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Publications Citing Thematic Mapper Data
Browse a list of academic papers that cite data provided by NASA’s Thematic Mapper.
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| Downscaling Global Gridded Crop Yield Data Products and Crop Water Productivity Mapping Using Remote Sensing Derived Variables in the South Asia | Mohanasundaram, S., Kasiviswanathan, K. S., Purnanjali, C., Santikayasa, I. Putu, Singh, Shilpa | Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY, Vegetation Cover, Cropland |
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| Dispersal and fire limit Arctic shrub expansion | Liu, Yanlan, Riley, William J., Keenan, Trevor F., Mekonnen, Zelalem A., Holm, Jennifer A., Zhu, Qing, Torn, Margaret S. | Fire Occurrence, Forest Fire Science, Burned Area, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Forests, Vegetation Cover, Alpine/Tundra, Reflectance, Dominant Species | ||
| Dynamic Evolution Modeling of a Lake-Terminating Glacier in the Western | Yan, Zhan, Zhang, Tong, Wang, Yuzhe, Leng, Wei, Ding, Minghu, Zhang, Dongqi, Xiao, Cunde | Ice Velocity | ||
| Divergent impacts of crop diversity on caloric and economic yield | Driscoll, Avery W, Leuthold, Sam J, Choi, Eunkyoung, Clark, Samantha M, Cleveland, Daniel M, Dixon, Mary, Hsieh, Marian, Sitterson, Jan, Mueller, Nathaniel D | Crop/Plant Yields, Land Use Classes, Landscape Patterns, Cropland | ||
| Fifty years of Landsat science and impacts | Wulder, Michael A., Roy, David P., Radeloff, Volker C., Loveland, Thomas R., Anderson, Martha C., Johnson, David M., Healey, Sean, Zhu, Zhe, Scambos, Theodore A., Pahlevan, Nima, Hansen, Matthew, Gorelick, Noel, Crawford, Christopher J., Masek, Jeffrey G., Hermosilla, Txomin, White, Joanne C., Belward, Alan S., Schaaf, Crystal, Woodcock, Curtis E., Huntington, Justin L., Lymburner, Leo, Hostert, Patrick, Gao, Feng, Lyapustin, Alexei, Pekel, Jean-Francois, Strobl, Peter, Cook, Bruce D. | Ice Velocity | ||
| How well do global snow products characterize snow storage in High Mountain Asia? | Liu, Yufei, Fang, Yiwen, Li, Dongyue, Margulis, Steven A. | Surface Pressure, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature, Humidity, Evapotranspiration, Surface Winds, Rain, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature, Land Surface Temperature, Snow Water Equivalent, Runoff, Air Temperature, Skin Temperature, Specific Humidity, Water Vapor, Snow/Ice, Evaporation, Latent Heat Flux, Latent Heat Flux, Sensible Heat Flux, Diffusion, Surface Winds, Wind Speed, U/V Wind Components, Wind Stress, Wind Stress, Surface Roughness, Planetary Boundary Layer Height, Ice Fraction, Liquid Precipitation, Albedo, Snow Depth, Snow Water Equivalent, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Temperature, Soil Infiltration, Soil Infiltration, Surface Soil Moisture, Root Zone Soil Moisture, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Surface Water, Runoff Rate, Average Flow, Average Flow, Precipitation, Snow Depth, Snow Melt, Snow/Ice Temperature, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Leaf Area Index (LAI), Geopotential Height, Altitude, Upper Air Temperature, Dew Point Temperature, Cloud Top Temperature, Atmospheric Winds, Upper Level Winds, U/V Wind Components, Vertical Wind Velocity/Speed, Atmospheric Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Cloud Top Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Total Precipitable Water, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Atmospheric Ozone, Oxygen Compounds, Boundary Layer Winds, Total Ozone |
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| Evaluation of the accuracy of seven gridded satellite precipitation products over the Godavari River basin, India | Reddy, N. M., Saravanan, S. | Total Surface Precipitation Rate, Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| Forest structure and individual tree inventories of northeastern Siberia along climatic gradients | Miesner, Timon, Herzschuh, Ulrike, Pestryakova, Luidmila A., Wieczorek, Mareike, Zakharov, Evgenii S., Kolmogorov, Alexei I., Davydova, Paraskovya V., Kruse, Stefan | Forests, Infrared Imagery, Burned Area, Reforestation | ||
| Global coastal geomorphologyintegrating earth observation and geospatial data | Mao, Yongjing, Harris, Daniel L., Xie, Zunyi, Phinn, Stuart | Mangroves, Sustainability, Climate Adaptation | ||
| Flood Risk and Inundation Mapping of Assam using an Approach based on Geospatial Technology | Berlin, Anna C., Chowdhary, V. Rajesh, Menon, N. Vinod C. | Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| GIS-based assessment of land-agroforestry potentiality of Jharkhand State, India | Ahmad, Firoz, Talukdar, Nazimur Rahman, Goparaju, Laxmi, Biradar, Chandrashekhar, Dhyani, Shiv Kumar, Rizvi, Javed | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| Global food-security-support-analysis data at 30-m resolution (GFSAD30) cropland-extent productsDownload Analysis | Oliphant, Adam, Thenkabail, Prasad, Teluguntla, Pardhasaradhi | Crop/Plant Yields, Land Use Classes, Landscape Patterns, Cropland, Vegetation Cover |
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| Global inventory of suitable, cultivable and available cropland under different scenarios and policies | Schneider, Julia M., Zabel, Florian, Mauser, Wolfram | Urban Lands, Land Use/Land Cover, Urbanization/Urban Sprawl, Infrastructure | ||
| Improving the local climate zone classification with building height, imperviousness, and machine learning for urban models | Fung, Kwun Yip, Yang, Zong-Liang, Niyogi, Dev | Urban Lands, Land Use/Land Cover, Urbanization/Urban Sprawl, Infrastructure | ||
| Habitat suitability modeling for the endangered Bengal slow loris (Nycticebus bengalensis) in the Indo-Chinese subregion of India: a case study from southern Assam ... | Choudhury, Amir Sohail, Choudhury, Parthankar, Gassah, Rejoice | Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| Hotspot and trend analysis of forest fires and its relation to climatic factors in the western Himalayas | Kumar, Sunil, Kumar, Amit | Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| Landsat-and Sentinel-derived glacial lake dataset in the ChinaPakistan Economic Corridor from 1990 to 2020 | Lesi, Muchu, Nie, Yong, Shugar, Dan Hirsh, Wang, Jida, Deng, Qian, Chen, Huayong, Fan, Jianrong | Glacial Lake Extent | ||
| Landscape Genomics Provides Evidence of Ecotypic Adaptation and a Barrier to Gene Flow at Treeline for the Arctic Foundation Species Eriophorum ... | Stunz, Elizabeth, Fetcher, Ned, Lavretsky, Philip, Mohl, Jonathon E., Tang, Jianwu, Moody, Michael L. | Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Forests, Vegetation Cover, Alpine/Tundra, Reflectance, Dominant Species | ||
| Lack of vegetation exacerbates exposure to dangerous heat in dense settlements in a tropical African city | Van de Walle, J, Brousse, O, Arnalsteen, L, Brimicombe, C, Byarugaba, D, Demuzere, M, Jjemba, E, Lwasa, S, Misiani, H, Nsangi, G, Soetewey, F, Sseviiri, H, Thiery, W, Vanhaeren, R, Zaitchik, B F, van Lipzig, N P M | Urban Lands, Land Use/Land Cover, Urbanization/Urban Sprawl, Infrastructure | ||
| Meta-analysis of uranium contamination in groundwater of the alluvial plains of Punjab, northwest India: Status, health risk, and hydrogeochemical processes | Sahoo, Prafulla Kumar, Virk, Hardev Singh, Powell, Mike A., Kumar, Ravishankar, Pattanaik, Jitendra Kumar, Salomao, Gabriel Negreiros, Mittal, Sunil, Chouhan, Lokesh, Nandabalan, Yogalakshmi Kadapakkam, Tiwari, Raghavendra Prasad | Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| Prioritization of erosion prone areas based on a sediment yield index for conservation treatments: A case study of the upper Tapi River basin | Palmate, Santosh S., Amrit, Kumar, Jadhao, Vikas G., Dayal, Deen, Himanshu, Sushil Kumar | Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| Probabilistic Tracking of Annual Cropland Changes over Large, Complex | Xiong, Sitian, Baltezar, Priscilla, Crowley, Morgan A., Cecil, Michael, Crema, Stefano C., Baldwin, Eli, Cardille, Jeffrey A., Estes, Lyndon | Crop/Plant Yields, Land Use Classes, Landscape Patterns, Cropland | ||
| Predicting the distribution of arsenic in groundwater by a geospatial machine learning technique in the two most affected districts of Assam, India: The public health ... | Nath, Bibhash, Chowdhury, Runti, NiMeister, Wenge, Mahanta, Chandan | Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| Radar and optical remote sensing for near real-time assessments of | Mondal, Pinki, Dutta, Trishna, Qadir, Abdul, Sharma, Sandeep | Mangroves, Sustainability, Climate Adaptation | ||
| Agricultural landscape change impact on the quality of land: An African continent-wide assessment in gained and displaced agricultural lands | Akinyemi, Felicia O., Ifejika Speranza, Chinwe | Population Density, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY, Crop/Plant Yields, Land Use Classes, Landscape Patterns, Cropland |
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| A statistical evaluation of Earth-observation-based composite drought indices for a localized assessment of agricultural drought in Pakistan | Schwartz, Caily, Ellenburg, W. Lee, Mishra, Vikalp, Mayer, Timothy, Griffin, Robert, Qamer, Faisal, Matin, Mir, Tadesse, Tsegaye | Crop/Plant Yields, Land Use Classes, Landscape Patterns, Cropland | ||
| Advances in amazonian peatland discrimination with multi-temporal PALSAR Refines estimates of Peatland distribution, C stocks and deforestation | Bourgeau-Chavez, Laura L., Grelik, Sarah L., Battaglia, Michael J., Leisman, Dorthea J., Chimner, Rod A., Hribljan, John A., Lilleskov, Erik A., Draper, Freddie C., Zutta, Brian R., Hergoualch, Kristell, Bhomia, Rupesh K., Lahteenoja, Outi | Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Dominant Species | ||
| A western United States snow reanalysis dataset over the Landsat era from water years 1985 to 2021 | Fang, Yiwen, Liu, Yufei, Margulis, Steven A. | Geopotential Height, Altitude, Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Dew Point Temperature, Air Temperature, Cloud Top Temperature, Atmospheric Winds, Surface Winds, U/V Wind Components, Upper Level Winds, U/V Wind Components, Vertical Wind Velocity/Speed, Atmospheric Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Cloud Top Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, Specific Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Atmospheric Ozone, Oxygen Compounds, Boundary Layer Winds, Total Ozone, Snow Depth, Snow Water Equivalent | ||
| A review of carbon monitoring in wet carbon systems using remote sensing | Campbell, Anthony D, Fatoyinbo, Temilola, Charles, Sean P, Bourgeau-Chavez, Laura L, Goes, Joaquim, Gomes, Helga, Halabisky, Meghan, Holmquist, James, Lohrenz, Steven, Mitchell, Catherine, Moskal, L Monika, Poulter, Benjamin, Qiu, Han, Resende De Sousa, Celio H, Sayers, Michael, Simard, Marc, Stewart, Anthony J, Singh, Debjani, Trettin, Carl, Wu, Jinghui, Zhang, Xuesong, Lagomasino, David | Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence, Wetlands, Forests, Fire Ecology, Wetlands, Coastal, Gross Primary Production (gpp), Intertidal Zone, Biomass, Canopy Characteristics, Dominant Species, Salt Marsh, Vegetation Species, Carbon, Biogeochemical Cycles |
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| A Reconstruction of Irrigated Cropland Extent in China from 2000 to 2019 Using the Synergy of Statistics and Satellite-Based Datasets | Bai, Minghao, Zhou, Shenbei, Tang, Ting | Vegetation Cover, Cropland | ||
| A remote sensing-based approach to estimating the fire spread rate parameter for individual burn patch extraction | Humber, Michael, Zubkova, Maria, Giglio, Louis | Fire Occurrence, Fire Dynamics, Burned Area, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Fire Ecology, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Dominant Species, Vegetation Index, Biomass | ||
| A Structural Equation Modeling Approach to Disentangling Regional-Scale Landscape Dynamics in Ghana | Peeling, Julie A., Singh, Aditya, Judge, Jasmeet | Albedo, Anisotropy, Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Forest Management |
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| Changes over the Last 35 Years in Alaska's Glaciated Landscape: A Novel Deep Learning Approach to Mapping Glaciers at Fine Temporal Granularity | Roberts-Pierel, Ben M., Kirchner, Peter B., Kilbride, John B., Kennedy, Robert E. | Ice Velocity | ||
| Changes over time matterA cycle of participatory sustainability assessment of organic coffee in Chiapas, Mexico | Jimenez-Ortega, Aldo Daniel, Aguilar Ibarra, Alonso, Galeana-Pizana, J. Mauricio, Nunez, Juan Manuel | Forest Management | ||
| Climate-induced fire regime amplification in Alberta, Canada | Whitman, Ellen, Parks, Sean A, Holsinger, Lisa M, Parisien, Marc-Andre | Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Forests, Vegetation Cover, Alpine/Tundra, Reflectance, Dominant Species | ||
| Climate Change Impact Assessment on Stream flow of Ganjal River, India | Singh, Adarsh, Singh, Geeta | Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| Assessing the impact of land use and land cover changes on the water balances in an urbanized peninsular region of India | Ganapathi, Harsh, Phukan, Mayuri, Vasudevan, Preethi, Palmate, Santosh S. | Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| Biodiversity Status, Issues, and Challenges: Trees and Shrubs | Ahmad, Mustaqeem, Batish, Daizy R., Singh, Harminder Pal | Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| Capturing Stakeholders' Challenges of the Food-Water-Energy Nexus-A | Karutz, Raphael, Omann, Ines, Gorelick, Steven M., Klassert, Christian J. A., Zozmann, Heinrich, Zhu, Yuanzao, Kabisch, Sigrun, Kindler, Annegret, Figueroa, Anjuli Jain, Wang, Ankun, Kublbock, Karin, Grohs, Hannes, Burek, Peter, Smilovic, Mikhail, Klauer, Bernd | Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| Analyzing spatial-temporal variability of ice motion in Northeast Greenland from 1985 to 2018 | Lu, Xi, Jiang, Liming, Xiao, Cunde, Li, Daan | Ice Velocity | ||
| Analyzing the Impact of Food-Energy-Water Nexus-Based Agricultural Patterns on Regional Water Resources | Dhanraj, Rashi, Shastri, Yogendra | Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| Determinants of resilience for food and nutrition security in South Sudan | Ulimwengu, John M., Thomas, Timothy S., Marivoet, Wim, Benin, Samuel | Population Density, Urban Lands, Land Use/Land Cover, Urbanization/Urban Sprawl, Infrastructure | ||
| Crop damage by vertebrates in Latin America: current knowledge and | Cuesta Hermira, Adrian Alejandro, Michalski, Fernanda | Crop/Plant Yields, Land Use Classes, Landscape Patterns, Cropland | ||
| Declining severe fire activity on managed lands in Equatorial Asia | Sloan, Sean, Locatelli, Bruno, Andela, Niels, Cattau, Megan E., Gaveau, David, Tacconi, Luca | Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence, Wetlands, Forests, Fire Ecology, Precipitation, Precipitation Amount, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Rain | ||
| Processing methodology for the ITS_LIVE Sentinel-1 ice velocity products | Lei, Yang, Gardner, Alex S., Agram, Piyush | Ice Velocity, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation |
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| PSO-WELLSVM: An integrated method and its application in urban waterlogging susceptibility assessment in the central Wuhan, China | Du, Wenying, Gong, Yue, Chen, NengCheng | Urban Lands, Land Use/Land Cover, Urbanization/Urban Sprawl, Infrastructure | ||
| Quantifying stream flows and groundwater response under the climate and land use change through integrated hydrological modelling in a South Indian River basin | Surinaidu, L. | Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| Remote sensing assessment of available green water to increase crop production in seasonal floodplain wetlands of sub-Saharan Africa | Ayyad, Saher, Karimi, Poolad, Langensiepen, Matthias, Ribbe, Lars, Rebelo, Lisa-Maria, Becker, Mathias | Crop/Plant Yields, Land Use Classes, Landscape Patterns, Cropland, Plant Phenology, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Evapotranspiration, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Latent Heat Flux, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Land Use/Land Cover Classification |
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| Reply to: The risks of overstating the climate benefits of ecosystem | Strassburg, Bernardo B. N., Iribarrem, Alvaro, Beyer, Hawthorne L., Cordeiro, Carlos Leandro, Crouzeilles, Renato, Jakovac, Catarina, Junqueira, Andre Braga, Lacerda, Eduardo, Latawiec, Agnieszka E., Balmford, Andrew, Brooks, Thomas M., Butchart, Stuart H. M., Chazdon, Robin L., Erb, Karl-Heinz, Brancalion, Pedro, Buchanan, Graeme, Cooper, David, Diaz, Sandra, Donald, Paul F., Kapos, Valerie, Leclere, David, Miles, Lera, Obersteiner, Michael, Plutzar, Christoph, Scaramuzza, Carlos Alberto de M., Scarano, Fabio R., Visconti, Piero | Crop/Plant Yields, Land Use Classes, Landscape Patterns, Cropland | ||
| Retrospective Predictions of Rice and Other Crop Production in | Rigden, Angela J., Golden, Christopher, Huybers, Peter | Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Crop/Plant Yields, Land Use Classes, Landscape Patterns, Cropland |
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