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Landsat Science Team Publications and Presentations

As of Oct 1, 2008


PUBLICATIONS

Allen, R.G., J.M.H. Hendrickx, D. Toll, M. Anderson, W. Kustas, W, and J. Kleissl. 2008. From high overhead: ET measurement via remote sensing. Southwest Hydrology 7: 30-32.

Anderson, M.C. and W.P. Kustas. 2008. Thermal remote sensing of drought and evaporation. EOS Transactions 89: 233-234.

Coops, N.C., S. Gillanders, N. Goodwin, and M.A. Wulder. In press. Application of Landsat satellite imagery to monitor land cover changes at the Athabasca oil sands, Alberta, Canada. The Canadian Geographer.

Duveiller, G., P. Defourny, B. Desclee, and P. Mayaux. 2008. Deforestation in Central Africa: Estimates at regional, national and landscape levels by advanced processing of systematically-distributed Landsat extracts. Remote Sensing of Environment, 112: 1969-1981.

Gao, F. and J. Masek. 2008. Normalizing ASTER data using MODIS products for land cover classification. International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) 2008 Proceeding, July 3-11, 2008, Beijing, China.

Gao, F., J. Masek, M. Schwaller and Hall. F. 2006. On the Blending of the Landsat and MODIS Surface Reflectance: Predict Daily Landsat Surface Reflectance. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 44: 2207-2218.

Goodwin, Nicholas R., Nicholas C. Coops, Michael A. Wulder, Steve Gillanders, Todd A. Schroeder, Trisalyn Nelson. 2008. Estimation of insect infestation dynamics using a temporal sequence of Landsat data. Remote Sensing of Environment 112:3680-3689.

Goward, S.N., T.A. Arvidson, D.L. Williams, and J. Irons. 2008. The future of Landsat-class high resolution optical multispectral remote sensing. In B. Ramachandran, C. Justice & M. Abrams (Eds.), Land Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change: NASA Earth Observing System and the Science of ASTER and MODIS. New York: Springer.

Goward, S.N., J.G. Masek, W. Cohen, G. Moisen, G.J. Collatz, S. Healey, R.A. Houghton, C. Huang, R. Kennedy, B. Law, S. Powell, D. Turner, and M.A. Wulder. 2008. Forest disturbance and North American carbon flux. . EOS Transactions 89: 105-106.

Goward, S.N., D.L. Williams, T.A. Arvidson, J Irons, and R.R. Irish. In press. Moderate Spatial Resolution Optical Sensors. In T. Warner, D.N. Nellis & G. Foody (Eds.), Handbook of Remote Sensing. London, U.K.

Helder, Dennis L., B.L. Markham, K.J. Thome, J. Barsi, G. Chander, and R. Malla. In press. Updated radiometric calibration for the Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper reflective bands. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

Helmer, E.H. and B. Ruefenacht. 2007. A comparison of radiometric normalization methods when filling cloud gaps in Landsat imagery. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 33: 325-340.

Helmer, E.H., T.J. Brandeis, A.E. Lugo, and T. Kennaway. 2008. Factors influencing spatial pattern in tropical forest clearance and stand age: implications for carbon storage and species diversity. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 113: G02S04

Herold, M., C.E. Woodcock, T.R. Loveland, J. Townshend, M. Brady, C. Steemans, and C.C. Schmullius. In press. Land cover observations as part of a Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS): progress, activities, and prospects. IEEE Transactions in Geosciences.

Kennaway, T. and E.H. Helmer. 2007. The forest types and ages cleared for land development in Puerto Rico. GIScience and Remote Sensing 44: 356-382.

Kennedy, R.E., W.B. Cohen, A.A. Kirschbaum, and E. Haunreiter. 2007. Protocol for Landsat-based monitoring of landscape dynamics at North Coast and Cascades Network Parks: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods 2-G1, 126 p.

Kennedy, R.E., W.B. Cohen, and T.A. Schroeder. 2007. Trajectory-based change detection for automated characterization of forest disturbance dynamics. Remote Sensing of Environment 110: 370-386.

Koren, I., L. Oreopoulos, G. Feingold, L.A. Remer, and O. Altaratz. 2008. How small is a small cloud? Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 8: 6379-6407.

Liu, W., C. Song, T.A. Schroeder, and W.B. Cohen. In press. Predicting forest successional stages with multitemporal Landsat imagery and Forest Inventory and Analysis data. International Journal of Remote Sensing.

Loveland, T.R. and J.R. Irons. 2007. Landsat Science Team meeting summary. The Earth Observer 19: 10-14.

Loveland, T.R., M.A. Bouchard, J.R. Irons, and C.E. Woodcock. 2008. Landsat Science Team Meeting Summary. The Earth Observer 20: 23-27

Loveland, T.R., M.A.Cochrane, and G.M. Henebry. 2008. Landsat still contributing to environmental research. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23: 162-163.

Loveland, T.R., J.R. Irons, and C.E. Woodcock. 2007. Landsat Science Team meeting summary. The Earth Observer 19: 36-41.

Loveland, T.R., J.R. Irons, and C.E. Woodcock. 2008. Landsat Science Team meeting summary. The Earth Observer 20: 35-40.

Masahiro, T., R.G. Allen, and R. Trezza. 2008. At-Surface Reflectance and Albedo from Satellite for Operational Calculation of Land Surface Energy Balance. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 13: 51-63.

Masek, J.G., C. Huang, W.B. Cohen, J. Kutler, F.G. Hall, R. Wolfe, and P. Nelson. In press. North American forest disturbance mapped from a decadal Landsat record: methodology and initial results. Remote Sensing of Environment.

Mitchell, S.W., T.K. Remmel, F. Csillag, and M.A. Wulder. 2008. Distance to second cluster as a measure of classification confidence. Remote Sensing of Environment 112: 2615-2626.

Mollicone D., F. Achard, S. Federici, H.D. Eva, G. Grassi, A. Belward, F. Raes, G. Seufert, H.-J. Stibig, G. Matteucci and E.-D. Schulze. 2007. An incentive mechanism for reducing emissions from conversion of intact and non-intact forests. Climatic Change 83: 477–493.

Powell, S.L. W.B. Cohen, Z. Yang, J. Pierce, and M. Alberti. 2008. Quantification of impervious surface in the Snohomish Water Resources Inventory Area of Western Washington from 1972-2006. Remote Sensing of Environment 112:1895-1908.

Powell, S.L., D. Pflugmacher, A.A. Kirschbaum, Y. Kim, and W.B. Cohen. 2007. Moderate resolution remote sensing alternatives: a review of Landsat-like sensors and their applications. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 1:012506.

Ryan, B. J., and B.K. Quirk. 2007. Landsat Program on Track for 2011: Long-Term Data Continuity. ACSM Bulletin 230: 10-13.

Schroeder, T.A., A. Gray, M.E. Harmon, D.O. Wallin, and W.B. Cohen. In press. Estimating live forest carbon dynamics with a Landsat-based curve fitting approach. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing.

Schroeder, T.A., W.B. Cohen, and Z. Yang. 2007. Patterns of forest regrowth following clearcutting in western Oregon as determined from a Landsat time-series. Forest Ecology and Management 243: 259-273.

Thenkabail, P.S., C.M. Biradar. P. Noojipady. X.L. Cai, V. Dheeravath, Y.J. Li, M. Velpuri, M. Gumma, and S. Pandey. 2007. Sub-pixel irrigated area calculation methods. Sensors Journal. In A. Melesse (Ed.), Special issue: Remote Sensing of Natural Resources and the Environment in Remote Sensing Sensors 7: 2519-2538.

Thenkabail, P.S., C.M. Biradar, H. Turral, P. Noojipady, Y.J. Li, J. Vithanage, V. Dheeravath, M. Velpuri, M. Schull, X.L. Cai, and R. Dutta. 2006. An Irrigated Area Map of the World (1999) derived from Remote Sensing. Research Report # 105. International Water Management Institute. Pp. 74.

Thenkabail, P.S., P..Gangadhara Rao, T. Biggs, M. Krishna, and H. Turral. 2007. Spectral Matching Techniques to Determine Historical Land use/Land cover (LULC) and Irrigated Areas using Time-series AVHRR Pathfinder Datasets in the Krishna River Basin, India. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing. 73: 1029-1040.

Turner, D.P., W.D. Ritts, B.E. Law, W.B. Cohen, Z. Yang, T. Hudiburg, J.L. Campbell, and M. Duane. 2007. Scaling net ecosystem production and net biome production over a heterogeneous region in the western United States. Biogeosciences 4: 597–612.

White, J.C., N.C. Coops, T. Hilker, M.A. Wulder, and A.L. Carroll. 2007. Detecting mountain pine beetle red attack damage with EO-1 Hyperion moisture indices, International Journal of Remote Sensing 28: 2111-2121.

Woodcock, C.E. and the Landsat Science Team. 2008. Free access to Landsat imagery. Science 320: 1011.

Wulder, M.A., J.C. White, R.A. Fournier, J.E. Luther, and S. Magnussen. 2008. Spatially explicit large area biomass estimation: Three approaches using forest inventory and remotely sensed imagery in a GIS. Sensors 8: 529-560.

Wulder, M.A., S. Magnussen, D. Harding, N.C. Coops, P. Boudewyn, and D. Seemann. 2008. Stability of surface LIDAR height estimates on a point and polygon basis. Journal of Forest Planning 13: 279-286.

Wulder, M.A., Stephanie M. Ortlepp, Joanne C. White, and Susan Maxwell. 2008. Evaluation of Landsat-7 SLC-off image products for forest change detection. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. Vol. 34: 93-99.

Wulder, M.A., T. Han, J.C. White, C.R. Butson, and R.J. Hall. 2007. An approach for edge matching large-area satellite image classifications. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 33: 266-277.

Wulder, M.A., T.A. Nelson, and D. Seemann. 2007. Using spatial pattern to quantify relationship between samples, surroundings, and populations, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 131: 221-230.

Wulder, M.A., J.C. White, S.N. Goward, J.G. Masek, J.R. Irons, M. Herold. W.B. Cohen, T.R. Loveland, and C.E. Woodcock. 2008. Landsat continuity: issues and opportunities for land cover monitoring. Remote Sensing of Environment 112: 955-969.



PRESENTATIONS

AGU- Dec 10-14 2007, San Francisco CA

Gao, F. and J.Masek. 2007. Retrieving Moderate Resolution Biophysical Parameters by Fusing Landsat-like Data and MODIS Land Products, AGU 2007 Fall meeting, 10-14 December 2007, San Francisco, CA.



Other 2007

Gillanders, S.N., N.C. Coops, M.A. Wulder, T. Nelson, and N.R. Goodwin. 2007. Multi-date landscape pattern analysis for characterizing forest disturbance and recovery related to mountain pine beetle infestation, Canadian Remote Sensing Society and American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Joint Symposium, October 28 to November 1, 2007, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada,.

Helmer, E.H., T.J. Brandeis, J. Wunderle, C. Kwit, M.A. Lefsky, B. Ruefenacht and T. Ruzycki. 2007. Monitoring tropical forests with cloud-free Landsat image mosaics and an update on the Landsat Data Continuity Mission. Regional Workshop on Deforestation Dynamics in Central America and the Caribbean, organized by the European Commission Joint Research Center TREES Project and the Caribbean Economic Community Climate Change Centre, January 25-27, 2007, Belize City, Belize.

Thenkabail, Prasad. 2007. Standardized ground truth data collection approaches for the detailed irrigated area mapping of China at 30m spatial resolution. GIAM Training Workshop, Beijing, China

Thenkabail, Prasad. 2007 Global irrigated area mapping (GIAM) workshop for China. The International Water management Institute (IWMI) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAAS) workshop on GIAM, May 23, 2007. Beijing, China.

Thenkabail, Prasad. 2007. Global irrigated area mapping (GIAM) workshop for India (GIAM India) 2007. The International Water management Institute (IWMI) and the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) workshop on GIAM, May 23, 2007, New Delhi, India

Thenkabail, Prasad. 2007. Global irrigated area mapping (GIAM) at various scales using remote sensing: methods and results. Invited speaker, Boston University.

Thenkabail, Prasad. 2007. Global irrigated area mapping. Workshop on Agriculture, Irrigation, and Hydrology at Global Scale. Invited speaker, University of New Hamphshire

Thenkabail, Prasad. 2007. Global irrigated area mapping (GIAM) at various scales using remote sensing: methods and results. Invited speaker, NASA Ames

Vogelmann, J. 2007. Detection of Gradual Landscape Changes using Remote Sensing Data. Invited seminar, South Dakota State University, November 2007.

Wulder, M.A. 2007. Boreal forest, Canada update. GOFC-GOLD Land Cover Implementation Team Meeting , Oct 24-26, 2007, University of Boston, Boston, MA, USA.

Wulder, M.A. 2007. Meeting forest information needs in Canada: National, regional, and local. April 27, 2007, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA.

Wulder, M.A. Multi-resolution examples, Mountain pine beetle focus. March 26, 2007. South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota.

Wulder, M.A., Hansen, M.C. 2007. Landsat Continuity and Mid-Decadal Survey. GOFC-GOLD Land Cover Implementation Team Meeting, , Oct 24-26, 2007, University of Boston, Boston, MA, USA.

Wulder, M.A., Herold, M. 2007. Standards for Essential Climate Variables (ECV) - Background and status for land cover. GOFC-GOLD Land Cover Implementation Team Meeting. Oct 24-26, 2007, University of Boston, Boston, USA.

Wulder, M.A., J. Dechka, M. Cranny, A. Beaudoin, J. Luther, R. Hall, D. Goodenough, and D. Leckie. 2007. Satellite land cover mapping of Canada’s forests: Completion of EOSD land cover, Canadian Remote Sensing Society and American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Joint Symposium, October 28 to November 1, 2007, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada,.



AAG – April 15 – 18 2008, Boston, USA.
Special Session: Advancing the Landsat Mission I

Headley, M. The Landsat Data Continuity Mission: Development Status and Product Plans.

Headley, R. and K. Kline. The Landsat Project: New Products, Activities, and No-Charge Data.

Masek, J.G., R. Headley, and S.J. Covington. The Global Land Survey 2005 Project.

Quirk, B. The National Land Imaging Program.

Woodcock, C.E. Using Landsat to write the history of the surface of Earth: A research agenda.

Special Session: Advancing the Landsat Mission II

Bindschadler, R., D. Binnie, A. Fox, A. Fleming, P. Vornberger, and J. Mullins. The new Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica; A part of your world you've never seen before.

Franks, S., J.G. Masek, and S. Covington. Large Area Scene Selection Interface (LASSI). The methodology used to select scenes for the Global Land Survey 2005.

Goward, S.N., D.L. Williams, A. Macatee. Cloud Contamination in Landsat Imagery: Current and Future Possible Solutions.

Huang, C., Z. Zhu, H. Shi, S.N. Goward, and J.R.G. Townshend. An assessment of forest disturbance and regrowth in Mississippi and Alabama using time series stacks of Landsat observations acquired since 1984.

Vogelmann , J, Z. Zhu, and S.K. Maxwell. Monitoring Long Term Trends in Forest Condition in the Southwestern United States using Multitemporal Landsat Data.



IGARSS- July 6- 11 2008, Boston, USA

Blinn, C., R. Wynne, and R. Amateis. Tracking loblolly pine growth through time with Landsat imagery.

Gerace, A. and J.R. Schott. An increased potential for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) to contribute to water quality studies for inland, case 2 waters

Padula, F and J.R. Schott. New Methodology for an Improved Thermal Calibration of Landsat 5 through Fusion of Environmental Data Sources.

Schott, J.R., C.R. Anderson, and J.A. Barsi. Refinement of the method for using pseudo-invariant sites for long term calibration trending of Landsat reflective bands.

Wynne, R., C. Potter, X. Liu, and C. Blinn. Landsat-based process modeling for loblolly pine carbon management.



Other 2008

Goward, S. and J.R. Irons. Beyond Landsat 7 Landsat Data Continuity Mission. National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Forum.

Helmer, E.H. 2008. Mapping tropical forest type, age and other attributes in the era of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission. Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, June 8-13, Paramaribo, Suriname.

Thenkabail, P., Tel Aviv, Israel Workshop on Water productivity mapping (WPM) and soil salinity mapping (SSM) through advanced remote sensing data and methods.

Thenkabail, P., Workshop on the Contribution of Shallow groundwater irrigation to livelihoods security and poverty reduction in White Volta Basin: current extent and future sustainability (Challenge Program for Water and Food - CPWF). Accra, Ghana.





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