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	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...
	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...
	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...
	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...
	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...
	GLP: Data Visualization Challenge January 22, 2014 GLP welcomes entries to the Data Visualization Challenge in Land Systems Science, to be held in conjunction with the GLP-OSM 2014. The purpose of the challenge is to...