change and glaciological map of the Ross Island area, Antarctica
Jane G. Ferrigno, Kevin M. Foley, Charles Swithinbank, Richard S. Williams Jr.
2010, IMAP 2600-I
Reduction in the area and volume of Earth?s two polar ice sheets is intricately linked to changes in global climate and to the resulting rise in sea level. Measurement of changes in area and mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet was given a very high priority in recommendations by...
Land-cover change in the Ozark Highlands, 1973-2000
Krista A. Karstensen
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1198
Led by the Geographic Analysis and Monitoring Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in collaboration with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Land-Cover Trends Project was initiated in 1999 and aims to document the types, geographic distributions, and rates of...
Conifer health classification for Colorado, 2008
Christopher J. Cole, Suzanne M. Noble, Steven L. Blauer, Beverly A. Friesen, Stacy E. Curry, Mark A. Bauer
2010, Scientific Investigations Map 3103
Colorado has undergone substantial changes in forests due to urbanization, wildfires, insect-caused tree mortality, and other human and environmental factors. The U.S. Geological Survey Rocky Mountain Geographic Science Center evaluated and developed a methodology for applying remotely-sensed imagery for assessing conifer health in Colorado. Two classes were identified for the...
Glaciers of Asia
Vladimir M. Kotlyakov, A.M. Dyakova, V.S. Koryakin, V.I. Kravtsova, G.B. Osipova, G.M. Varnakova, V.N. Vinogradov, O.N. Vinogradov, N.M. Zverkova, O.V. Rototaeva, G.A. Nosenko, D.G. Tsvetkov, Julian A. Dowdeswell, E.K. Dowdeswell, Murray Williams, A.F. Glazovskii, Yafeng Shi, Desheng Mi, Tangdong Yao, Q. Zeng, Chaohai Liu, John E. Schroder Jr., Michael P. Bishop, Chander P. Vohra, Syed I. Hasnain, Rajesh Kumar, Safaraz Ahmad, Shresth Tayal, K Higuchi, Okitsugu Watanabe, Hiroji Fushimi, Shuhei Takenaka, Akio Nagoshi, Yutaka Ageta, Shuji Iwata, L. DeWayne Cecil, David L. Naftz, Paul F. Schuster, David D. Susong, Jaromy R. Green
Richard S. Williams Jr., Jane G. Ferrigno, editor(s)
2010, Professional Paper 1386-F
This chapter is the ninth to be released in U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1386, Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World, a series of 11 chapters. In each of the geographic area chapters, remotely sensed images, primarily from the Landsat 1, 2, and 3 series of spacecraft, are...
Operational calibration and validation of landsat data continuity mission (LDCM) sensors using the image assessment system (IAS)
Esad Micijevic, Ron Morfitt
2010, Conference Paper, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International
Systematic characterization and calibration of the Landsat sensors and the assessment of image data quality are performed using the Image Assessment System (IAS). The IAS was first introduced as an element of the Landsat 7 (L7) Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) ground segment and recently extended to Landsat 4 (L4)...
Use of EO-1 Hyperion data to calculate spectral band adjustment factors (SBAF) between the L7 ETM+ and Terra MODIS sensors
Gyanesh Chander, N. Mishra, Dennis L. Helder, David Aaron, T. Choi, A. Angal, X. Xiong
2010, Conference Paper, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 : 25 - 30 July 2010, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Different applications and technology developments in Earth observations necessarily require different spectral coverage. Thus, even for the spectral bands designed to look at the same region of the electromagnetic spectrum, the relative spectral responses (RSR) of different sensors may be different. In this study, spectral band adjustment factors (SBAF) are...
The use of the Sonoran Desert as a pseudo-invariant site for optical sensor cross-calibration and long-term stability monitoring
A. Angal, Gyanesh Chander, Taeyoung Choi, Aisheng Wu, Xiaoxiong Xiong
2010, Conference Paper, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International
The Sonoran Desert is a large, flat, pseudo-invariant site near the United States-Mexico border. It is one of the largest and hottest deserts in North America, with an area of 311,000 square km. This site is particularly suitable for calibration purposes because of its high spatial and spectral uniformity and...
A comparison of multi-spectral, multi-angular, and multi-temporal remote sensing datasets for fractional shrub canopy mapping in Arctic Alaska
David J. Selkowitz
2010, Remote Sensing of Environment (114) 1338-1352
Shrub cover appears to be increasing across many areas of the Arctic tundra biome, and increasing shrub cover in the Arctic has the potential to significantly impact global carbon budgets and the global climate system. For most of the Arctic, however, there is...
