Burma Forest Cover, 1985 Source Landsat Pathfinder, University of New Hampshire. Published in Brunner, Jake, et al. 1998. Logging Burma s Frontier Forests Resources and the Regime http://multimedia.wri.org/burma/map_forestcover.cfm
Extractions: Note: Pathfinder is a U.S. multiagency project that uses high-resolution landsat data to map the world's tropical forests at three dates: 1973, 1985, and 1993. The 1973 and 1985 assessments used 57-m pixel Landsat Multi-spectral Scanner data. The 1993 assessment, which uses 30-m pixel Landsat Thematic Mapper data, is not complete. Further information is available online at http://www.pathfinder.sr.unh.edu Logging Burma's Frontier Forests: Resources and the Regime (Washington, DC: World Resources Institute). This posting does not use the adopted name "Myanmar," given to Burma by the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) in 1988. The name Burma is used in accordance with the Burmese National League for Democracy, the United States Government and many other countries, and leading publications including The Washington Post Bangkok Post The Nation , and The Far Eastern Economic Review
Remote Sensing Data (RDMS/UD) You can find information and pricing on the following programs Landsat, The Pathfinder program was jointly created by NASA and NOAA through the Earth http://www.rdms.udel.edu/rdms/main/rsdata.html
Extractions: Canadian Center for Remote Sensing (CCRS) The Canadian Center for Remote Sensing (CCRS) maintains a long history of involvement in all aspects of remote sensing operations. The CCRS site has nice descriptions of popular satellite programs, an image browser, and a searchable data catalog. They also provide access to several databases specific to the Canadian region. EROS Data Center at USGS The USGS EROS Data Center provides a huge number of data products, including millions of aerial photographs of the United States as well as images from several satellite programs. Much of this data is available in USGS DOQ and GeoTIFF format. Though most products carry along a price tag, a number of data products are available via ftp at no charge (this is the US GeoData series). Check out the USGS EROS Data Products List Eurimage Data Products The Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) A comprehensive directory of information about Earth science data, including broad coverage of the oceans, atmosphere, hydrosphere, solid earth, biosphere and human dimensions of global change. You can quickly search for data or add your own dataset to the archive. GVI - Global Monthly Vegetation Cover from NOAA/AVHRR (1985 - 1997) This is a sample (1985 data available online only) of the full 13-year dataset available on CD-ROM. A reprint of the insuing article and other documentation can be downloaded. Good information on NDVI imagery from AVHRR.
TES NEWS, V. 4, N.3, Scabland Part I I said, recalling a NASA diagram of Mars Pathfinder s landing. This is a Landsat image of the Channeled Scabland of Washington State. http://tes.asu.edu/TESNEWS/4_VOL/No_3/ken_jim_1.html
Extractions: TES NEWS, Volume 4, Number 3, August 1995 Excellent Adventure! ASU graduate student Jim Rice sitting on a columnar basalt boulder brought down near Ephrata, Washington, by the catastrophic Ice Age Missoula Floods. Will Mars Pathfinder see boulders like this? Photo by K. Edgett, June 12, 1995. by Ken Edgett, Arizona State University "There's going to be fireworks on Mars for July 4th in 1997," Matt Golombek told us while I was driving our rental car up a winding road just south of Spokane, Washington. "What do you mean, Matt?' Jim asked. Jim and Matt were sitting in the back of the car. Vic Baker was in the front passenger seat, examining topographic maps of the hills. He was looking for a good place to view the entire Spokane Valley, part of a giant channel system formed by catastrophic floods when Ice Age Lake Missoula burst through an ice dam and drained from northern Idaho, across central Washington, down the Columbia Gorge and to the Pacific. "Well, when it lands
WEB-LAB Module 14 Answer questions about Landsat monitoring of ecosystems According to the International Programs Center, US Bureau of the CensUS, the total population of http://www.umkc.edu/sites/env-sci/module14/weblab14.htm
Extractions: Changes in Land Use Objectives: Activities: Outline Ecosystem dynamics An ecosystem is a complex, self-regulating association of living plants and animals and their nonliving physical environment. Source of image: Forest Ecosystem Dynamics (FED) Project Changes in the patterns of land use and the monitoring of ecosystem has largely been accomplished on a global scale by analyzing data from the LANDSAT satellites. With the launch of the Landsat 1 in 1972, the Landsat program is the longest-running program of remote-sensing from space. It images the entire earth once in 16 days. The Landsat satellite carries a multispectral scanner (MSS) and starting with Landsat-4 in 1982, also a Thematic Mapper (TM). MSS and TM are instruments that measure electromagnetic radiation from the sun reflecting off the Earth. MSS data has a spatial resolution of about 80 m x 80 m, and measures the intensity of reflected light in four bands: green light, red light and two different wavelength bands of infrared. TM has more bands and a 30 m x 30 m resolution.
Extractions: Data Archives and Data Libraries Land Cover Digital Data Directory for the United States , maintained by the Environmental Protection Agency, contains reference information (i.e., "metadata") on four broad categories of land cover data sets: partial state coverage, full state coverage, multi-state coverage, and national coverage. All information in the land cover digital data directory are organized by state. You will search for data sets through this web site by state, but will be provided information that is either specific to that state or that state's portion of a national coverage. The Earth Observing System Data and Information System Information Management System allows you to search for, browse, and order earth science dataincluding land cover datafrom various participating archive centers around the globe. This free service provides easy access to both summary and detailed data product descriptions, as well as browse images and fully processed science data. The U.S.Geological Survey's
John Townshend Evidence to the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics of the US HoUSe of Another form of commercialization was the privatization of Landsat activities, http://www.house.gov/science/townshend_5-21.html
Extractions: Evidence to the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics of the US House of Representatives' Committee on Science Topic: Commercial Remote Sensing. Presented by John R. Townshend, University of Maryland College Park The testimony presented to the Sub-Committee relates to my views on the relevance of commercial remote sensing activities to the scientific community. Applications of remote sensing imagery to improve life on Earth. Remote sensing provides an increasingly important source of information about the Earth System and human activities within it. Satellite-based instruments have become more and more capable of detecting and monitoring properties of this system with increasing reliability. Moreover as the record of observations becomes longer and longer, so we gain a better understanding of how the Earth System is changing. Potential applications of these data are numerous including contributions to global change research, to weather and climate forecasting and to the monitoring and development of renewable and non-renewable resources. Improved understanding of the complex functioning of the Earth System is not merely an academic exercise. Changes in the Earth System, involving for example climate change, could have profound implications for forest, range and crop productivity. At shorter time horizons inter-annual variability may impact plant productivity and hydrology. In the longer term there is the potential for near "permanent" shifts in agricultural regions and on forest health.
Meteorology FAQ Part 3/7: Sources Of Research Data SAR images and derived data, AVHRR and Landsat satellite imagery. Available data includes SSM/I NOAA/NASA Pathfinder Products, TOVS NOAA/NASA Pathfinder http://www.faqs.org/faqs/meteorology/research-data/
Extractions: Help others by sharing your knowledge sci.geo.meteorology Subject: Meteorology FAQ Part 3/7: Sources of research data Reply-To: hcane@mobile.gulf.net Subject: 1) Table of contents 1) Table of contents 2) Overview 3) Multidisciplinary Data Centers 4) Climate and weather 5) Satellite data 6) Hydrology and glaciology 7) Environmental chemistry 8) Geophysical and mapping data 9) Instruments and field experiments 10) Oceanography 11) Miscellaneous data 12) Software and documentation Each (major) section has a "Subject:" line, so you can search on the subject title above to find the section quickly. Subject: 2) Overview Sites listed in this section contain sites with data other than just weather information. This includes map data, miscellaneous images, atmospheric and oceanographic research data, and software for use with meteorological data. Primary data centers are listed first, followed by sites which may have some data of that type but are not necessarily official data centers. Much of the research data is not free and is not directly available over the network; only metadata, or information about the data, is available, and you must place an order for the actual data. http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov
Extractions: Ecosystem Management Limits and Opportunities NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) does not engage in ecosystem management in the strictest sense. NASA does manage the lands incorporated within the 9 NASA Centers throughout the U.S. There is no broad policy or mission statement concerning ecosystem management. Programs and policies, for the most part, are developed by the individual field centers. NASA also conducts both basic and applied research relevant to ecosystem management. This research is directed toward understanding ecosystem processes, monitoring land cover, and understanding the impacts of NASA land usage (e.g., launches and testing of aerospace equipment) on their surrounding ecosystems. The MTPE program is developing a series of satellites to carry Earth remote sensing instruments that will not only advance the U.S. Global Change Research Program's goals and objectives centered around developing a predictive understanding of how the Earth functions as a system, but also provide the next generation of satellite observations for resource and ecosystem managers. They will provide continuity with past satellite data sets while improving data quality and calibration and will also offer completely new types of observations.
Amazon GIS - Related Links - http//glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/documents/pfinder.html The NASA Landsat Pathfinder Humid Tropical Deforestation Project is funded through a collaborative effort http://www.amazongis.org/links/amazonconservation.html
Extractions: Amazon Research http://www.inpa.gov.br/~pdbff/ BDFFP (formerly the Minimum Critical Size of Ecosystems) Project is a collaborative research effort headed by Brazil's National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA). The BDFFP, begun in 1979, is the only experimental study of the process of habitat fragmentation under way in the Amazon basin. http://boto.ocean.washington.edu/eos/ EOS Amazon Project at the University of Washington is a NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) Interdisciplinary Investigation. http://www.whrc.org/science/tropfor/tropfor.htm The Woods Hole Research Center Amazon Program has been working in the Brazilian Amazon since 1988 with a strategy combining basic research with education and training of local peoples in a problem solving approach to resource use. http://www.rain-tree.com/plants.htm
North American Landscape Characterization MSS Pathfinder Scenes North American Landscape Characterization Pathfinder MultiSpectral Scanner(MSS) Imagery Aeronautics and Space Administration Landsat Pathfinder Program. http://www.gis.uiuc.edu/mojave/mojave_baa/Pathfinder.html
Extractions: 1990's Mosaic: Mojave Desert, CA North American Landscape Characterization (NALC) is a component of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Landsat Pathfinder Program. The NALC project is designed to employ the use of historical and current Landsat satellite remote sensor measurements in order to study global processes. Global processes refer to the interactions among the Earth's atmosphere, water, and soils. In order to acess these global processes, NALC focuses on the characterization of land cover types (vegetation, soil, topography, and human features) and to the changes occurring to the land cover and landscape features over time.(source: North American Landscape Characterization, Research Brief, 1993. United States Environmental Protection Agency, EPA/600/S-93/0005). For a detailed description of the North American Landscape Characterization Project see the USGS Home Page Return to Mojave Page
Remote Sensing Data Sets For The Mojave Desert This mosaic though derived from Landsat Thematic Mapper was resampled to 100 x The Pathfinder data sets include three MSS frames of the same area for http://www.gis.uiuc.edu/mojave/mojave_baa/remote.htm
Extractions: Remote Sensing Data Sets for the Mojave Desert The first major task of the Disturbance Assessment by Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis for the Mojave initiative was to develop a comprehensive digital cartographic data base for the Mojave desert of southern California. This database includes both maps and a number of remotely-sensed image data types. Some of the remote sensing coverages completely enclose the boundary of the Mojave desert. These are typically regional scale coverages derived from a mosaic of many individual frames of Landsat Thematic Mapper or Landsat Multispectral Scanner imagery. One of these coverages was taken from the California GAP Analysis directory at the University of California at Santa Barbara. This mosaic though derived from Landsat Thematic Mapper was resampled to 100 x 100m pixels to preserve storage space. The individual scenes apparently come from a variety of dates and match lines along the mosaic are quite obvious due to color changes with time of the image. Another Landsat North American Landscape Characterization mosaic of the Mojave Desert, California
LTER/NASAMODLAND Workshop Report [text] Linked with the Pathfinder data sets are new acquisitions of LandsatTM data, known as the Landsat data grant . Bob Murphy gave an update on the 1992 http://lternet.edu/technology/nasa/modland.htm
Extractions: Please note that this text was gleaned from various discussions during and after the meeting. I have not attempted to list all the acronyms etc., and no member of the meeting has reviewed these notes, thus I take responsibility for any omissions or misinterpretations. Please feel free to contact me (jvc@lternet.edu) for clarifications or copies of this text. This text and the previously mentioned LTER/NASA report are available by anonymous ftp or gopher on the "LTERnet.edu" file server. Meeting Proceedings: Chris Justice of NASA/GSFC started the meeting with background and updates since the November LTER/NASA meeting at SEV. Handouts of MODLAND background, the instrument, its purpose etc. were given and discussed. Chris noted that a MODIS overhead set is available, although handouts of many of the overheads were distributed to meeting participants.
Extractions: Burger King NGO page, RAN Earth Observing System. Landsat Pathfinder Project extinction. Side effects Humid Tropical Forest Inventory Project. Humid Tropical Forest Inventory Project gold mining. Brazil Deforestation government, Brazil. Brazil Government Landsat Pathfinder Project. Landsat Pathfinder Project Humid Tropical Forest Inventory Project life-history traits. Tropics Facts logging. Side effects Finlandia Deforestation Mahogany NGO page, Greenpeace Mission to Planet Earth. Landsat Pathfinder Project NASA. Landsat Pathfinder Project Humid Tropical Forest Inventory Project Netherlands, the NGO page, Greenpeace river system. Species Facts Shell boycott NGO page, Sierra Club Solomon Islands. NGO page, Greenpeace species identification. Species Facts timber management unit. Finlandia Deforestation U.S. Forest Service. Side effects Return to Homepage
HTFIP.htm NASA Landsat Pathfinder Humid Tropical Forest Inventory Project (HTFIP). Available at. http//www.bsrsi.msu.edu/trfic/index.html. Data reference http://www.gofc-gold.uni-jena.de/sites/data/htfip.htm
Extractions: Available at: http://www.bsrsi.msu.edu/trfic/index.html Data reference: Tropical Rain Forest Information Center (TRFIC) Year: 1970s to 1990s Available data products: 3-epoch forest/non-forest data set showing areas of deforestation in the moist tropical forest regions (i.e. the Amazon, Central Africa, and Southeast Asia Digital archive of Landsat satellite remote sensing data for the entire region Objective: Quantification and mapping of the rate of deforestation in the tropics Calculation and analysis of the net annual exchange of carbon between tropical ecosystems and the atmosphere from deforestation, reforestation, and degradation using a large- scale, geographically-referenced carbon model Classification system: Differentiation in water, cloud, cloud shadow, forest, secondary growth forest, deforestation and cerrado Remote sensing data: Landsat MSS/TM (mid 1970s, mid 1980s, and early 1990s; acquired in Amazon, Central Africa, and Southeast Asia Interpretation process: Analysis follows a hybrid methodology based on digital image processing and visual interpretation of color photoproducts Classification is based on a series of thresholds used to isolate each class. In general, visible bands are used to discriminate between forest and non-forest, whereas, the near infrared bands are used to separate forest from early secondary growth forests
Characterization Of The Ecological Integrity | NRCS GLTI We are USing 27 years of wet and dry season Landsat satellite imagery from (1972 to US Geological Survey, 1993, US GeoData digital elevation model, http://www.glti.nrcs.usda.gov/projects/range-health-workshop/wash-all.html
Extractions: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Laboratory, 2081 E. Sierra Avenue, Fresno, California 93710. We are using 27 years of wet and dry season Landsat satellite imagery from (1972 to 1998); a Geographic Information System ( GIS ) digital database of site biological, physical, and administrative characteristics and analysis tools; historical and current ranch management records; and a multiple-time by nested multiple-scale experimental design to establish causal links between possible threshold response of ecological indicators diagnostic of land degradation and human management interventions in order to assess the ecological integrity of ecosystems within a semi-arid landscape subject to commercial livestock grazing (Fig. 1). Range scientists define rangeland degradation as: (1) a change in plant species composition, e.g., an increase in low quality forage species compared with high quality forage; (2) a decrease in plant productivity; (3) a reduction in soil quality; (4) accelerated soil erosion (Pickup 1989, Behnke and Scoones 1993); and a change in landscape composition and pattern that affect ecosystem functions. We view ecological terminology such as landscape and ecosystem as spatio-temporal scale-independent criteria (
IIC Forest Information Remote Sensing Landsat Landsat MSS and TM scenes are digital images, like pictures from digital cameras. the Landsat MSS and Landsat TM online USer guides published by the US http://www.iic.state.mn.us/finfo/land/landsat2.htm
Extractions: Read more than 3,000 books online FREE! More than 900 PDFs now available for sale HOME ABOUT NAP CONTACT NAP HELP ... ORDERING INFO Items in cart [0] TRY OUR SPECIAL DISCOVERY ENGINE Questions? Call 888-624-8373 Enhancing NASA's Contributions to Polar Science: A Review of Polar Geophysical Data Sets (2001) Openbook Linked Table of Contents Front Matter, pp. i-xiv Executive Summary, pp. 1-14 1. Introduction, pp. 15-20 2. Overview of NASA Data Sets, pp. 21-43 3. Science -Driving Questions: The Polar Regions in the Cont..., pp. 44-71 4. Assessment, pp. 72-94 5. Conclusions and Recommendations, pp. 95-103 References, pp. 104-106 Appendix A: Acronyms and Initialisms, pp. 107-110 Appendix B: Data Sets Survey, pp. 111-120 Appendix C: Biosketches of the Committee's Members, pp. 121-124 GO TO PAGE:
Space Technology Research Links Introduction and technical information on Landsat 7, the new land use Mars Pathfinder Mission home page and current photos from the surface of Mars. http://henry.pha.jhu.edu/ssip/techlink.html
Extractions: Apollo Missions Apollo 11 - 25 years later Story and pictures of the Apollo 11 mission, the first in which man walked on the moon. Apollo to the Moon (1968 - 1972) Information on the Apollo Moon missions, from Apollo 7 to Apollo 17. Lunar Exploration Information on moon exploration, including the Apollo manned missions to the moon. Project Apollo Kennedy Space Center Apollo project home page Communication Satellites ACTS Home Page Advanced Communication Technology Satellite home page. Information is technical, but may be useful. Communications Satellites Short History History of communication satellites. CTD Home Page Lewis research center Communications Technology Division home page. Includes some information and links related to communications satellites. NASA Experimental Communications Satellites 1958-1995 Descritpions of NASA communication satellites, including pictures and illustrations. Spacelink - Early Communications Satellites Description of some of the early communications satellites. Galileo Galileo Home Page (JPL) Jet Propulsion Laboratory's home page for the Galileo Jupiter probe mission.
Extractions: This appendix contains a representative listing of global change research data products made available for the first time in 1997 by USGCRP agencies: DOC/NOAA Daily temperature and precipitation for North America ISCCP Level B2 data for NOAA-12 and NOAA-14 satellites OACES data sets from shipboard CO observations Continental-Scale International Project data from the 1995 and 1996 enhanced seasonal observing periods Data set for U.S. precipitation intensity and frequency for the past 100 years
Extractions: Introduction Data for a land-use/cover change programme will come from a variety of physical and social science sources. This interdisciplinary programme will require close cooperation between the IGBP and HDP Data and Information Systems Offices. Some of the required datasets can be defined now, and these have been described in the sections below; most, however, cannot, so the issue at hand is the development of the process by which these datasets can be defined and acquired. The first step will be to cultivate collaborative working relations between HDP-DIS and IGBP-DIS. Many of the datasets being developed now by IGBP-DIS will be important for the LUCC programme. The scientific rationale for these datasets, however, has been defined largely by physical and biological requirements; for these datasets to be fully useful, some integration and augmentation with social science data will be required. The integration of social-science datasets with physical-science datasets is seen as a crucial step in the development of data for LUCC. For instance, in the sections below, the need is articulated for a land-use dataset. This kind of data could possibly be developed using the AVHRR 1 km dataset being developed by IGBP-DIS, but it will also be necessary to integrate with the remote-sensing data other sources of information on land tenure, land management and other factors which will define land use as opposed to land cover. Moreover, it is likely that sharing of data between IGBP-DIS and HDP-DIS will be necessary. The implementation of some formal mechanism for data exchange and collaboration in the development of datasets is therefore necessary.
