Jennifer Rover

Landsat classification of surface water for multiple seasons to monitor inundation of playa wetlands

To improve understanding of the distribution of important, ephemeral wetland habitats across the Great Plains, we documented the occurrence and distribution of surface water in playa wetland complexes for four different years across the Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GPLCC) region. Years of research on playas has yielded multiple mechanisms and projections for sub-regions of the LCC area, but a complete, region-wide inventory and assessment has not been completed. This information is important because it informs habitat and population managers about the timing and location of habitat availability. Data representing the presence of water, percent of the area inundated with water, and the spatial...

Categories: Data; Tags: Great Plains, Landsat, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, All tags... inlandWaters, playa wetlands, remote sensing, Fewer tags

LCMAP Applied Science

The LCMAP Applied Science team develops innovative applications with time-series land cover data and products. New applications are relevant to partner and stakeholder needs while providing opportunities that enable user feedback to be incorporated into future research and product development. Engagement with the community by means of various mechanisms such as workshops are an ongoing aspect of the project.

Geographically Isolated Wetlands (GIWs) occur along gradients of hydrologic and ecological connectivity and isolation, even within wetland types (e.g., forested, emergent marshes) and functional classes (e.g., ephemeral systems, permanent systems, etc.). Within a given watershed, the relative positions of wetlands and open-waters along these gradients influence the type and magnitude of their chemical, physical, and biological effects on downgradient waters. In addition, the ways in which GIWs connect to the broader hydrological landscape, and the effects of such connectivity on downgradient waters, depends largely upon climate, geology, and relief, the heterogeneity of which expands with increasing scale. Developing...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Active, All Working Groups, Ecosystems, Geographically isolated wetlands, depressional wetlands, perimeter, Water, All tags... Water Connectivity, Water Resources, Wetlands, Fewer tags

Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP) represents a new generation of land cover mapping and change monitoring from the U.S. Geological Survey’s Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. LCMAP answers a need for higher quality results at greater frequency with additional land cover and change variables than previous efforts. By utilizing a suite of operational automated algorithms to identify different forms of change and to characterize the large variety of land cover types, uses, and conditions that exist across the United States and beyond, LCMAP products provide land change science information in understanding changes in the type, intensity, condition, location, and time of...

Categories: Project; Tags: Conterminous United States (CONUS), Continuous Change Detection and Classification (CCDC), LCMAP, Land Cover, Land Use, All tags... Land Use/Land Cover, Landsat, Landsat Analysis Ready Data (ARD), Machine learning, assessment, change, monitoring, projection, validation, Fewer tags