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An automated approach for reconstructing recent forest disturbance history using dense Landsat time series stacks by Huang, Chengquan, Goward, Samuel N., Masek, Jeffrey G., Thomas, Nancy, Zhu, Zhiliang, Vogelmann, James E.

“…A highly automated algorithm called vegetation change tracker (VCT) has been developed for reconstructing recent forest disturbance history using Landsat time…”
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Carbon consequences of forest disturbance and recovery across the conterminous United States by Williams, Christopher A., Collatz, G. James, Masek, Jeffrey, Goward, Samuel N.

“…Forests of North America are thought to constitute a significant long‐term sink for atmospheric carbon. The United States Forest Service Forest Inventory and…”
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Landsat's Role in Ecological Applications of Remote Sensing by COHEN, WARREN B, GOWARD, SAMUEL N

“…Remote sensing, geographic information systems, and modeling have combined to produce a virtual explosion of growth in ecological investigations and…”
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Landsat continuity: Issues and opportunities for land cover monitoring by Wulder, Michael A., White, Joanne C., Goward, Samuel N., Masek, Jeffrey G., Irons, James R., Herold, Martin, Cohen, Warren B., Loveland, Thomas R., Woodcock, Curtis E.

“…Initiated in 1972, the Landsat program has provided a continuous record of earth observation for 35 years. The assemblage of Landsat spatial, spectral, and…”
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Use of a dark object concept and support vector machines to automate forest cover change analysis by Huang, Chengquan, Song, Kuan, Kim, Sunghee, Townshend, John R.G., Davis, Paul, Masek, Jeffrey G., Goward, Samuel N.

“…An automated method was developed for mapping forest cover change using satellite remote sensing data sets. This multi-temporal classification method consists…”
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Landsat@50 – perspective from a Landsat Program veteran by Goward, Samuel N

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David A. Landgrebe: Evolution of Digital Remote Sensing and Landsat by Goward, Samuel N., Bauer, Marvin E., Biehl, Larry L., Hall, Forrest G., Hoffer, Roger M., Richards, John A., Rocchio, Laura E. P., Salomonson, Vincent V., Williams, Darrel L.

“…David Landgrebe, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the Purdue University Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing (LARS), was a primary…”
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Modeling the height of young forests regenerating from recent disturbances in Mississippi using Landsat and ICESat data by Li, Ainong, Huang, Chengquan, Sun, Guoqing, Shi, Hua, Toney, Chris, Zhu, Zhiliang, Rollins, Matthew G., Goward, Samuel N., Masek, Jeffrey G.

“…Many forestry and earth science applications require spatially detailed forest height data sets. Among the various remote sensing technologies, lidar offers…”
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Estimation of air temperature from remotely sensed surface observations by Prihodko, Lara, Goward, Samuel N.

“…Air temperature is an important descriptor of terrestrial environmental conditions across the earth. Standard meteorological observations generally provide…”
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Free Access to Landsat Imagery by Woodcock, Curtis E., Allen, Richard, Anderson, Martha, Belward, Alan, Bindschadler, Robert, Cohen, Warren, Gao, Feng, Goward, Samuel N., Helder, Dennis, Helmer, Eileen, Nemani, Rama, Oreopoulos, Lazaros, Schott, John, Thenkabail, Prasad S., Vermote, Eric F., Vogelmann, James, Wulder, Michael A., Wynne, Randolph

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United States Forest Disturbance Trends Observed Using Landsat Time Series by Masek, Jeffrey G., Goward, Samuel N., Kennedy, Robert E., Cohen, Warren B., Moisen, Gretchen G., Schleeweis, Karen, Huang, Chengquan

“…Disturbance events strongly affect the composition, structure, and function of forest ecosystems; however, existing US land management inventories were not…”
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Development of Landsat-based annual US forest disturbance history maps (1986–2010) in support of the North American Carbon Program (NACP) by Zhao, Feng, Huang, Chengquan, Goward, Samuel N., Schleeweis, Karen, Rishmawi, Khaldoun, Lindsey, Mary A., Denning, Elaine, Keddell, Louis, Cohen, Warren B., Yang, Zhiqiang, Dungan, Jennifer L., Michaelis, Andrew

“…In Phase III of the North American Forest Dynamics (NAFD) study an automatic workflow has been developed for evaluating forest disturbance history using…”
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Validation of North American Forest Disturbance dynamics derived from Landsat time series stacks by Thomas, Nancy E., Huang, Chengquan, Goward, Samuel N., Powell, Scott, Rishmawi, Khaldoun, Schleeweis, Karen, Hinds, Adrienne

“…The North American Forest Dynamics (NAFD) study is a core project of the North American Carbon Program (NACP). The NAFD project is evaluating forest…”
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Impacts of disturbance history on forest carbon stocks and fluxes: Merging satellite disturbance mapping with forest inventory data in a carbon cycle model framework by Williams, Christopher A., Collatz, G. James, Masek, Jeffrey, Huang, Chengquan, Goward, Samuel N.

“…Forest carbon stocks and fluxes are highly dynamic following stand-clearing disturbances from severe fire and harvest and this presents a significant challenge…”
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Landsat@50 by Ojima, Dennis S, DeFries, Ruth S, Goward, Samuel N, Hansen, Andrew, Hansen, Matthew C, Loveland, Tom, Skole, David, Vogeler, Jody

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Automated masking of cloud and cloud shadow for forest change analysis using Landsat images by Huang, Chengquan, Thomas, Nancy, Goward, Samuel N., Masek, Jeffrey G., Zhu, Zhiliang, Townshend, John R. G., Vogelmann, James E.

“…Accurate masking of cloud and cloud shadow is a prerequisite for reliable mapping of land surface attributes. Cloud contamination is particularly a problem for…”
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Dynamics of national forests assessed using the Landsat record: Case studies in eastern United States by Huang, Chengquan, Goward, Samuel N., Schleeweis, Karen, Thomas, Nancy, Masek, Jeffrey G., Zhu, Zhiliang

“…The national forests (NFs) in the United States are protected areas managed for multiple purposes, and therefore are subject to both natural and anthropogenic…”
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US National Maps Attributing Forest Change: 1986–2010 by Karen G. Schleeweis, Gretchen G. Moisen, Todd A. Schroeder, Chris Toney, Elizabeth A. Freeman, Samuel N. Goward, Chengquan Huang, Jennifer L. Dungan

“…National monitoring of forestlands and the processes causing canopy cover loss, be they abrupt or gradual, partial or stand clearing, temporary (disturbance)…”
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Transient Effects of Climate on Vegetation Dynamics: Satellite Observations by Goward, Samuel N., Prince, Stephen D.

“…Ecological modellers are preparing to address how the biosphere may respond to decadal- to century-scale changes in the Earth's environmental system. This…”
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Ecological remote sensing at OTTER: satellite macroscale observations by Goward, Samuel N., Waring, Richard H., Dye, Dennis G., Yang, Jingli

“…Coarse, global-scale, satellite remotely sensed observations are compared with ground measurements collected during the OTTER study. The objective was…”
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