Examples of How Landsat Supports Great Lakes Restoration
WEBJul 9, 2021 · Here’s a look at a couple of Great Lakes problems that use Landsat as a monitoring tool: the nuisance Cladophora, or benthic green algae, and Kowalski’s work with the invasive plant Phragmites, or common reed.
Eyes on Earth Episode 57 – Landsat and the Great Lakes
WEBThe Great Lakes Basin supports more than 30 million people in the U.S. and Canada and 3,500 plant and animal species. The region faces threats that range from climate change and invasive species to pollution and development.
Eyes on Earth Episode 57 – Landsat and the Great Lakes
WEBAug 23, 2021 · The Great Lakes represent roughly 20% of the surface fresh water in the world and 90% in the United States. More than 3,500 plant and animal species inhabit the Great Lake Basin's open water tributaries, wetlands, forests, and dunes.
First Images from Landsat 9: Detroit and Lake Erie - NASA
WEBNov 5, 2021 · The Great Lakes serve as sources of freshwater, recreational activity, transport, and habitat for the upper-midwestern US, and water quality remains a high priority. Sediments swirl in Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair in this Landsat 9 image of both Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, from Oct. 31, 2021.
Landsat Helps Inform Restoration Decisions in the Great Lakes
WEBDec 14, 2015 · For the past several years, the USDA Forest Service has engaged in a comprehensive assessment of the character and trends of landscapes in watersheds draining into the Great Lakes as a means of prioritizing agency investments targeting nutrient and sediment reductions.
WEBAs the only State touching four of the five Great Lakes—Michigan, Superior, Huron, and Erie—it claims the longest fresh-water coastline in the United States. Yet Michigan is not just about water—forests, agriculture, mines, cities, and even sand dunes stretch across the State’s landscape.
Landsat Image Gallery - Lake Erie Astir - NASA
WEBWhile farmlands and forests onshore create spring and summer color, the Great Lakes have their own ways of painting seasonal pictures. Rich with quartz sand and silt, chalky limestone, and abundant phytoplankton, Lake Erie …
Landsat Image Gallery - Wild Swings in Great Lakes Ice
WEBThe 2020-2021 winter season fit that profile, as wild swings in the weather took Great Lakes ice on a wild ride. The highs and lows are visible in the natural-color images above, acquired with the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite …
The Great Lakes region and Mid-Atlantic United States - NASA
WEBMay 28, 2002 · The Great Lakes region and Mid-Atlantic United States. This true-color MODIS image from May 22, 2002, shows all five of the Great Lakes of the United States and Canada: (from top left to right) Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario.
Forty Years of Wetland Status and Trends Analyses in the Great Lakes ...
WEBAug 6, 2022 · In this study, the historical Landsat archive was first employed in Google Earth Engine (GEE) to classify wetlands (i.e., Bog, Fen, Swamp, Marsh) and non-wetlands (i.e., Open Water, Barren, Forest, Grassland/Shrubland, Cropland) throughout the entire Great Lakes basin over the past four decades.
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