The Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE 2013) organized by the Technical Committees of the joint workshop on 'Remote sensing and data fusion over urban areas' (URBAN) and the workshop on 'Remote sensing of urban and suburban areas' (URS) will be held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, from April 21- 23, 2013. Submission of extended abstracts is due October 15th, 2012. Detailed information about the meeting and the online submission system available at conference website (www.inpe.br/jurse2013)

At the request of the U.S. Geological Survey and National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Research Council is conducting a study to review the present status of spatially explicit land-change modeling approaches and describe future data and research needs so that model outputs can better assist the science, policy, and decision-support communities.

The Center of Geospatial Analysis, the Geology Department, and the Government Department are pleased to announce a new postdoctoral fellowship, supported by the Mellon teach-scholar training program.

China’s economic miracle and the unprecedented pace of urbanization in the past three decades have substantially changed the life of urban Chinese. Increasingly people live in luxury real estates with club house, swimming pool and other facilities. In just a few years, the percentage of private car ownership has soared to a double-digit level in major cities and car has become a major transport mode in people’s daily life. As a result of the increasing mobility, among other factors, individuals’ life space has expanded considerably and people’s life style has also diversified.

The conversion of Earth's land surface to urban uses is one of the most irreversible human impacts on the global biosphere. It drives the loss of farmland, affects local climate, fragments habitats, and threatens biodiversity. Here we present a meta-analysis of 326 studies that have used remotely sensed images to map urban land conversion. We report a worldwide observed increase in urban land area of 58,000 km2 from 1970 to 2000. India, China, and Africa have experienced the highest rates of urban land expansion, and the largest change in total urban extent has occurred in North America.

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The Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS)-NC is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Scholar to work in Asheville, NC to Support NC State University’s North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies (NCICS) and NOAA’s NCDC land surface temperature validation effort – validation of the Land SurfaceTemperature (LST) product derived from the Visible/Infrared imager Radiometric Suite (VIIRS) onboard NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) and Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) satellites for a 2-3 year period.

Find information on Landsat initiatives including the LDCM.