Maps of Quadrangles 3764 and 3664, Jalajin (117), Kham-Ab (118), Char Shangho (123), and Sheberghan (124) Quadrangles, Afghanistan
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2007, Open-File Report 2005-1092
By selecting one of the four series options shown below, namely, -A, -B, -C, and -D for the geologic, topographic, Landsat natural-color, and Landsat false-color maps, respectively, the user will be taken to that map....
Maps of Quadrangles 3772, 3774, 3672, and 3674, Gaz-Khan (313), Sarhad (314), Kol-I-Chaqmaqtin (315), Khandud (319), Deh-Ghulaman (320), and Ertfah (321) Quadrangles, Afghanistan
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2007, Open-File Report 2005-1097
By selecting one of the four series options shown below, namely, -A, -B, -C, and -D for the geologic, topographic, Landsat natural-color, and Landsat false-color maps, respectively, the user will be taken to that map....
Maps of Quadrangle 3670, Jarm-Keshem (223) and Zebak (224) Quadrangles, Afghanistan
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2007, Open-File Report 2005-1096
By selecting one of the four series options shown below, namely, -A, -B, -C, and -D for the geologic, topographic, Landsat natural-color, and Landsat false-color maps, respectively, the user will be taken to that map....
Maps of Quadrangles 3560, 3562, and 3662, Sir Band (402), Khawja-Jir (403), Bala-Murghab (404), and Darah-I-Shor-I-Karamandi (122) Quadrangles, Afghanistan
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2007, Open-File Report 2005-1098
By selecting one of the four series options shown below, namely, -A, -B, -C, and -D for the geologic, topographic, Landsat natural-color, and Landsat false-color maps, respectively, the user will be taken to that map....
Predicting water quality by relating secchi-disk transparency and chlorophyll a measurements to Landsat satellite imagery for Michigan inland lakes, 2001-2006
L. M. Fuller, R. J. Minnerick
2007, Fact Sheet 2007-3022
The State of Michigan has more than 11,000 inland lakes; approximately 3,500 of these lakes are greater than 25 acres. The USGS, in cooperation with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), has been monitoring the quality of inland lakes in Michigan through the Lake Water Quality Assessment monitoring program....
Protocol for Landsat-Based Monitoring of Landscape Dynamics at North Coast and Cascades Network Parks
Robert E. Kennedy, Warren B. Cohen, Alan A. Kirschbaum, Erik Haunreiter
2007, Techniques and Methods 2-G1
Background and Objectives As part of the National Park Service's larger goal of developing long-term monitoring programs in response to the Natural Resource Challenge of 2000, the parks of the North Coast and Cascades Network (NCCN) have determined that monitoring of landscape dynamics is necessary to track ecosystem health (Weber and...
Satellite Images and Aerial Photographs of the Effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on Coastal Louisiana
John A. Barras
2007, Data Series 281
Introduction Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the eastern coastline of Louisiana on August 29, 2005; Hurricane Rita made landfall on the western coastline of Louisiana on September 24, 2005. Comparison of Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) satellite imagery acquired before and after the landfalls of Katrina and Rita and classified to identify...
Using a remote sensing/GIS model to predict southwestern Willow Flycatcher breeding habitat along the Rio Grande, New Mexico
James R. Hatten, Mark K. Sogge
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1207
Introduction The Southwestern Willow Flycatcher (Empidonax traillii extimus; hereafter SWFL) is a federally endangered bird (USFWS 1995) that breeds in riparian areas in portions of New Mexico, Arizona, southwestern Colorado, extreme southern Utah and Nevada, and southern California (USFWS 2002). Across this range, it uses a variety of plant species as...
Ride the Rockies Postcard
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2007, General Information Product 51
2007 Ride The Rockies route on shaded-relief mosaic of USGS Landsat 7 satellite images, northwestern Colorado. To download other USGS materials related to Ride The Rockies, go to http://www.cr.usgs.gov/rtr/index.htm...
Irrigated Acreage Within the Basin and Range Carbonate-Rock Aquifer System, White Pine County, Nevada, and Adjacent Areas in Nevada and Utah
Toby L. Welborn, Michael T. Moreo
2007, Data Series 273
Accurate delineations of irrigated acreage are needed for the development of water-use estimates and in determining water-budget calculations for the Basin and Range carbonate-rock aquifer system (BARCAS) study. Irrigated acreage is estimated routinely for only a few basins in the study area. Satellite imagery from the Landsat Thematic Mapper and...
Scan line correction : enabling broader use of Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) data
R.M. Kurtz
2007, Earth Imaging Journal (4) 32-36
No abstract available....
Color shaded-relief and surface-classification maps of the Fish Creek Area, Harrison Bay Quadrangle, Northern Alaska
John L. Mars, Christopher P. Garrity, David W. Houseknecht, Lee Amoroso, Donald C. Meares
2007, Scientific Investigations Map 2948
The northeastern part of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA) has become an area of active petroleum exploration during the past five years. Recent leasing and exploration drilling in the NPRA requires the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to manage and monitor a variety of surface activities that...
Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2007, Fact Sheet 2007-3016
Description Fact sheet introduces the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA) with images from a section of the mosaic over McMurdo Station, descriptions of the four versions of LIMA, where to access and download LIMA, and a brief explanation of the Antarctic Web portal....
Land-Cover Trends of the Sierra Nevada Ecoregion, 1973-2000
Christian G. Raumann, Christopher E. Soulard
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5011
The U.S. Geological Survey has developed and is implementing the Land Cover Trends project to estimate and describe the temporal and spatial distribution and variability of contemporary land-use and land-cover change in the United States. As part of the Land Cover Trends project, the purpose of this study was to...
Mapping Phyllic and Argillic-Altered Rocks in Southeastern Afghanistan using Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) Data
John L. Mars, Lawrence C. Rowan
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1006
Introduction: ASTER data and logical operators were successfully used to map phyllic and argillic-altered rocks in the southeastern part of Afghanistan. Hyperion data were used to correct ASTER band 5 and ASTER data were georegistered to orthorectified Landsat TM data. Logical operator algorithms produced argillic and phyllic byte ASTER images...
Landsat ETM+ False-Color Image Mosaics of Afghanistan
Philip A. Davis
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1029
In 2005, the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency contracted with the U.S. Geological Survey to perform assessments of the natural resources within Afghanistan. The assessments concentrate on the resources that are related to the economic development of that country. Therefore, assessments were initiated...
A multi-scale segmentation approach to filling gaps in Landsat ETM+ SLC-off images
S.K. Maxwell, Gail L. Schmidt, James C. Storey
2007, International Journal of Remote Sensing (28) 5339-5356
On 31 May 2003, the Landsat Enhanced Thematic Plus (ETM+) Scan Line Corrector (SLC) failed, causing the scanning pattern to exhibit wedge-shaped scan-to-scan gaps. We developed a method that uses coincident spectral data to fill the image gaps. This method uses a multi-scale segment model, derived from a previous Landsat...
Quantitative remote sensing study indicates doubling of coastal erosion rate in past 50 yr along a segment of the Arctic coast of Alaska
J.C. Mars, D.W. Houseknecht
2007, Geology (35) 583-586
A new quantitative coastal land gained-and-lost method uses image analysis of topographic maps and Landsat thematic mapper short-wave infrared data to document accelerated coastal land loss and thermokarst lake expansion and drainage. The data span 1955-2005 along the Beaufort Sea coast north of Teshekpuk Lake in the National Petroleum Reserve...
Mapping moderate-scale land-cover over very large geographic areas within a collaborative framework: A case study of the Southwest Regional Gap Analysis Project (SWReGAP)
J. Lowry, R.D. Ramsey, K. Thomas, D. Schrupp, T. Sajwaj, J. Kirby, E. Waller, S. Schrader, S. Falzarano, L. Langs, G. Manis, C. Wallace, K. Schulz, P. Comer, K. Pohs, W. Rieth, C. Velasquez, B. Wolk, W. Kepner, K. Boykin, L. O'Brien, D. Bradford, B. Thompson, J. Prior-Magee
2007, Remote Sensing of Environment (108) 59-73
Land-cover mapping efforts within the USGS Gap Analysis Program have traditionally been state-centered; each state having the responsibility of implementing a project design for the geographic area within their state boundaries. The Southwest Regional Gap Analysis Project (SWReGAP) was the first formal GAP project designed at a regional, multi-state scale....
Postfire soil burn severity mapping with hyperspectral image unmixing
P.R. Robichaud, S.A. Lewis, D.Y.M. Laes, A.T. Hudak, R.F. Kokaly, J.A. Zamudio
2007, Remote Sensing of Environment (108) 467-480
Burn severity is mapped after wildfires to evaluate immediate and long-term fire effects on the landscape. Remotely sensed hyperspectral imagery has the potential to provide important information about fine-scale ground cover components that are indicative of burn severity after large wildland fires. Airborne hyperspectral imagery and ground data were collected...
Spatial patterns of large natural fires in Sierra Nevada wilderness areas
B.M. Collins, M. Kelly, J. W. van Wagtendonk, S.L. Stephens
2007, Landscape Ecology (22) 545-557
The effects of fire on vegetation vary based on the properties and amount of existing biomass (or fuel) in a forest stand, weather conditions, and topography. Identifying controls over the spatial patterning of fire-induced vegetation change, or fire severity, is critical in understanding fire as a landscape scale process. We...
The landsat image mosaic of the Antarctica Web Portal
C.J. Rusanowski
2007, Data Science Journal (6) S333-S352
People believe what they can see. The Poles exist as a frozen dream to most people. The International Polar Year wants to break the ice (so to speak), open up the Poles to the general public, support current polar research, and encourage new research projects. The IPY officially begins in March,...
Improved wetland remote sensing in Yellowstone National Park using classification trees to combine TM imagery and ancillary environmental data
C. Wright, Alisa L. Gallant
2007, Remote Sensing of Environment (107) 582-605
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service uses the term palustrine wetland to describe vegetated wetlands traditionally identified as marsh, bog, fen, swamp, or wet meadow. Landsat TM imagery was combined with image texture and ancillary environmental data to model probabilities of palustrine wetland occurrence in Yellowstone National Park using classification...
Comparison of outgassing models for the Landsat thematic mapper sensors
E. Micijevic, G. Chander
2007, Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
The Thematic Mapper (TM) is a multi-spectral electro-optical sensor featured onboard both the Landsat 4 (L4) and Landsat 5 (L5) satellites. TM sensors have seven spectral bands with center wavelengths of approximately 0.49, 0.56, 0.66, 0.83, 1.65, 11.5 and 2.21 μm, respectively. The visible near-infrared (VNIR) bands are located on...
A land-cover map for South and Southeast Asia derived from SPOT-VEGETATION data
H.-J. Stibig, A.S. Belward, P.S. Roy, U. Rosalina-Wasrin, S. Agrawal, P.K. Joshi, Hildanus, R. Beuchle, S. Fritz, S. Mubareka, C. Giri
2007, Journal of Biogeography (34) 625-637
Aim Our aim was to produce a uniform ‘regional’ land-cover map of South and Southeast Asia based on ‘sub-regional’ mapping results generated in the context of the Global Land Cover 2000 project.Location The ‘region’ of tropical and sub-tropical South and Southeast Asia stretches from the Himalayas and the southern border...