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Land-Use Change Webinar
February 24, 2014
The USDA Forest Service in partnership with Clemson University will be hosting a webinar showcasing NASA’s Land-Use/Land-Cover Change Program (LCLUC) program, exploring how time-tracking of land…
Mapping Forested Wetland Inundation with the Landsat Historic Record
February 19, 2014
Wetland areas in the Mid-Atlantic region are inundated or saturated for a relatively short period, usually in the spring after snowmelt and before leaf-out so monitoring the hydrologic condition…
France To Make Older Spot Images Available to Researchers for Free
January 30, 2014
PARIS — The French government has agreed to open its Spot optical Earth observation data archive and distribute, free of charge to noncommercial users, Spot satellite data that are at least five…
Landsat and LDCM Headlines 2014
January 29, 2014
On February 3, 2014, the entire Landsat 8 archive will be cleared from the online cache and reprocessed to take advantage of calibration improvements identified during its first year of operation…
NASA-USGS Landsat Data Yield Best View to Date of Global Forest Losses, Gains
January 23, 2014
The ravages of deforestation, wildfires, windstorms and insects on global forests during this century are revealed in unprecedented detail in a new study based on data from the NASA-U.S.…
High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change
January 23, 2014
Quantification of global forest change has been lacking despite the recognized importance of forest ecosystem services. In this study, Earth observation satellite data were used to map global…