Earth ID: 3330

Creating the Tamarisk Habitat Suitability Map (for General Use)

Visualizations by Alex Kekesi Released on February 15, 2006

The spread of invasive species is one of the most daunting environmental, economic, and human-health problems facing the United States and the World today. It is one of several grand challenge environmental problems being addressed by NASA's Science Mission Directorate through a national application partnership with the US Geological Survey. NASA and USGS are working together to develop a National Invasive Species Forecasting System (ISFS) for the management and control of invasive species on Department of Interior and adjacent lands. The system provides a framework for using USGS's early detection and monitoring protocols and predictive models to process MODIS, ETM+, ASTER and commercial remote sensing data. It can also be used to create on-demand, regional-scale assessments of invasive species patterns and vulnerable habitats.

The first step in this process is to collect relevant satellite data which can then be used to derive a Tamarisk Habitat Suitability Map. By combining satellite observed annual vegetation cycles with land cover classification data the likely habitat for Tamarisk can be derived.

The Annual Vegetation Cycle data (in shades of green) is the topmost dataset in this image. The MODIS Landcover Classification data (in shades of yellow, orange, and green) is the bottommost dataset in this image.

Visualization Credits

Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Lead Animator
Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC): Animator
Cindy Starr (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Visualizer
Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Animator
Jeffrey Morisette (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
Jeff Pedelty (NASA/GSFC): Scientist

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Missions:
Landsat
Terra

Data Used:

Tamarisk Suitability

J. Morisette, et al., includes data from NASA's Terra, Aqua, and Earth Observing-1 satellites, and the USGS Landsat satellites.

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/invasive_species.html

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Terra/MODIS

08/2005

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NOAA/AVHRR/NDVI

1/1/2001 - 12/31/2001

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Landsat-7/ETM+

08/2005

http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/wrs.html

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Terra and Aqua/MODIS/Land Cover

1/1/2001 - 7/1/2001

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Aqua/MODIS

08/2005

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This item is part of this series:
Invasive Species Forecasting System

Keywords:
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Land Surface >> Land Use/Land Cover
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Biosphere >> Ecological Dynamics >> Invasive Species
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Land Surface >> Land Use/Land Cover >> Land Use Classes
GCMD >> Location >> United States Of America
NASA Science >> Earth

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0

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