Creating the Tamarisk Habitat Suitability Map (for General Use)
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.
This animation depicts Annual Vegetation Cycle data and Landcover Classification data combining to derive a Tamarisk Likely Habitat Map.
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.
The Tamarisk Habitat Suitability Map.
Habitat Suitability colorbar
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animators
- Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
- Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC)
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
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Visualizer
- Cindy Starr (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Scientists
- Jeffrey Morisette (NASA/GSFC)
- Jeff Pedelty (NASA/GSFC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Wednesday, February 15, 2006.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:55 PM EDT.
Series
This visualization can be found in the following series:Datasets used in this visualization
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[Aqua: MODIS]
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[Landsat-7: ETM+]
ID: 55This dataset can be found at: http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/wrs.html
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[Terra: MODIS]
ID: 116 -
NDVI [NOAA: AVHRR]
ID: 426 -
Tamarisk Suitability
ID: 555J. Morisette, et al., includes data from NASA's Terra, Aqua, and Earth Observing-1 satellites, and the USGS Landsat satellites.
This dataset can be found at: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/invasive_species.html
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Land Cover [Terra and Aqua: MODIS]
ID: 556
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