Pathfinder The Landsat Pathfinder Science Working Group has defined several projects to address theEnvironmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Geological Survey http://edc.usgs.gov/landdaac/pathfinder/pathpage.html
Extractions: Your browser is not JavaScript-enabled, these buttons will not work. Your browser is not JavaScript-enabled, These buttons will not work. The goal of the Landsat Pathfinder Program is to establish long-term, medium- to high-resolution data sets for particular regional and global applications to global change research. The Landsat Pathfinder Science Working Group has defined several projects to address land cover change. The Humid Tropical Forest Project (HTFP) is generating a 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). For background information on HTFP data, please see the Tropical Rain Forest Information Center (TRFIC) at Michigan State University. The TRFIC is a NASA Earth Science Information Partner (ESIP). The North American Landscape Characterization (NALC) project is a collaborative effort between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to provide complete coverage of the conterminous U.S. and Mexico for the purposes of mapping land cover and land cover change.
Pathfinder Digital Cartographic and Satellite Data Archives The goal of the Landsat Pathfinder Program is to establish longterm, medium- to high-resolution data sets Help/FAQ/Edu. Links. Contact US. This site is hosted by the http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/landdaac/pathfinder/pathpage.html
Extractions: Your browser is not JavaScript-enabled, these buttons will not work. Your browser is not JavaScript-enabled, These buttons will not work. The goal of the Landsat Pathfinder Program is to establish long-term, medium- to high-resolution data sets for particular regional and global applications to global change research. The Landsat Pathfinder Science Working Group has defined several projects to address land cover change. The Humid Tropical Forest Project (HTFP) is generating a 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). For background information on HTFP data, please see the Tropical Rain Forest Information Center (TRFIC) at Michigan State University. The TRFIC is a NASA Earth Science Information Partner (ESIP). The North American Landscape Characterization (NALC) project is a collaborative effort between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to provide complete coverage of the conterminous U.S. and Mexico for the purposes of mapping land cover and land cover change.
Landsat Pathfinder Currently, the data purchase and processing costs of the Landsat Pathfinder DataSet are funded principally by US Government agencies, including the National http://www.ciesin.org/TG/RS/landsat.html
Extractions: CIESIN Thematic Guides NASA initiated the Landsat Pathfinder data set in 1991, with the intent of reconfiguring selected portions of the global Landsat data archive to optimize use of Landsat data for global change research. The historical archive consists of 21 years of Landsat Multispectral Scanner (MSS) data at a spatial resolution of 80 meters, and 11 years of Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) data at a spatial resolution of 30 meters. The Landsat Pathfinder Program Definition Phase Report [not yet available] provides a complete description of the Landsat Pathfinder concept and component activities (publication expected late 1994). The Landsat Pathfinder data set currently includes three component efforts. The first is the Humid Tropical Forest Inventory Project , which is associated with developing a complete three-epoch, consistently processed Landsat database for the humid, tropical forests of the Amazon Basin, Central Africa, and Southeast Asia. The three epochs are generally the early- to mid-1970s, mid-1980s, and the early 1990s. For each epoch, a set of Landsat scenes will be selected on the basis of minimal cloud cover and acceptable data quality to provide complete coverage of the humid, tropical forest regions. This data set is intended for evaluation of the rate and extent of tropical deforestation. The second effort is the North American Land Characterization (NALC) Project, which will bring together three epochs of historical Landsat MSS data in a standard configuration for much of the land surface of the North American continent, according to the Environmental Protection Agency research brief (1993)
LP DAAC Data Products sensing provides the best source of information. Landsat, Spot, and other sensors can be used to develop We began with 210 Landsat Thematic Mapper images for the entire Legal http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/dataproducts.html
Extractions: Reproduced, with permission, from: Frank G.Sadowski, F. G., N. Roller, and J. E. Colwell. 1993. The benefits of the Landsat Pathfinder Program for social science needs in global change research. In Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change , 285-93. Vol. 2. Ann Arbor, MI: Environmental Research Institute of Michigan. Sadowski Norm Roller John E. Colwell Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM) Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) ABSTRACT Successful implementation of studies addressing the human dimensions of global change will pose major conceptual and methodological challenges for the social sciences. The Landsat Pathfinder Program will offer significant benefits for meeting the challenges facing social scientists studying global change. The benefits include: (1) assisting the development and implementation of a global perspective for research; (2) aiding the coordination of interdisciplinary research; and (3) aiding the longitudinal studies of global environmental change. INTRODUCTION There is increasing awareness that the collective actions of humanity are capable of affecting the Earth system and its processes. Humanity, in turn, is capable of being affected by changes in the Earth system induced by these effects. The nature of humanity's actions at different levels in society (local, national, and international) and in the fabric of society (for example, its social, economic, and political structures and institutions) comprise what are commonly referred to as the human dimensions of global change.
USGS Landsat Project University of New Hampshire NASA Landsat Pathfinder Satellite Image Browser of Southeast Asia http// amazon. US Department of Transportation. US Fish and Wildlife Service http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/l7dhf/L7MMO/L7_website_map.html
Extractions: Advances Deforestation Mapping By Walter Chomentowski, Bill Salas , and David Skole . Chomentowski and Salas are research scientists and Skole is an assistant professor with the University of New Hampshire Complex Systems Research Center, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Morse Hall, Durham, NH 03824-3525, USA. The Landsat Pathfinder project is demonstrating the use of Landsat data for global change research and monitoring the world's forest resources. One of the five Pathfinder projects initiated by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Landsat Pathfinder is a first step toward establishing a global monitoring system using high-resolution satellite imagery. The imagery will be stored, managed and analyzed with a GIS. Pathfinder is part of NASA's response to the requirements of the U.S. Global Change Research Programthe centerpiece of which is the Earth Observing System (EOS) satellite series. Scheduled to begin operation in 1998, EOS will transmit as much as two terabytes (2,000 gigabytes) of Earth data each day. Pathfinder's mission is to explore the data needs of scientists studying global change and prepare for the massive EOS data stream. Some researchers estimate the global deforestation rate has more than doubled since the early 1980's; others say it has increased by only 50 percent. The Landsat Pathfinder project will help scientists better quantify estimates of land use/land cover change in the world's tropical forests. Above, the project's study area is shown in red. The Amazon/Orinoco river basins, central Africa and southeast Asia contain 75 percent of the world's tropical forest.
Landsat Links What Are Some Projects or Efforts That USe Landsat Data? Pathfinder / Tropical Rainforest. Glaciers and Ice sheets if you have a Landsat related page, send US the address and we http://ls7pm3.gsfc.nasa.gov/links.html
Extractions: Deforestation in Amazonia D. L. Skole is an associate professor and W. H. Chomentowski and W. A. Salas are research scientists at the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824. A. D. Nobre is a scientist at the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Amazonas, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. Tropical deforestation is an important component of global change; it has a large influence on hydrology, climate, and global biogeochemical cycles (Crutzen and Andreae 1990, Houghton 1991, Houghton and Skole 1990, Salati and Vose 1984, Shukla et al. 1990). The Brazilian Amazon region is the largest intact tropical forest in the world. Brazil has the highest deforestation rate in the world, according to some estimates; deforestation rates may be 1.5 - 2.0 x 10(6) ha/yr (FAO 1993, Myers 1991, Skole and Tucker, 1993). Understanding of tropical deforestation, an important aspect of global change, is inadequate for two reasons: a lack of accurate measurements of its rate, geographic extent, and spatial pattern and a lack of insight into its causes (Skole in press). It seems obvious that tropical deforestation is the consequence of a variety of interrelated social, economic, and environmental factors. Yet, interpretations of how these factors interact to stimulate deforestation vary widely. Some interpretations focus chiefly on population growth, whereas others regard institutions as the main determinant (Allen and Barnes 1985, Browder 1988, Bunker 1984b, Meyer and Turner 1992, Moran et al. this issue, Rudel 1989, Sanderson in press).
Master Directory DIF Display is a component of the Landsat Pathfinder Program, which is part of a larger PathfinderProgram initiated effort between NASA, the US Environmental Protection http://aria.arizona.edu/research/metadata/eosdismetadatasample.html
Extractions: If you have further questions or noticed a need for an update, please contact the GCMD staff scientists! Data Set Citation Originator(s): EROS Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center Title: North American Landscape Characterization Publication Date: 1993 Publication Place: Sioux Falls, South Dakota Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Data Presentation Form: Remote Sensing Image Last Updated: 1997-09-23
LP DAAC Site Map About Data Products Order Data News Help/FAQ/Edu Links Contact US ImageryLandsat 7 ETM+; Terra ASTER; Terra MODIS V003 Data; Landsat Pathfinder; http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/sitemap.html
Sample DAAC Products - Northern Oklahoma NASA Landsat Pathfinder Program US Southern Great Plains Cloud and Radiation Testbed(CART), Osage, OK http//edcdaac.USgs.gov/Pathfinder/arm_cart/oso172na.htm. http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/samples/oklahoma.html
Extractions: The Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) scene of south-central Kansas and north-central Oklahoma provides extensive coverage of southern Great Plains agriculture. The area is dominated by agricultural land use with primary crops consisting of wheat, corn, sorghum grain, soybeans, hay/alfalfa and others. As the scene was acquired on August 24, 1999, agricultural crops are in varying pre- and post-harvest stages The scene also provides coverage of the Flint Hills which are dominantly tallgrass prairie (little bluestem, blue gramma, big bluestem, etc.). When viewing the ETM+ band combination (5,4,3) above several primary colors/patterns are visible.
Links Landsat Pathfinder Humid Tropical Forest Inventory Project PanAmazon/Africa (MSU). Landsat-7Gateway. US Global Change Research Information Office (USGCR). http://lcluc.gsfc.nasa.gov/resources/links/index.asp
Extractions: L Land Cover Map of Canada 1995 derived from seasonally corrected AVHRR data (CCRS) Land Cover Map of Canada 1998 derived from seasonally corrected SPOT/VGT1 data (CCRS) Landsat Pathfinder Humid Tropical Deforestation Project: Pan-Amazon/Africa (UMD) Landsat Pathfinder Humid Tropical Forest Inventory Project: Amazon/Southeast Asia (MSU) ... LBA Ecology Project Office
DMG : Product : Deforestation Hot Spots Of The Pan-Amazon a 19992000 update to the Landsat Pathfinder product. 80s to mid-90s according tothe Pathfinder products This analysis will allow US to extrapolate an estimate http://dmg.umiacs.umd.edu/products/PanAmazon/index.shtml
Extractions: More data is being added as it is completed The 30 tiles outlined in this map represent 90% of the deforestation from the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s in the non-Brazilian Amazon based on the analysis of the Landsat Pathfinder Humid Tropical Deforestation Project products. It is likely that there are other hotspots within this study area that should be included but which have developed since the dates of the images used in the Landsat Pathfinder product. We will be reevaluating this set of hotspots as data is added to the products.
Landsat / Land Cover Pathfinder Science Working Group Friday February 14, 2003 Pathfinder Landsat / Land Cover. G, Bailey,US Geological Survey, gbbailey@edcserver1.cr.USgs.gov, 605594-6001. http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/directory/pathfinder/Landsat.php
Extractions: Pathfinder Landsat / Land Cover Last Updated: June 5, 2000 First Name Last Name Institution Email Phone Ghassem Asrar NASA Headquarters ghassem.asrar@hq.nasa.gov G Bailey US Geological Survey gbbailey@edcserver1.cr.usgs.gov William Draeger US Geological Survey N/A Christopher Elvidge NOAA/NGDC cde@ngdc.noaa.gov John (Jack) Estes University of California Santa Barbara estes@pollux.geog.ucsb.edu Leonard Gaydos NASA/Ames Research Center lgaydos@gala.arc.nasa.gov Forrest Hall NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center forrest.hall@gsfc.nasa.gov Richard Houghton Woods Hole Research Center N/A Anthony Janetos NASA Headquarters anthony.c.janetos@hq.nasa.gov Christopher Justice University of Virginia justice@virgiia.edu Martha Maiden NASA Headquarters mmaiden@hq.nasa.gov Jean-Paul Malingreau European Commission/JRC-SAI jean-paul.malingreau@cen.jrc.it Gylvan Meira Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais N/A Douglas Muchoney Smithonian Institution nzpem055@sivm.si.edu
The Earth Observer January/February 1995, Vol. 7 No. 1 This Landsat Pathfinder dataset could be the first opportunity at reasonable expense LongTerm Ecological Research) program, GLOBE, the US National Biological http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/eos_observ/1_2_95/p19.html
Extractions: Land panel Meeting Summary Steven W. Running (swr@ntsg.umt.edu), Chair, Land Panel T he newly defined Land Panel met at the end of the IWG meeting in Hunt Valley, MD, October 21, 1994. The panel sees its charge as providing a sounding board for EOS Management when opinions are needed on EOS Land Science related issues, and as a vehicle to bring issues from the science community to EOS management. The Land Panel plans to meet during every IWG meeting, and in the interim interact using the iwg-land@ltpmail.gsfc.gov Internet address. Special meetings may be convened on specific topics requiring critical action. A particular theme of the panel is to improve coordination between sensor team members producing EOS algorithms and IDS team members using these algorithms for EOS science. The following initial issues were discussed: The advantage of keeping separate but interacting ASTER and Landsat Teams, as suggested by the chairs of both, Anne Kahle and Darrel Williams. The Land Panel endorses this suggestion. The opportunity of the land science community to request regional monitoring using the ASTER sensor. Part of the ASTER duty cycle is available for targeted requests. Anyone interested should contact Anne Kahle, JPL.
Spacelink - Land Landsat Pathfinder Project The goal of the Landsat Pathfinder Program is to establish USGSTerraWeb for Kids - The US Geological Survey offers this on-line http://spacelink.nasa.gov/NASA.Projects/Earth.Science/Land/
Extractions: Where am I? NASA Spacelink Home The Library NASA Projects Earth Science Land NASA is using satellite and ground data to help improve agricultural productivity, track the deterioration of wetlands, speed the clean-up of hazardous waste sites, forecast the potential for future flooding along the Mississippi River, and estimate tropical deforestation. [Some of these links will take you out of NASA Spacelink. To return, use the Back button on your browser or bookmark this page for later reference.] AVIRIS - Learn here about AVIRIS, a world class instrument in the realm of Earth Remote Sensing. It is a unique optical sensor that delivers calibrated images and has flown all across the US, plus Canada and Europe.
Spacelink - Life Landsat Pathfinder Project The goal of the Landsat Pathfinder Program is to establishlong US Geological Survey Learning Web - Consider The Learning Web to be http://spacelink.nasa.gov/NASA.Projects/Earth.Science/Life/
Extractions: [Some of these links will take you out of NASA Spacelink. To return, use the Back button on your browser or bookmark this page for later reference.] BOREAS Research Program - The Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (BOREAS) was a major international research program carried out in the Canadian boreal forest. It's primary goals were to determine how the boreal forest interacts with the atmosphere (via the transfer of gases and energy), how much carbon is stored in the forest ecosystem, how climate change will affect the forest, and how changes in the forest affects weather and climate. The BOREAS Follow-on is a collection of data sets containing additional information from the BOREAS Project. Forest Ecosystem Dynamics - The Forest Ecosystem Dynamics Program (FEDS) is concerned with modeling and monitoring ecosystem processes and patterns in response to natural and anthropogenic effects. The overall objective of the FED project is to link and use models of forest dynamics, soil processes and canopy energetics to understand how ecosystem response to change affects patterns and processes in northern and boreal forests and to assess the implications for global change. Landsat Pathfinder Project - The goal of the Landsat Pathfinder Program is to establish long-term, medium- to high-resolution data sets for particular regional and global applications to global change research.
Fondren Library: Frequently Asked Questions and Space Administration (NASA) Landsat Pathfinder Program. Pathfinder projects focUSon the investigation of effort between the US Environmental Protection http://www.rice.edu/fondren/gdc/remotedata.html
Extractions: Landsat 7 is a U.S. satellite used to acquire remotely sensed images of the Earth's land surface and surrounding coastal regions. This site features Landsat 7 data characteristics, science and education applications, technical documentation, program policy, and history. It is maintained by the Landsat 7 Project Science Office at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. There are NO restrictions on the use, reprocessing or redistribution of LANDSAT 7 data purchased from the US Government. Landsat 7 data can be delivered to customers in three basic products depending on the level of processing that has been performed on the data. These three basic levels of processing are: Level 0R (zero-R), Level 1R, and Level 1G. You can read more about the different levels of processing at http://landsat7.usgs.gov/l7_processlevels.html
Extractions: General Sources California Environmental Resources Evaluation System Maps and Spatial Data c@ California State Lands Commission Online GIS Data c@ KLAMATH GIS PROJECT c@ USGS San Francisco Bay Area Regional Database (BARD) c@ USGS San Francisco Bay Area Regional Database (BARD) 30m DEM c@ USGS San Francisco Bay Area Regional Database (BARD) Digital Orthophoto Quads c@ UC Santa Cruz Data Library download files c@ ArcData Online c@ African Data Distribution Service NBS Interagency Taxonomic Information System NBS Non-indigenous Aquatic Species Program Nature Conservancy Selected Scientific Data Sets ... Library
