Follow the launch of ESA's Sentinel-3A remote sensing system.

The Spring 2016 LCLUC science team meeting registration is now open. The meeting will take place in Rockville, MD and is open for current science team members, their collaborators, project partners, and alumni only. You can view the meeting information on our meetings page.

Landsat 8 Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) data continue to be collected with the scene select mirror encoder electronics disabled (mode 0). While in this mode, the TIRS line of sight model (LOS) will be regularly updated and modifications are being made to automate revisions to the LOS in the Level-1 Product Generation System (LPGS). Landsat 8 Operational Land Imagery (OLI) and TIRS data that have been collected through the 4th quarter of 2015 (October-December) will be reprocessed into nominal Level-1 products containing valid TIRS data, and will be available in February 2016.

The goal of SARI is to develop an innovative regional research, education, and capacity building program involving state-of-the-art remote sensing, natural sciences, engineering and social sciences to enrich Land Cover/Land Use Change (LCLUC) science in South/Southeast Asia. Our objectives are twofold. First, we aim to advance LCLUC science in the region. Second, we endeavor to strengthen existing and build new collaborations between US and South/Southeast Asia researchers in the areas of LCLUC research.

Deadline for abstract submission has been extended to the 8th of February 2016 ! For more information on the 2nd EARSeL SIG LU/LC and NASA LCLUC joint Workshop “Advancing horizons for land cover services entering the big data era” taking place in Prague on 6-7 May 2016, please go to https://web.natur.cuni.cz/gis/lucc/ If you have further questions regarding the workshop please contact the local organisers.

Feel free to contact the GOFC-GOLD Land Cover Offfice for any questions related to the content of the newsletter.

The Theia Land Data Centre 4th bulletin is now available. Topics covered in this issue include:

• Theia-Geosud seminar
• All Envi thematic knowledge exploitation programme
• Thematic Clusters
• National institutional remote sensing sector
• Investigating the water and carbon cycles

The bulletin can be downloaded in print version (4,1MB) or light version (921KB) from theia-land.fr. The Theia new bulletin is also available as flipbook on Theia Calameo platform.

Dear community: USAID PEER is a competitive grants program that invites scientists in developing countries to apply for funds to support research and capacity-building activities on topics with strong potential development impacts. Pre-proposals are due January 15, 2016. Because of your NASA-funded work, you may be contacted by PEER applicants who are interested in partnering with you to apply for this opportunity.

The NASA-ISRO Professional Engineer and Scientist Exchange Program (PESEP) is available for NASA-funded researchers interested in establishing interactions with ISRO researchers, leading to joint publications from analyses of ISRO, NASA and other satellite datasets.

The Alaska Satellite Facility now distributes the complete ESA Sentinel-1A SAR archive, by agreement between the U.S. State Department and the European Commission.