Browsing by Subject "remote sensing"
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(2017-05-30)Satellite remote sensing has offered a unique promise for monitoring reservoir storage variations at near real-time. Such information is essential for flood mitigation—especially for regions dominated by international river ...
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(2016-08-30)The interaction between sand-dune patterns and topographic obstacles is a primary signal of sand transport direction in the equatorial region of Saturn’s moon, Titan. A streamlined, tear drop appearance emerges as dune ...
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(2012-02-14)In this study, the performances of the optical sensors and instruments carried on both ground-based and airborne platforms were evaluated for monitoring crop growing status, detecting the vegetation response to aerial ...
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(2014-12-16)For TSS, TN, and TP, this study examined the relationship between BMP pollutant removal efficiency and environmental factors such as ratio of BMP/catchment area, dominant land use, ratio of the dominant land use/catchment ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)This dissertation consists of three studies dealing with particulate organic carbon (POC). The first study describes the temporal and spatial variability of particulate matter (PM) and POC, and physical processes that ...
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(2017-06-26)Standing dead trees (SDTs) are an important forest component and impact a variety of ecosystem processes, yet the carbon pool dynamics of SDTs are poorly constrained in terrestrial carbon cycling models. The ability to ...
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(2021-03-24)Increasing temperatures have been altering hydrological conditions and leading to ecological regime shifts across the Arctic biome, with influences on terrestrial carbon cycling. However, the sign, extent, and magnitude ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)This study evaluated the applicability of remote sensing instrumentation for site- specific management of abiotic and biotic stress on cotton grown under a center pivot. Three different irrigation regimes (100%, 75%, and ...
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(2015-12-17)Land degradation and desertification is a serious global issue facing arid ecosystems. Problems of land degradation in Kuwait deserts have accelerated throughout the world, leading to loss of vegetation cover and topsoil ...
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(2021-05-07)Today, issues pertaining to anthropogenic and climate forcing are threatening available water resources on a global scale. For remote alpine regions whose primary water resources are seasonally derived from snowmelt and ...
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(2018-09-04)Surface water reservoirs have been used for supporting many water resources applications such as flood control, water supply, and hydropower generation. Modeling of reservoir systems and observations of the key water budget ...
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(2019-12-03)Sargassum fluitans and sargassum natans have been impacting and inundating coastal communities in massive bloom events along the Caribbean Islands and the Yucatan Peninsula, the Gulf of Mexico and West Africa, creating a ...
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(2012-11-07)This dissertation aims to study the mid-level clouds using satellite observations. It consists of two major parts: characteristics (including cloud top/base heights, cloud top pressure and temperature, and cloud thickness) ...
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(2009-05-15)This dissertation consists of three parts, each devoted to a particular issue of significant importance for satellite-based remote sensing of cirrus clouds. In the first part, we develop and present a fast infrared radiative ...
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(2011-08-08)This dissertation focuses on the challenge of soil hydraulic parameter scaling in soil hydrology and related applications in general; and, in particular, the upscaling of these parameters to provide effective values at ...
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(2011-10-21)A special challenge posed by mineral dust aerosols is associated with their predominantly nonspherical particle shapes. In the present study, the scattering and radiative properties for nonspherical mineral dust aerosols ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)The use of site-specific data can enhance management decisions in the field. Three different uses of site-specific data were evaluated and their outcomes are promising. Historical yield data from yield monitors and height ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)Cirrus clouds are known to play a key role in the earth's radiation budget, yet are one of the most uncertain components of the earth-atmosphere system. With the development of instruments such as the Airborne Visible/Infrared ...
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(2023-07-09)Retrievals utilized in ice cloud and mineral dust aerosol remote sensing contain uncertainties from both forward models and measurements. These uncertainties are present in the retrieval products and propagate to atmospheric ...
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(2019-07-18)Throughout 2011, the state of Texas, USA, experienced an extreme drought that broke statewide temperature and precipitations records, causing extensive tree mortality. No study comprehensively examined impacts to the heavily ...