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USGS | 2015
Essential climate variables (ECVs) are used to track critical attributes of atmospheric, oceanic, and terrestrial systems over time scales appropriate for analyzing their relationships with climate…
USGS | 2015
The USGS Astrogeology Science Center is directly involved in all current and planned National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and European Space Agency (ESA) missions to Mars. This…
USGS | 2015
The USGS Astrogeology Science Center provides cartographic software and other support to both the Dawn and New Horizons missions exploring the dwarf planets Ceres and Pluto, respectively. This…
USGS | 2015
Permanently shadowed craters near the poles of the Moon may contain substantial ice deposits. The USGS is supporting the search for this ice by producing high precision cartographic products from…
USGS | 2015
The latest edition of the National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD 2011) for Alaska was released in 2015. For Alaska, this database is designed to provide 10-year cyclical updating of the State's land cover…
USGS | 2015
Remote sensing glacier mapping approaches have typically required a substantial time investment from image analysts to select appropriate cloud-free scenes, set threshold values for image…
USGS | 2015
In 2015, NASA, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), and the USGS released a collection of higher resolution (i.e., more detailed) elevation datasets for most of the globe. The broad…
USGS | 2015
Until recently, Landsat imagery has not been commonly used to investigate the link between long-term climate trends, extreme weather events, and vegetation response, in part because of the on-site…
USGS | 2015
Many Arctic species synchronize their migrations and reproductive cycles with the timing of spring onset to optimize the availability of food resources. Rapid warming in the Arctic could advance…
USGS | 2015
Previous research has shown that coastal Louisiana has undergone a net change in wetland area of approximately –1,883 square miles from 1932 to 2010. This net change in land area amounts to a…
USGS | 2015
The USGS Western Geographic Science Center’s project for Remote Sensing Studies of Phenology-Carbon-Climate Relations (PCCR) uses satellite- and ground-based remote sensing to address one of the most…
USGS | 2015
The USGS EROS Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP) initiative centers on structured, operational, ongoing, and timely collection and delivery of accurate and relevant data,…