The university of maryland umd and nanjing normal university nnu in china offer a pioneering joint master of science in geospatial information sciences msgis. A landsatbased humid tropical forest disturbance alert was implemented for peru, the republic of congo and kalimantan, indonesia. Glad alerts footprint global forest watch open data portal. The global land cover facility glcf university of maryland. Alerts were mapped on a weekly basis as new terrain. Michael humber is a senior faculty specialist and instructor who has been at the university of maryland since fall 2007. This dataset provides landsat phenology algorithm lpa derived start and end of growing seasons sos and eos. Over 1 million satellite images were processed and analyzed, including over 600,000 landsat 7 images for the 20002012 interval, and approximately 400,000. Orthorectified landsat data are available for free download from the global. Regionalscale modis moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometerderived forest cover products are used to calibrate landsat. The landsat ecosystem disturbance adaptive processing system ledaps software was originally developed by the national aeronautics and space administrationgoddard space flight center and. The glcf develops and distributes remotely sensed satellite data and products concerned with land cover from the local to global scales.
Using landsat data to assess fire and burn severity. This is a landsat geocover 2000 satellite image map of maryland. The us geological survey usgs now offers, at no cost, the entire landsat archive online as of december 2008. Umd students, faculty, and staff can upgrade to windows 10 using software available through terpware. The collection contains the following two companion data sets produced by nasa goddard space flight center and the department of geographical sciences at the university of maryland. The compilation of global landsat datasets and the everlowering costs of computing now make it feasible to monitor the earths land cover at landsat resolutions of 30 m. Funded primarily by nasa, glcf has been involved in numerous research projects encompassing the fields of remote sensing, geospatial ecology, and information systems. If you are going to performing analysis on the landsat data, the level 1 geotiff data product is probably the one youre after, which will be the largest file size. It also includes annual tree cover estimates from 2010 to 2015 for north and south america. Congo basin monitoring with landsat, initial results from 1990 to 2000. The glcf archive includes all of the landsat geocover data, therefore, the. The data is available for download via ftp and earth science data interface.
New landsat 7 and 8 images are downloaded as they are posted online at. Previous versions of tcc were derived using the landsat global land survey collection, however for version 4 we mined and. The landsatlook viewer is a prototype tool that was developed to allow rapid online viewing and access to the usgs landsat image archives. Landsat data were found especially useful for forest monitoring due. Quantification of land cover and land use within the rural complex of the democratic republic of congo. This work is licensed under a creative commons attribution 4. Packages are available for institutional, workathome, and personal use. Anyone can freely download landsat data from the usgs earthexplorer or landsatlook. Global high resolution urban data from landsat sedac.
Previous versions of tcc were derived using the landsat global land survey collection, however for version 4. Congo basin forest monitoring with landsat, 19902000 glad. Adobe creative cloud apps are now available to students, faculty, and staff. The glcf is a part of the university of maryland institute for advanced computer studies umiacs. The glcf archive includes all of the landsat geocover data, therefore, the archive contains at least one image from any where in the world within landsat coverage boundaries, except for antarctica. The global land cover facility university of maryland. Global land cover facility glcf university of maryland.
Landsat 8 and sentinel2 satellites have spectral and spatial similarities that make using their data together possible. The usgs earth explorer gives a quick and intuitive way to download free aerial and satellite imagery. The university of maryland s global land cover facility glcf offers thousands of landsat scenes and derived data products. Global characterization and monitoring of forest cover. Landsat satellite imagery nc state university libraries. First launched in 1972, the landsat satellite series. The glcf is also associated with the university of maryland. Data holdings include landsat scenes, modis, aster, quickbird imagery high res and srtm dems. Im posting about the university of marylands global land cover facility, a massive archive terabytes and growing of various kinds of satellite imagery and derived data, even though i suspect many. Provides access to ikonos, landsat tmetm, modis, avhrr, and srtm shuttle radar topographic mission image data. The landsat vegetation continuous fields vcf tree cover layers contain estimates of the percentage of horizontal ground in each 30m pixel covered by woody vegetation greater than 5 meters in height.
Global 30m landsat tree canopy version 4 lcluc university of. A lidar selfie of the ladies of landsat members standing in a circle around the laser scanning sensor at our 2018 forestsat meet up at the university of maryland. Hansens research while affiliated with university of maryland, college park and other. The university of marylands global land cover facility glcf offers thousands of landsat scenes and derived data products. The global land analysis and discovery glad laboratory in the department of geographical sciences at the university of maryland investigates. The map is generated by choosing, for each pixel, the land cover. He started research with the department of geographical sciences in fall 2010 as an. Landsat ecosystem disturbance adaptive processing system. Using landsat data to assess fire and burn severity in the. The global land cover facility glcf of the university of maryland in college park, maryland has landsat data available for download via ftp.
This image was acquired by landsat 5s thematic mapper tm sensor on june 15, 1986. Amichigan tech research institute, michigan technological university, 3600 green court, suite 100, ann arbor, m14810s, usa. Hansens 58 research works with 12,984 citations and 15,712 reads, including. University of maryland institute for advanced computer studies addressing challenges in deep neural networks furong huang is applying classical machine learning algorithms to solve problems with. Pdf annual continuous fields of woody vegetation structure in the. Results from timeseries analysis of landsat images in characterizing global forest extent and change. Last year, we wrote about the landsat thematic bands web mapping application, an easytouse but powerful teaching and research tool and data set. The global land cover facility glcf is an operational research and development project housed in the department of geographical sciences, within the college or behavioral and social sciences, at the university of maryland. The global land analysis and discovery glad laboratory in the department of geographical sciences at the university of maryland investigates methods, causes and impacts of global land surface change. If you are going to performing analysis on the landsat data, the level 1 geotiff data product is probably the one youre after, which will be the. Humid tropical forest disturbance alerts using landsat. Landsatderived spring and autumn phenology, eastern us canadian forests, 198420. This is a falsecolor image made using infrared, nearinfrared, and green wavelengths tm bands 5, 4, and 2.
The global land cover facility glcf is an operational research and development project housed in the department of geographical sciences, within the college or behavioral and social sciences, at the. University of maryland institute for advanced computer studies. Joint gis program with nanjing normal university oiep l. Adobe creative cloud allows you to download and install the latest versions of adobes most. About these data describe land cover type, and are based on 10 years 20012010 of collection 5. When the data are used together observations can be more timely and accurate. Earth observation imagery are the primary data source and land cover extent and change the. Ladies of landsat builds inclusivity in the geosciences. Landsatsentinel2 interoperability and harmonization presentations lstcontributed alexei lyapustin, y. This falsecolor composite image was created using the infrared, near. Cities, rivers, lakes, mountains and other features shown in this image include.
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