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	Global Geo-Referenced Field Photo Library December 12, 2012 A picture is worth a thousand words. Geo-referenced field photos, taken from GPS cameras and smartphones, are even better, as they document location-specific observations of...
	Congratulations to the ROSES-2011 Land-Cover/Land-Use Change for Early Career Scientists Awardees October 12, 2012 This synopsis is for the Land-Cover and Land-Use Change (LCLUC) part of the NASA Research Announcement (NRA) ROSES-2011 NNH11ZDA001N-LCLUC. This NRA offered opportunities...
	Meiyappan, P., and Jain, A. K. (2012), ‘Three distinct global estimates of historical land-cover change and land-use conversions for over 200 years’, Frontiers of Earth Science, 6(2), 122-139. October 1, 2012 The historical land cover maps for about 200 years describe annual historical changes in land cover and underlying land-use conversions at 0.5 °x0.5 ° resolution. Three...
	Congratulations to the Landsat Calibration Team for receiving The HOBI Scientific Achievement award from the Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Branch at the Goddard Space Flight Facility September 5, 2012 The HOBI Award for Scientific Achievement was presented to the Landsat Calibration Team on August 28, 2012 at NASA Goddard
	40 Years of Landsat Satellites talk August 13, 2012 For forty years, Landsat has protected and enhanced our quality of life by tracking changes on the Earth's surface over time, creating a vast global database of land images...
	Global Urbanization theme (AAG 2013 ) August 13, 2012 Unprecedented rates of urban change in Asia and Africa raise many questions about the urbanization of the global South, global processes, and policy agendas. A featured...