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Gallant AL, Sadinski W, Brown JF, et al. Challenges in Complementing Data from Ground-Based Sensors with Satellite-Derived Products to Measure Ecological Changes in Relation to Climate-Lessons from Temperate Wetland-Upland Landscapes. Sensors (Basel). 2018;18(3)doi: 10.3390/s18030880.
Gallant, A. L., Sadinski, W., Brown, J. F., Senay, G. B., & Roth, M. F. (2018). Challenges in Complementing Data from Ground-Based Sensors with Satellite-Derived Products to Measure Ecological Changes in Relation to Climate-Lessons from Temperate Wetland-Upland Landscapes. Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 18(3), . https://doi.org/10.3390/s18030880
Gallant, Alisa L, et al. "Challenges in Complementing Data from Ground-Based Sensors with Satellite-Derived Products to Measure Ecological Changes in Relation to Climate-Lessons from Temperate Wetland-Upland Landscapes." Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) vol. 18,3 (2018). doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/s18030880
Gallant AL, Sadinski W, Brown JF, Senay GB, Roth MF. Challenges in Complementing Data from Ground-Based Sensors with Satellite-Derived Products to Measure Ecological Changes in Relation to Climate-Lessons from Temperate Wetland-Upland Landscapes. Sensors (Basel). 2018 Mar 16;18(3). doi: 10.3390/s18030880. PMID: 29547531; PMCID: PMC5876606.
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Sensors (Basel). 2018 Mar 16;18(3). doi: 10.3390/s18030880.

Challenges in Complementing Data from Ground-Based Sensors with Satellite-Derived Products to Measure Ecological Changes in Relation to Climate-Lessons from Temperate Wetland-Upland Landscapes.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)

Alisa L Gallant, Walt Sadinski, Jesslyn F Brown, Gabriel B Senay, Mark F Roth

Affiliations

  1. Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, US Geological Survey, 47914 252nd Street, Sioux Falls, SD 57198, USA. [email protected].
  2. Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, US Geological Survey, 2630 Fanta Reed Road, La Crosse, WI 54603, USA. [email protected].
  3. Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, US Geological Survey, 47914 252nd Street, Sioux Falls, SD 57198, USA. [email protected].
  4. Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, US Geological Survey, 47914 252nd Street, Sioux Falls, SD 57198, USA. [email protected].
  5. Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, US Geological Survey, 2630 Fanta Reed Road, La Crosse, WI 54603, USA. [email protected].

PMID: 29547531 PMCID: PMC5876606 DOI: 10.3390/s18030880

Abstract

Assessing climate-related ecological changes across spatiotemporal scales meaningful to resource managers is challenging because no one method reliably produces essential data at both fine and broad scales. We recently confronted such challenges while integrating data from ground- and satellite-based sensors for an assessment of four wetland-rich study areas in the U.S. Midwest. We examined relations between temperature and precipitation and a set of variables measured on the ground at individual wetlands and another set measured via satellite sensors within surrounding 4 km² landscape blocks. At the block scale, we used evapotranspiration and vegetation greenness as remotely sensed proxies for water availability and to estimate seasonal photosynthetic activity. We used sensors on the ground to coincidentally measure surface-water availability and amphibian calling activity at individual wetlands within blocks. Responses of landscape blocks generally paralleled changes in conditions measured on the ground, but the latter were more dynamic, and changes in ecological conditions on the ground that were critical for biota were not always apparent in measurements of related parameters in blocks. Here, we evaluate the effectiveness of decisions and assumptions we made in applying the remotely sensed data for the assessment and the value of integrating observations across scales, sensors, and disciplines.

Keywords: Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS); Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI); climate; evapotranspiration; growing season; scale; snow-off; start-of-season; water; wetland landscapes

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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