Opening the archive: How free data has enabled the science and monitoring promise of Landsat

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 122, Issue , 2012, Pages 2-10

  Wulder, Michael A ^a   Masek, Jeffrey G ^b   Cohen, Warren B ^c   Loveland, Thomas R ^d   Woodcock, Curtis E ^e  

^a PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Applications; Archive; Landsat; Mapping; Monitoring; Policy; Science

Indexed keywords

ARCHIVE; CONTINUOUS OBSERVATION; DATA ACCESS; DATA ARCHIVES; EARTH OBSERVATION SATELLITES; EARTH OBSERVING; ECOLOGICAL CHANGES; GLOBAL MONITORING; IMAGE ARCHIVES; INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; NEW SCIENCE; ROBUST ENGINEERING; SCIENCE; STANDARD PRODUCTS; TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS;

APPLICATIONS; MAPPING; MONITORING; PUBLIC POLICY; REMOTE SENSING; SOILS;

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION;

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; POLICY APPROACH; RESEARCH PROGRAM; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 84865430209     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.01.010     Document Type: Article

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