Landsat Helps Inform Restoration Decisions in the Great Lakes

December 14, 2015

Charles Perry, a Research Soil Scientist with the USDA’s Forest Inventory and Analysis group, gave a talk about his research that uses Landsat to monitor land use and land cover change in watersheds surrounding the Great Lakes at #AGU15. He is able to link the land use and land cover change information with other ancillary data to predict water quality, such as the amount of phosphorus (which feeds algae) in the lakes.

Finding Land Surface Change with Landsat: An Automation

December 14, 2015

Jennifer Rover, a Geographer with the U.S. Geological Survey, gave a talk on an automated method she developed to assess long-term change to Earth’s surface using Landsat at #AGU15.

Finding Where U.S. Forests Have Been Undisturbed for a Quarter Century

December 14, 2015

Chengquan Huang presented a poster explaining where to find U.S. forests that have been undisturbed for last 25 years at #AGU15. His research relied on Landsat to both find these forests and understand forest disturbance trends in the U.S.

Climate Change, Conservation, and the Chemical Evolution of Prairie Potholes

December 14, 2015

Martin Goldhaber gave a talk about how climate change will impact the hydrochemistry of wetlands in an immensely important ecosystem known as the Prairie Pothole Region at #AGU15. Landsat data helped Goldhaber track how the size of the waterbodies in his study area changed between 1973 and 2011. Here’s what he shared with us about his research.

Landsat at the 2015 AGU Fall Meeting

December 14, 2015

At this year’s AGU Fall meeting over 325 presentations feature research done using Landsat data. The Landsat-related papers and posters run the gamut of disciplines from cryosphere to biogeoscience to hydrology to global environmental change to natural hazards to informatics.

Day: December 14, 2015

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