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Compton J. Tucker
Senior Biospheric Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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Historical Rainfall Anomalies as a Proxy for Geographic Patterns of Rift Valley Fever Activity
EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE BASED ON CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABILITY II POSTER
geohealth | 14 december 2023
Karlyn Harrod, Assaf Anyamba, Heidi Tubbs, Kenneth...
Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a zoonotic crossover pathogen affecting livestock and human populations. Outbreaks of RVF are associated with periods of pe...
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FluxSat: Long-term Earth Science Data Record (ESDR) for Terrestrial Gross Primary Production (GPP) based on satellite data calibrated with eddy covariance data
SURFACE-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS: INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN EDDY COVARIANCE AND REMOTE SENSING II ORAL
biogeosciences | 14 december 2023
Joanna Joiner, Brian F. Bennett, Yasuko Yoshida, J...
Gross primary production (GPP), the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) assimilated by plants through photosynthesis, is one of the most variable and uncer...
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Semi-Arid Carbon for Individual Trees in Sub-Saharan Africa North of the Equator
ADVANCES IN LAND COVER AND LAND USE CHANGES: DATA PRODUCTS, DRIVING FACTORS, AND IMPACTS I ORAL
biogeosciences | 12 december 2023
Compton J. Tucker
We recently mapped 15 billion tree and bush crowns derived from more than 326,000 commercial satellite images, covering semi-arid sub-Saharan Africa n...
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Tropical Impact crater diameters elaborated with PlanetScope stereo retrievals and ICESat-2 data tracks
COMMERCIAL EARTH OBSERVATION DATA: RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS I ORAL
earth and space science informatics | 15 december 2022
Compton J. Tucker
Commercial satellite elevation retrievals are routinely provided for many areas on the Earth surface at the 2 m scale but can be lacking from cloudy, ...
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Sub-meter commercial satellite data for semi-arid tree carbon restoration
COMMERCIAL EARTH OBSERVATION DATA: RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS I ORAL
earth and space science informatics | 15 december 2022
Compton J. Tucker
We report recent progress mapping large numbers of tree crowns at the 50 cm scale and converting these into tree carbon using Maxar imagery in the Sah...
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Millions of Termite Mounds Enhance Herbaceous Productivity and Hinder Woody Productivity in West African Savannas
ADVANCES IN REMOTE SENSING FOR MONITORING BIODIVERSITY CHANGE: INTEGRATING DATA AND MODELS ACROSS SCALES AND TECHNOLOGIES IV ORAL
biogeosciences | 12 december 2022
Brianna M M. Lind, Martin Brandt, Compton J. Tucke...
Large bare termite mounds have enormous potential to redistribute water in West African savannas where rainfall occurs at high intensity during a shor...
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Counting trees in African drylands
ADVANCES IN MACHINE LEARNING AND DEEP LEARNING FOR MONITORING TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS I ORAL
biogeosciences | 17 december 2021
Compton J. Tucker, Martin Brandt
A large proportion of dryland trees and shrubs grow in isolation, without canopy closure. These dryland trees and their carbon stocks have high uncert...
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Trees outside forests in global drylands
PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF WATER-LIMITED DRYLAND ECOSYSTEMS: LOCAL TRENDS TO GLOBAL IMPACTS II POSTER
biogeosciences | 17 december 2021
Martin Brandt, Compton J. Tucker, Florian Reiner, ...
Mitigating climate change while securing livelihoods is a major societal challenge in the 21st century. In this context, trees and shrubs (hereafter c...
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