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Maxar

Publications using Maxar smallsat data.

Title Primary author Year
A landscape evolution modeling approach for predicting three-dimensional soil organic carbon redistribution in agricultural landscapes. JGR Biogeosciences, 127(2). doi:10.1029/2021JG006616 Kwang, J.S. 2022
Quantifying mass flows at Mt. Cleveland, Alaska between 2001 and 2020 using satellite photogrammetry. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 429. doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2022.107614 Dai, C. 2022
Assessing within-Field Corn and Soybean Yield Variability from WorldView-3, Planet, Sentinel-2, and Landsat 8 Satellite Imagery. Remote Sensing 13(5). doi:10.3390/rs13050872 Skakun, S. 2021
The extent of soil loss across the US Corn Belt. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 118(8). doi:10.1073/pnas.1922375118 Thaler, E. 2021
Semi-supervised Adversarial Domain Adaptation for Seagrass Detection Using Multispectral Images in Coastal Areas. Data Science and Engineering, 5. doi:10.1007/s41019-020-00126-0 Islam, K.A. 2020
An unexpectedly large count of trees in the West African Sahara and Sahel. Nature 587. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2824-5 Brandt, M. 2020
Performance across WorldView-2 and RapidEye for reproducible seagrass mapping.
Remote Sensing of Environment, 25. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2020.112036
Coffer, M. 2020
Storm surge, not wind, caused mangrove dieback in southwest Florida following Hurricane Irma. EarthArxiv (preprint). doi:10.31223/osf.io/q4exh Lagomasino, D. 2020
Structural characterisation of mangrove forests achieved through combining multiple sources of remote sensing data.
Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol 237, ISSN 0034-4257. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2019.111543
Lucas, R 2020
The bioclimatic extent and pattern of the cold edge of the boreal forest: the circumpolar taiga-tundra ecotone. Environmental Research Letters, 15(10). doi:10.1088/1748-9326/abb2c7 Montesano, P. 2020
In search of floating algae and other organisms in global oceans and lakes.
Remote Sensing of Environment, 239. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2020.111659
Qi, L. 2020
Resolvable estuaries for satellite derived water quality within the continental United States.
Remote Sensing Letters, 11(6): 535-544. doi:10.1080/2150704X.2020.1717013
Schaeffer, B. 2020
Fusion Approach for Remotely-Sensed Mapping of Agriculture (FARMA): A Scalable Open Source Method for Land Cover Monitoring Using Data Fusion. Remote Sensing 12(2). doi:10.3390/rs12203459 Thomas, N. 2020
Remote Sensing of Coconut Trees in Tonga Using Very High Spatial Resolution WorldView-3 Data.
Remote Sensing, 12(19). doi:10.3390/rs12193113
Vermote, E 2020
Use of Very High-Resolution Optical Data for Landslide Mapping and Susceptibility Analysis along the Karnali Highway, Nepal.
Remote Sensing 11(19). doi:10.3390/rs11192284
Amatya, P. 2019
The effects of trainings in soil and water conservation on farming practices, livelihoods, and land-use intensity in the Ethiopian highlands.
Land Use Policy. Volume 87, September 2019, 104051. doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104051
Chesterman, N.S. 2019
Characterizing multi-decadal, annual land cover change dynamics in Houston, TX based on automated classification of Landsat imagery. doi:10.1080/01431161.2018.1516318 Hakkenberg, C.R. 2019
Spatiotemporal changes of informal settlements: Ger districts in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Landscape and Urban Planning, Volume 191, 103630, ISSN 0169-2046, doi: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2019.103630
Hogeun, P. 2019
Basaltic terrains in Idaho and Hawai 'i as planetary analogs for Mars geology and astrobiology.
Astrobiology 19(3).doi:10.1089/ast.2018.1847
Hughes, S. 2019
The State of Remote Sensing Capabilities of Cascading Hazards Over High Mountain Asia.
Frontiers in Earth Science 7(197). doi:10.3389/feart.2019.00197
Kirschbaum, C. 2019
Boreal canopy surfaces from spaceborne stereogrammetry.
Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 225, Pages 148-159, ISSN 0034-4257. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2019.02.012
Montesano, P. 2019
Improved assessment of mangrove forests in Sundarbans East Wildlife Sanctuary using WorldView 2 and TanDEM?X high resolution imagery.
Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 5: 136-149. doi:10.1002/rse2.105
Rahmen, M.M. 2019
A Study of African Savanna Vegetation Structure, Patterning, and Change.
Electronic Theses and Dissertations.
Axelsson, C. 2018
Rates of woody encroachment in African savannas reflect water constraints and fire disturbance.
J Biogeography, 2018;00:1–10. doi: 10.1111/jbi.13221
Axelsson, C. 2018
Contributions of landscape heterogeneity within the footprint of eddy-covariance towers to flux measurements.
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Volumes 260–261, 15 October 2018, Pages 144-153, ISSN 0168-1923. doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.06.004
Giannico, V. 2018
Urban Transformation in Transitional Economies: Lessons From the Mongolian Plateau.
Michigan State University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.
Hogeun, P. 2018
Measuring short-term post-fire forest recovery across a burn severity gradient in a mixed pine-oak forest using multi-sensor remote sensing techniques.
Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 210, 1 June 2018, Pages 282-296, ISSN 0034-4257. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2018.03.019
Meng, R. 2018
Forest Cover Dynamics of Shifting Cultivation in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
University of Maryland, Digital Repository at the University of Maryland, Dissertation. doi:10.13016/iazo-hngv
Molinario, G 2018
Characterizing agricultural drought in the Karamoja subregion of Uganda with meteorological and satellite-based indices.
Natural Hazards. doi: 10.1007/s11069-017-3106-x
Nakalembe, C. 2018
Smallholder crop area mapped with wall-to-wall WorldView sub-meter panchromatic image texture: A test case for Tigray, Ethiopia.
Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 212, 2018, 8-20. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2018.04.025
Neigh, C. 2018
Anticipating social equity impacts in REDD+ policy design: An example from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Land Use Policy, Volume 75, June 2018, 102-115, ISSN 0264-8377. doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.03.011
Pelletier, J. 2018
Changes in tall shrub abundance on the North Slope of Alaska, 2000–2010.
Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 219, 221-232. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2018.10.009
Rocio, R. 2018
Land cover and land use change analysis using multi-spatial resolution data and object-based image analysis.
Remote Sensing of Environment, 210, 259-268. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2018.03.023
Toure, S.I. 2018
Biological processes dominate seasonality of remotely sensed canopy greenness in an Amazon evergreen forest.
New Phytologist, 217(4), 1507-1520. doi:10.1111/nph.14939
Wu, J. 2018
Multi-Decadal Surface Water Dynamics in North American Tundra.
Remote Sensing, 2017, 9(5), 497. doi: 10.3390/rs9050497
Carroll, M.L. 2017
An Automated Approach to Map Winter Cropped Area of Smallholder Farms across Large Scales Using MODIS Imagery.
Remote Sensing, 9(6), 566. doi:10.3390/rs9060566
Jain, M. 2017
Remote sensing evidence of lava–ground ice interactions associated with the Lost Jim Lava Flow, Seward Peninsula, Alaska.
Bulletin of Volcanology 79. doi:10.1007/s00445-017-1176-y
Marcucci, E.C. 2017
Extracting smallholder cropped area in Tigray, Ethiopia with wall-to-wall sub-meter WorldView and moderate resolution Landsat 8 imagery. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2017.06.040 McCarty, J.L. 2017
Quantification of land cover and land use within the rural complex of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Environmental Research Letters, Volume 12, Number 10. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aa8680
Molinario, G 2017
The use of sun elevation angle for stereogrammetric boreal forest height in open canopies.
Remote Sensing of Environment, 196, 76-88. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2017.04.024
Montesano, P. 2017
Agricultural land use change in Karamoja Region, Uganda.
Land Use Policy, Volume 62, March 2017, 2–12. doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.11.029
Nakalembe, C. 2017
Using high spatial resolution satellite imagery to map forest burn severity across spatial scales in a Pine Barrens ecosystem.
Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 191, 15 March 2017, 95–109. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2017.01.016
Neigh, C. 2017
Climate-induced mortality of Siberian pine and fir in the Lake Baikal Watershed, Siberia.
Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 384, 15 January 2017, 191-199. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2016.10.050
Ranson, K.J. 2017
Three decades of Landsat-derived spring surface water dynamics in an agricultural wetland mosaic; Implications for migratory shorebirds.
Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 193, May 2017, 180-192. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2017.02.016
Schaffer-Smith, D. 2017
Historic drought puts the brakes on earthflows in Northern California.
Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 5725–5731. doi: 10.1002/2016GL068378
Benneett, G.L. 2016
Vegetation Disturbance and Recovery Following a Rare Windthrow Event in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume XLI-B8, 2016 XXIII SPRS Congress, 12–19 July 2016, Prague, Czech Republic. doi:10.5194/isprs-archives-XLI-B8-571-2016
Bernardes, S. 2016
Classification and assessment of land cover and land use change in southern Ghana using dense stacks of Landsat 7 ETM+ imagery
Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 184, October 2016, 396–409. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2016.07.016
Coulter, L.L. 2016
Disturbance analyses of forests and grasslands with MODIS and Landsat in New Zealand.
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Volume 45, Part A, March 2016, 42–54. doi:10.1016/j.jag.2015.10.009
de Beurs, K.M. 2016
Mapping paddy rice planting area in northeastern Asia with Landsat 8 images, phenology-based algorithm and Google Earth Engine.
Remote Sensing of Environment, 2016, 185, 142-154. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.02.016
Dong, J. 2016
Landscape-Level Associations of Wintering Waterbird Diversity and Abundance from Remotely Sensed Wetland Characteristics of Poyang Lake.
Remote Sensing, 2016, 8(6), 462. doi: 10.3390/rs8060462
Dronova, I 2016
Capability of the CANAPI algorithm to derive shrub structural parameters from satellite imagery in the Alaskan Arctic.
Polar Record, 52(2), 124-133. doi: 10.1017/S0032247415000509
Duchesne, R. 2016
Climate-induced landsliding within the larch dominant permafrost zone of central Siberia.
Environmental Research Letters, Volume 11, Number 4. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2017.01.016
Kharuk, V.I. 2016
A Comparison of Mangrove Canopy Height Using Multiple Independent Measurements from Land, Air, and Space.
Remote Sensing, 2016, 8(4), 327. doi: 10.3390/rs8040327
Lagomasino, D. 2016
Monitoring orbital precession of EO-1 Hyperion with three atmospheric correction models in the Libya-4 PICS.
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, Vol. 13, NO. 12, Dec 2016. doi:10.1109/LGRS.2016.2612539
Neigh, C. 2016
Regional rates of young US forest growth estimated from annual Landsat disturbance history and IKONOS stereo imagery.
Remote Sensing of Environment, 173, 282-293. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.09.007
Neigh, C. 2016
The Susceptibility of Southeastern Amazon Forests to Fire: Insights from a Large-Scale Burn Experiment.
Bioscience, 65, 893-905. doi:10.1093/biosci/biv106
Balch, J.K. 2015
Tracking the dynamics of paddy rice planting area in 1986–2010 through time series Landsat images and phenology-based algorithms.
Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 160, April 2015, 99–113. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2015.01.004
Dong, J. 2015
Mapping dynamic cover types in a large seasonally flooded wetland using extended principal component analysis and object-based classification.
Remote Sensing of Environment, 158, 193–206. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2014.10.027
Dronova, I 2015
Changes in tall shrub abundance on the North Slope of Alaska, 2000-2010.
Montclair State University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2015. 3721431
Duchesne, O. 2015
Mapping Slums Using Spatial Features in Accra, Ghana.
Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE), March 30 2015-April 1 2015.
Engstrom, R. 2015
High-resolution forest canopy height estimation in an Africa blue carbon ecosystem.
Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. doi:10.1002/rse2.3
Lagomasino, D. 2015
Does the spatial arrangement of urban landscape matter? Examples of urban warming and cooling in Phoenix and Las Vegas.
Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, 1, 1-15. doi: 10.1890/EHS14-0028.1
Myint, S.W. 2015
Characterizing Forest Disturbance Dynamics in the Humid Tropics Using Optical and Lidar Remotely Sensed Data Sets.
University of Maryland, Digital Repository at the University of Maryland, Dissertation. doi: 10.13016/M2W615
Tyukavina, A. 2015
Mapping paddy rice planting area in wheat-rice double-cropped areas through integration of Landsat-8 OLI, MODIS, and PALSAR images. Scientific Reports volume 5, Article number: 10088. Wang, J.I. 2015
A contemporary decennial examination of changing agricultural field sizes using Landsat time series data.
Geography and Environment, 2: 33–54. doi: 10.1002/geo2.4
White, E.V. 2015
Tall shrub and tree expansion in Siberian tundra ecotones since the 1960s.
Global Change Biology, 20:1264-1277. doi.org:10.1111/gcb.12406
Frost, G.V. 2014
Regional and landscape-scale variability of Landsat-observed vegetation dynamics in northwest Siberian tundra.
Environmental Research Letters, 9:025004. doi.org:10.1088/1748-9326/9/2/025004
Frost, G.V. 2014
The role of environmental, socioeconomic, institutional, and land-cover/ land-use change factors to explain the pattern and drivers of anthropogenic fires in post-Soviet Eastern Europe: a case study comparison of Belarus, European Russia, and Lithuania.
NASA LCLUC Science Team Meeting.
McCarty, J.L. 2014
The Uncertainty of Plot-Scale Forest Height Estimates from Complementary Spaceborne Observations in the Taiga-Tundra Ecotone.
Remote Sensing, 6, 10070-10088. doi:10.3390/rs61010070
Montesano, P. 2014
Deciphering the precision of stereo IKONOS canopy height models for U.S. forests with G-LiHT airborne LiDAR.
Remote Sensing, 6 1762-1782. doi:10.3390/rs6031762
Neigh, C. 2014
Patterned-ground facilitates shrub expansion in Low Arctic tundra.
Environmental Research Letters, 8:015035. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/015035
Frost, G.V. 2013
Mapping cropping intensity of smallholder farms – a comparison of methods using multiple sensors.
Remote Sensing of Environment, 134: 210-223. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2013.02.029
Jain, M. 2013
National-scale estimation of gross forest aboveground carbon loss: a case study of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Environmental Research Letters, 8:04403.
Tyukavina, A. 2013
Planet

Publications using Planet smallsat data.

Title Primary author Year
Mapping Flash Flood Hazards in Arid Regions using CubeSats. Remote Sensing, 14(17): 4218. doi:10.3390/rs14174218 Wang, Z. 2022
Detecting Streamflow in Dryland Rivers using CubeSats. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(15). doi:10.1029/2022GL098729 Wang, Z. 2022
Potential for commercial PlanetScope satellites in oil response monitoring. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 183. doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.114077 Schaeffer, B. 2022
Automated digital elevation model (DEM) generation from very-high-resolution Planet SkySat triplet stereo and video imagery.
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 173. doi:10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2020.12.012
Bhushan, S. 2021
High-resolution CubeSat imagery and machine learning for detailed snow-covered area.
Remote Sensing of Environment, 258. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2021.112399
Cannistra, A 2021
Supraglacial lake bathymetry automatically derived from ICESat-2 constraining lake depth estimates from multi-source satellite imagery. The Cryosphere Discuss. doi:10.5194/tc-2021-4 Datta, RT 2021
Surface heights and crevasse morphologies of surging and fast-moving glaciers from ICESat-2 laser altimeter data - Application of the density-dimension algorithm (DDA-ice) and evaluation using airborne altimeter and Planet SkySat data.
Science of Remote Sensing, 3. doi:10.1016/j.srs.2020.100013
Herzfeld, U. 2021
Characterization of Planetscope-0 Planetscope-1 surface reflectance and normalized difference vegetation index continuity. Science of Remote Sensing, 3. doi:10.1016/j.srs.2021.100014 Huang, H. 2021
Assessing within-Field Corn and Soybean Yield Variability from WorldView-3, Planet, Sentinel-2, and Landsat 8 Satellite Imagery.
Remote Sensing 13(5). doi:10.3390/rs13050872
Skakun, S. 2021
Performance across WorldView-2 and RapidEye for reproducible seagrass mapping.
Remote Sensing of Environment, 25. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2020.112036
Coffer, M. 2020
ICESat-2 Meltwater Depth Estimates: Application to Surface Melt on Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(8). doi:10.1029/2020GL090550 Fricker, H. 2020
Evaluating the performance of high-resolution satellite imagery in detecting ephemeral water bodies over West Africa.
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 93. doi:10.1016/j.jag.2020.102218
Mishra, V. 2020
In search of floating algae and other organisms in global oceans and lakes.
Remote Sensing of Environment, 239. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2020.111659
Qi, L. 2020
Resolvable estuaries for satellite derived water quality within the continental United States.
Remote Sensing Letters, 11(6): 535-544. doi:10.1080/2150704X.2020.1717013
Schaeffer, B. 2020
Use of Very High-Resolution Optical Data for Landslide Mapping and Susceptibility Analysis along the Karnali Highway, Nepal.
Remote Sensing 11(19). doi:10.3390/rs11192284
Amatya, P. 2019
The State of Remote Sensing Capabilities of Cascading Hazards Over High Mountain Asia.
Frontiers in Earth Science 7(197). doi:10.3389/feart.2019.00197
Kirschbaum, C. 2019
Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 burned area mapping - A combined sensor multi-temporal change detection approach.
Remote Sensing of Environment, 231(15). doi:10.1016/j.rse.2019.111254
Roy, D. 2019
Maxar and Planet

Publications using both Maxar and Planet smallsat data.

Title Primary author Year
Satellite remote sensing of pelagic Sargassum macroalgae: The power of high resolution and deep learning. Remote Sensing of Environment, 264. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2021.112631 Wang, M. 2021
Satellite Remote Sensing of Herring (Clupea pallasii) Spawning Events: A Case Study in the Strait of Georgia. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(7). doi:10.1029/2020GL092126 Qi, L. 2021
Assessing within-Field Corn and Soybean Yield Variability from WorldView-3, Planet, Sentinel-2, and Landsat 8 Satellite Imagery. Remote Sensing 13(5). doi:10.3390/rs13050872 Skakun, S. 2021
Performance across WorldView-2 and RapidEye for reproducible seagrass mapping.
Remote Sensing of Environment, 25. doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112036
Coffer, M. 2020
In search of floating algae and other organisms in global oceans and lakes.
Remote Sensing of Environment, 239. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2020.111659
Qi, L. 2020
Resolvable estuaries for satellite derived water quality within the continental United States.
Remote Sensing Letters, 11(6): 535-544. doi:10.1080/2150704X.2020.1717013
Schaeffer, B. 2020
Use of Very High-Resolution Optical Data for Landslide Mapping and Susceptibility Analysis along the Karnali Highway, Nepal.
Remote Sensing 11(19). doi:10.3390/rs11192284
Amatya, P. 2019
The State of Remote Sensing Capabilities of Cascading Hazards Over High Mountain Asia.
Frontiers in Earth Science 7(197). doi:10.3389/feart.2019.00197
Kirschbaum, C. 2019
Spire

Publications using Spire smallsat data.

Title Primary author Year
Coherent GNSS-Reflections Characterization Over Ocean and Sea Ice Based on Spire Global CubeSat Data. 
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (early access) doi:10.1109/TGRS.2021.3129999
Roesler, C. 2021
Coherent GNSS Reflection Signal Processing for High-Precision and High-Resolution Spaceborne Applications.
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 59(1). doi:10.1109/TGRS.2020.2993804
Wang, Y. 2021
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