Recent And Upcoming Missions And Data

	NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) March 11, 2011 NASA's new collaboration facility for the NASA Earth science community, called NASA Earth Exchange (NEX). NEX combines state-of-the-art supercomputing, Earth system modeling...
	Free availability of satellite imagery has boosted deforestation monitoring applications, but risk of data gap looms, Interview with Matt Hansen October 13, 2010 An interview with Dr. Matt Hansen, co-director of SDSU’s Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence
	U.S. losing trees faster than other heavily forested nations article featuring Matt Hansen October 1, 2010 The United States lost more than 46,000 square miles of forest in those years, a size roughly equivalent to the state of Pennsylvania. That's about 6% of the nation's...
	Keeping Carbon Underground article in the Washington Post featuring Olga Krankina May 13, 2010 Deforestation could hasten global warming, experts say. Scientists have discovered that Russia's ancient forests, the stuff of fairy tales, are also magnificent carbon...
	IU ecological anthropologist Moran elected to National Academy of Sciences May 13, 2010 Moran, both an IU Bloomington distinguished professor and the James H. Rudy Professor of Anthropology, is an internationally recognized ecological and environmental...
	Scientists uncover ecological impacts of invasive species using remote sensing April 14, 2010 Scientists used airborne remote sensing instruments, an imaging spectrometer and a lidar, to...