Whats New

The March Open Space webinar, Tracking Land-Use Change Over Time, is now available.
March 26, 2014

The webinar explored NASA's Land-Cover/Land-Use Change Program. The presentation included an overview of the program, followed by case studies highlighting urban, forest and...

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...

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...