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Christopher J. Crawford
Researcher at United States Geological Survey
Publications - 26
Citations - 1135
Christopher J. Crawford is an academic researcher from United States Geological Survey. The author has contributed to research in topics: Snow & Remote sensing (archaeology). The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 23 publications receiving 591 citations. Previous affiliations of Christopher J. Crawford include University of Minnesota & University of Maryland, College Park.
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Current status of Landsat program, science, and applications
Michael A. Wulder,Thomas R. Loveland,David P. Roy,Christopher J. Crawford,Jeffrey G. Masek,Curtis E. Woodcock,Richard G. Allen,Martha C. Anderson,Alan Belward,Warren B. Cohen,John L. Dwyer,Angela Erb,Feng Gao,Patrick Griffiths,Dennis L. Helder,Txomin Hermosilla,Txomin Hermosilla,James D. Hipple,Patrick Hostert,M. Joseph Hughes,Justin L. Huntington,David M. Johnson,Robert E. Kennedy,Ayse Kilic,Zhan Li,Leo Lymburner,Joel McCorkel,Nima Pahlevan,Ted Scambos,Crystal B. Schaaf,John R. Schott,Yongwei Sheng,James C. Storey,Eric Vermote,James E. Vogelmann,Joanne C. White,Randolph H. Wynne,Zhe Zhu,Zhe Zhu +38 more
TL;DR: The programmatic developments and institutional context for the Landsat program and the unique ability of Landsat to meet the needs of national and international programs are described and the key trends in Landsat science are presented.
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Landsat 9: Empowering open science and applications through continuity
Jeffrey G. Masek,Michael A. Wulder,Brian L. Markham,Joel McCorkel,Christopher J. Crawford,James C. Storey,Del T. Jenstrom +6 more
TL;DR: Initial performance testing of OLI-2 and TIRS-2 indicate that the instruments are of excellent quality and expected to match or improve on Landsat 8 data quality.
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Fifty years of Landsat science and impacts
Michael A. Wulder,David P. Roy,Volker C. Radeloff,Thomas R. Loveland,Martha C. Anderson,David W. Johnson,Sean P. Healey,Zhe Zhu,Ted Scambos,Nima Pahlevan,Matthew C. Hansen,Noel Gorelick,Christopher J. Crawford,Jeffrey G. Masek,Txomin Hermosilla,Joanne C. White,Alan Belward,Crystal B. Schaaf,Curtis E. Woodcock,Justin L. Huntington,Leo Lymburner,Patrick Hostert,Feng Gao,Alexei Lyapustin,Jean-François Pekel,Peter Strobl,Bruce D. Cook +26 more
TL;DR: The early years of the Landsat program delivered a series of technological breakthroughs, pioneering new methods, and demonstrating the ability and capacity of digital satellite imagery, creating a template for other global Earth observation missions and programs as mentioned in this paper .
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Multitemporal snow cover mapping in mountainous terrain for Landsat climate data record development
TL;DR: In this article, a multitemporal method to map snow cover in mountainous terrain is proposed to guide Landsat climate data record (CDR) development for the interior northwestern United States.
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Dynamics, Variability, and Change in Seasonal Precipitation Reconstructions for North America
David W. Stahle,Edward R. Cook,Dorian J. Burnette,Max C.A. Torbenson,Ian Howard,Daniel Griffin,José Villanueva Díaz,Benjamin I. Cook,P. Williams,Emma Watson,David J. Sauchyn,Neil Pederson,Connie A. Woodhouse,Gregory T. Pederson,David M. Meko,Bethany Coulthard,Christopher J. Crawford +16 more
TL;DR: In this paper, cold and warm-season precipitation totals were reconstructed on a gridded basis for North America using 439 tree-ring chronologies correlated with December-to-April precipitation.