Fires, Floods and Satellite Views: Modeling the Boreal Forest’s Future
The 2014 megafires in Canada’s Northwest Territories burned 7 million acres of forest, making it one of the most severe fire events in Canadian history.
The 2014 megafires in Canada’s Northwest Territories burned 7 million acres of forest, making it one of the most severe fire events in Canadian history.
As global temperatures rise, melting permafrost is expected to cause more frequent and hazardous landslides.
SDSU post-doc Pedro Oliveira is integrating remote sensing data from airborne LiDAR and Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 satellites to map the height of the Brazilian Amazon forest canopy.
This is the first study to document more than three decades of land and water changes across Alaska.
Using a quarter century of Landsat data, geospatial researchers have mapped and modeled how vegetation responds to water availability across the entire Murray-Darling Basin.
Using Landsat 8 satellite images from 2014 to 2016, researchers have discerned when the lakes on Greenland’s Petermann ice tongue formed, their movement, and changes in surface extent across time.
Geophysicists examining glacier changes in the Russian Arctic have found that the rate of ice mass loss has nearly doubled over the last decade when compared to records from the previous 60 years.
Patrick Hostert from the University of Berlin discusses the value of Landsat’s long archive to studying phenology.
Scientists at Berkeley Lab have produced a rapid mapping of the disturbance intensity across Puerto Rico’s forests with the help of Google Earth Engine and Landsat 8.
A NASA study based on an innovative technique for crunching torrents of satellite data provides the clearest picture yet of changes in Antarctic ice flow into the ocean.
Tropical peatland can be mapped accurately using freely-available remote sensing data and open source software.
Revealing the dynamic nature of glaciers.
Glaciers have been receeding rapidly in many parts of the world, including New Zealand.
Elmore delves into the changing phenology of forests and how that impacts the amount of carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere.
Modeling the aboveground biomass and carbon of tidal marshes across the U.S.
Using Landsat 8’s thermal data to monitor calving events in Antarctica.
Using Landsat data from 1984-2014 to investigate the blue carbon change in Louisiana’s coastal marshes.
Researchers used a time series of data from Landsat satellites to quantify areas burned or harvested across Canada.
Ted Scambos, Lead Scientist at the National Snow & Ice Data Center, talks about the roll of Landsat in his research studying polar regions.
A NASA study has located the Antarctic glaciers that accelerated the fastest between 2008 and 2014 and finds that the most likely cause of their speedup is an observed influx of warm water into the bay where they’re located.
The large rift that eventually formed iceberg A68 initially broke through a suture zone in the southern part of the ice shelf that had previously stabilized neighboring rifts for at least 80 years.
The Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) on Landsat 8 captured a new snap of the 2,240-square-mile iceberg that split off from the Antarctic Peninsula’s Larsen C ice shelf on July 10-12.
The iceberg is about the size of Delaware.
A new initiative called Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection provides definitive, timely information on how, why, and where the planet is changing.
A new Landsat-based data portal enables scientists to study in unprecedented detail how fast outlet glaciers such as this one move and change over space and time.
Scientists are providing a near-real-time view of every large glacier and ice sheet on Earth with Landsat 8.
A new a tool to help with annual forest mapping.
The water year 2015 peak snowpack was found to be the lowest over the 65-year reconstruction of peak annual snow water equivalent.
Using Landsat time-series analysis to map glaciers.
Looking at the causes of carbon loss in Pacific Northwest forests.
How the urban heat island of Boston affects the growing season of vegetation in and around the city.
The extensive Landsat record has been analyzed to map the climatalogical normal date of snowmelt for large areas of the Arctic.
In May 2015, a severe glacier surge struck the eastern Pamir.