Welcome to the NASA Land-Cover and Land-Use Change (LCLUC) Program website. LCLUC is an interdisciplinary science program in the Earth Science Division of the Science Mission Directorate. LCLUC is part of the Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Focus Area but has strong links to the Terrestrial Hydrology program of the Water and Energy Cycle Focus Area.

•  Just Released: The Global Geo-Referenced Field Photo Library, developed at the Earth Observation and Modeling Facility of University of Oklahoma, offers the capacity for users to upload, query (by themes and geographically), and download geo-referenced field photos in the library. Read More
• 24th International Congress for Conservation Biology: Conservation for a Changing Planet (ICCB 2010), July 3-7. 2010 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
• Outcomes from the Workshop on Land Use/Land Cover Change and the Carbon Cycle, June, 2009 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• Call for Abstracts: Annual AAG Meeting, Washington DC, April 14-18, 2010. Session on Geospatial methods and applications for biodiversity monitoring and conservation. Deadline for abstract submission is October 28, 2009.
• ROSES 2009: Amendment 12, Appendix A.2 explaining an emphasis on agricultural and urban land-cover land-use change.
• Call for Papers: Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing (CJRS) special issue on the “Utilization of Terrestrial Reference Standard Test Sites to Monitor the Post-Launch Calibration Performance of Space-Based Imaging Sensors”. deadline for submission is January 31, 2010, with a target publishing date of early 2011
• New Global Land/Water Mask Released, and can be found at WIST by MODIS/Terra Land Water Mask Derived from MODIS and SRTM L3 Global 250m
• Coming Soon: Stitched continental mosaics to be released through the Global Land Cover Facility
• Editorial line-up preview for the PE&RS August special issue on change analysis
• Article on Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites (ARCTAS) by LCLUC PI Amber Soja
• NASA and USGS are pleased to announce that the Global Land Survey (GLS) 2005 dataset is now essentially complete and can be downloaded from GLOVIS. 140 images remain to be added over Indonesia and Brazil.
• CEOS released the Land Surface Imaging Constellation Portal for Mid-resolution Optical Land Surface Imaging (LSI) Satellite Information and Enhanced Data Access
• NSF announces enhanced support for interdisciplinary research using multi-scale modeling
• View the new LCLUC Program brochure
• NASA Fire Science webpage announced

• Job and Fellowship Opportunities - last updated September 29, 2009
• Events Calendar - last updated October 1, 2009