Urban areas are Earth’s fastest growing land use that impact hydrological and ecological systems and the surface energy balance. The identification and extraction of accurate spatial information relating to urban areas is essential for future sustainable city planning owing to its importance within global environmental change and human–environment interactions. However, monitoring urban expansi...

In Australia, Landsat imagery is currently used in a number of regional and national monitoring projects to provide maps of the extent and change in area of perennial vegetation. They provide basic information for conservation, land management and for modelling carbon flux and water use. With the looming gap in Landsat data continuity it is timely to consider the issues involved in using data f...

Owing to low temporal resolution and cloud interference, there is a shortage of high spatial resolution remote sensing data. To address this problem, this study introduces a modified spatial and temporal data fusion approach (MSTDFA) to generate daily synthetic Landsat imagery. This algorithm was designed to avoid the limitations of the conditional spatial temporal data fusion approach (STDFA) ...

This paper proposes a practical split-window algorithm (SWA) for retrieving land surface temperature (LST) from Landsat-8 Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) data. This SWA has a universal applicability and a set of parameters that can be applied when retrieving LSTs year-round. The atmospheric transmittance and the land surface emissivity (LSE), the essential SWA input parameters, of the Landsat-8 ...

Field size distributions and their changes have not been studied over large areas as field size change datasets are not available. This study quantifies agricultural field size changes in a consistent manner using Landsat satellite data that also provide geographic context for the observed decadal scale changes. Growing season cloud-free Landsat 30 m resolution images acquired from 9 to 25 year...

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First posted February 24, 2022 For additional information, contact: Program Coordinator, National Land Imaging U.S. Geological Survey 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive Reston, VA 20192Contact Pubs Warehouse Illinois is home to more than 12 million residents, including those living in Chicago, the third-largest city United States. Yet farmland claims about 75 percent of largely flat terrain Illinois. T...

First posted July 18, 2022 For additional information, contact: Program Coordinator, National Land Imaging U.S. Geological Survey 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive Reston, VA 20192Contact Pubs Warehouse Natural resources have always been a strength for Indiana. Once largely covered by forest, the State now includes mix of farmland, wetlands, and small lakes. In fact, farms forested areas make up more ...

First posted April 13, 2021 For additional information, contact: Program Coordinator, National Land Imaging U.S. Geological Survey12201 Sunrise Valley Drive Reston, VA 20192 Oregon’s landscape is as complex and diverse it beautiful. Mountain peaks in the Cascade Range soar higher than 10,000 feet. Crater Lake sinks to a depth of 1,943 feet, making deepest lake United States. lands feature fores...

First posted May 4, 2022 For additional information, contact: Program Coordinator, National Land Imaging U.S. Geological Survey 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive Reston, VA 20192Contact Pubs Warehouse Hawaii stands apart from the rest of United States, literally and figuratively. The nearest eight islands that make up Hawaiian archipelago is 2,000 miles mainland. Like every bit land mass within State,...