Search Results - "Masek, G"

The Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 surface reflectance data set by Claverie, Martin, Ju, Junchang, Masek, Jeffrey G., Dungan, Jennifer L., Vermote, Eric F., Roger, Jean-Claude, Skakun, Sergii V., Justice, Christopher

“…The Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) project is a NASA initiative aiming to produce a Virtual Constellation (VC) of surface reflectance (SR) data…”
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An enhanced spatial and temporal adaptive reflectance fusion model for complex heterogeneous regions by Zhu, Xiaolin, Chen, Jin, Gao, Feng, Chen, Xuehong, Masek, Jeffrey G.

“…Due to technical and budget limitations, remote sensing instruments trade spatial resolution and swath width. As a result not one sensor provides both high…”
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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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The global Landsat archive: Status, consolidation, and direction by Wulder, Michael A., White, Joanne C., Loveland, Thomas R., Woodcock, Curtis E., Belward, Alan S., Cohen, Warren B., Fosnight, Eugene A., Shaw, Jerad, Masek, Jeffrey G., Roy, David P.

“…New and previously unimaginable Landsat applications have been fostered by a policy change in 2008 that made analysis-ready Landsat data free and open access…”
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Forest disturbance across the conterminous United States from 1985–2012: The emerging dominance of forest decline by Cohen, Warren B., Yang, Zhiqiang, Stehman, Stephen V., Schroeder, Todd A., Bell, David M., Masek, Jeffrey G., Huang, Chengquan, Meigs, Garrett W.

“…•We characterized annual rates of forest disturbance between 1985 and 2012.•Landsat time series were visually interpreted, with support of ancillary data.•A…”
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A new data fusion model for high spatial- and temporal-resolution mapping of forest disturbance based on Landsat and MODIS by Hilker, Thomas, Wulder, Michael A., Coops, Nicholas C., Linke, Julia, McDermid, Greg, Masek, Jeffrey G., Gao, Feng, White, Joanne C.

“…Investigating the temporal and spatial pattern of landscape disturbances is an important requirement for modeling ecosystem characteristics, including…”
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Disturbance and the carbon balance of US forests: A quantitative review of impacts from harvests, fires, insects, and droughts by Williams, Christopher A., Gu, Huan, MacLean, Richard, Masek, Jeffrey G., Collatz, G. James

“…Disturbances are a major determinant of forest carbon stocks and uptake. They generally reduce land carbon stocks but also initiate a regrowth legacy that…”
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Assessment of the NASA–USGS Global Land Survey (GLS) datasets by Gutman, Garik, Huang, Chengquan, Chander, Gyanesh, Noojipady, Praveen, Masek, Jeffrey G.

“…The Global Land Survey (GLS) datasets are a collection of orthorectified, cloud-minimized Landsat-type satellite images, providing near complete coverage of…”
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Virtual constellations for global terrestrial monitoring by Wulder, Michael A., Hilker, Thomas, White, Joanne C., Coops, Nicholas C., Masek, Jeffrey G., Pflugmacher, Dirk, Crevier, Yves

“…Free and open access to satellite imagery and value-added data products have revolutionized the role of remote sensing in Earth system science. Nonetheless,…”
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Detecting Early Warning Signals of Tree Mortality in Boreal North America Using Multiscale Satellite Data by Rogers, Brendan M., Solvik, Kylen, Hogg, Edward, Ju, Junchang, Masek, Jeffrey, Michaelian, Michael, Berner, Logan T., Goetz, Scott J.

“…Increasing tree mortality from global change drivers such as drought and biotic infestations is a widespread phenomenon, including in the boreal zone where…”
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North American forest disturbance mapped from a decadal Landsat record by Masek, Jeffrey G., Huang, Chengquan, Wolfe, Robert, Cohen, Warren, Hall, Forrest, Kutler, Jonathan, Nelson, Peder

“…Forest disturbance and recovery are critical ecosystem processes, but the spatial pattern of disturbance has never been mapped across North America. The LEDAPS…”
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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 In Situ and Airborne Multiangle Data to Assess MODIS- and Landsat-Based Estimates of Directional Reflectance and Albedo by Román, Miguel O, Gatebe, Charles K, Shuai, Yanmin, Wang, Zhuosen, Gao, Feng, Masek, Jeffrey G, He, Tao, Liang, Shunlin, Schaaf, Crystal B

“…The quantification of uncertainty in satellite-derived global surface albedo products is a critical aspect in producing complete, physically consistent, 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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Satellite-based evidence for shrub and graminoid tundra expansion in northern Quebec from 1986 to 2010 by McManus, kelly M., Morton, Douglas C., Masek, Jeffrey G., Wang, Dongdong, Sexton, Joseph O., Nagol, Jyoteshwar R., Ropars, Pascale, Boudreau, Stéphane

“…Global vegetation models predict rapid poleward migration of tundra and boreal forest vegetation in response to climate warming. Local plot and air‐photo…”
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NASA Goddard’s LiDAR, Hyperspectral and Thermal (G-LiHT) Airborne Imager by Cook, Bruce, Corp, Lawrence, Nelson, Ross, Middleton, Elizabeth, Morton, Douglas, McCorkel, Joel, Masek, Jeffrey, Ranson, Kenneth, Ly, Vuong, Montesano, Paul

“…The combination of LiDAR and optical remotely sensed data provides unique information about ecosystem structure and function. Here, we describe the…”
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Generation of dense time series synthetic Landsat data through data blending with MODIS using a spatial and temporal adaptive reflectance fusion model by Hilker, Thomas, Wulder, Michael A., Coops, Nicholas C., Seitz, Nicole, White, Joanne C., Gao, Feng, Masek, Jeffrey G., Stenhouse, Gordon

“…Landsat imagery with a 30 m spatial resolution is well suited for characterizing landscape-level forest structure and dynamics. While Landsat images have…”
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Evaluation of SWIR Crop Residue Bands for the Landsat Next Mission by Hively, Wells Dean, Lamb, Brian T., Daughtry, Craig S. T., Serbin, Guy, Dennison, Philip, Kokaly, Raymond F., Wu, Zhuoting

“…This research reports the findings of a Landsat Next expert review panel that evaluated the use of narrow shortwave infrared (SWIR) reflectance bands to…”
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Continuity of Landsat observations: Short term considerations by Wulder, Michael A., White, Joanne C., Masek, Jeffrey G., Dwyer, John, Roy, David P.

“…As of writing in mid-2010, both Landsat-5 and -7 continue to function, with sufficient fuel to enable data collection until the launch of the Landsat Data…”
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Optimizing Landsat Next Shortwave Infrared Bands for Crop Residue Characterization by Lamb, Brian T., Dennison, Philip E., Hively, W. Dean, Kokaly, Raymond F., Serbin, Guy, Wu, Zhuoting, Dabney, Philip W., Masek, Jeffrey G., Campbell, Michael, Daughtry, Craig S. T.

“…This study focused on optimizing the placement of shortwave infrared (SWIR) bands for pixel-level estimation of fractional crop residue cover (fR) for the…”
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