Regional Initiatives

Important land-use questions related to global food supply, regional water resources, carbon sources and sinks, biodiversity loss and population growth, and the regional impacts of climate change, necessitate working in a number of different regions and results in a strong international flavor to the LCLUC program. The program emphasizes studies where land-use change is rapid or where there are significant regional or global implications. The program promotes collaboration with in-country scientists and regional science networks, increasing their accessibility to NASA spaceborne assets and helping NASA scientists analyze and understand the often complex local and regional issues and conditions.

In addition to individual regional research projects, LCLUC supports several large regional science campaigns and programs with an emphasis on land-use/cover change: