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Evaluation of the U.S. Geological Survey Landsat Burned Area Essential Climate Variable across the Conterminous U.S. Using Commercial High-Resolution Imagery

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2017
The U.S. Geological Survey has produced the Landsat Burned Area Essential Climate Variable (BAECV) product for the conterminous United States (CONUS), which provides wall-to-wall annual maps of burned area at 30 m resolution (1984–2015).
Melanie K. Vanderhoof   +3 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Towards a Traceable Climate Service: Assessment of Quality and Usability of Essential Climate Variables

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2019
Climate services are becoming the backbone to translate climate knowledge, data & information into climate-informed decision-making at all levels, from public administrations to business operators.
Yijian Zeng   +13 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Ocean color atmospheric correction methods in view of usability for different optical water types

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2023
Satellite remote sensing allows large-scale global observations of aquatic ecosystems and matter fluxes from the source through rivers and lakes to coasts, marginal seas into the open ocean.
Martin Hieronymi   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Challenges and Evolution of Water Level Monitoring towards a Comprehensive, World-Scale Coverage with Remote Sensing

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2022
Surface water availability is a fundamental environmental variable to implement effective climate adaptation and mitigation plans, as expressed by scientific, financial and political stakeholders.
Mélissande Machefer   +4 more
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Correction of inter-mission inconsistencies in merged ocean colour satellite data

open access: yesFrontiers in Remote Sensing, 2022
Consistency in a time series of ocean colour satellite data is essential when determining long-term trends and statistics in Essential Climate Variables.
Marit van Oostende   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bio-geo-optical modelling of natural waters

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2023
The color of natural waters – oceanic, coastal, and inland – is determined by the spectral absorption and scattering properties of dissolved and particulate water constituents.
Shun Bi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fractional Vegetation Cover Derived from UAV and Sentinel-2 Imagery as a Proxy for In Situ FAPAR in a Dense Mixed-Coniferous Forest?

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2022
The fraction of absorbed photosynthetic active radiation (FAPAR) is an essential climate variable for assessing the productivity of ecosystems. Satellite remote sensing provides spatially distributed FAPAR products, but their accurate and efficient ...
Birgitta Putzenlechner   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The GOME-type Total Ozone Essential Climate Variable (GTO-ECV) data record from the ESA Climate Change Initiative [PDF]

open access: yesAtmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2015
We present the new GOME-type Total Ozone Essential Climate Variable (GTO-ECV) data record which has been created within the framework of the European Space Agency's Climate Change Initiative (ESA-CCI).
M. Coldewey-Egbers   +11 more
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First Quantification of the Permafrost Heat Sink in the Earth's Climate System

open access: yesGeophysical Research Letters, 2023
Due to an imbalance between incoming and outgoing radiation at the top of the atmosphere, excess heat has accumulated in Earth's climate system in recent decades, driving global warming and climatic changes.
Jan Nitzbon   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Microwave Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2023
Soil moisture is an important component of the global terrestrial ecosystem and has been recognized as an Essential Climate Variable (ECV) by the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) [...]
Jiangyuan Zeng   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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