Benefits of the free and open Landsat data policy

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 224, Issue , 2019, Pages 382-385

  Zhu, Zhe ^a   Wulder, Michael A ^b   Roy, David P ^c   Woodcock, Curtis E ^d   Hansen, Matthew C ^e   Radeloff, Volker C ^f   Healey, Sean P ^g   Schaaf, Crystal ^h   Hostert, Patrick ⁱ   Strobl, Peter ^j   Pekel, Jean Francois ^j   Lymburner, Leo ^k   Pahlevan, Nima ^l   Scambos, Ted A ^m  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^g ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

ⁱ HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^j JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^k GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^l SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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Author keywords

Land change; Land cover; Land use; Open access; Open data; Policy

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); LAND USE; OBSERVATORIES; OPEN ACCESS; PUBLIC POLICY;

EARTH OBSERVATION DATA; EARTH OBSERVATION SATELLITES; FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS; LAND CHANGES; LAND COVER; LANDSAT IMAGERY; OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS; UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS;

OPEN DATA;

CIVIL SOCIETY; EOS; FEDERAL SYSTEM; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; POLICY ANALYSIS; PRIVATE SECTOR; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 85062036162     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2019.02.016     Document Type: Article

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