NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has released the Advanced Land Image Assessment System (ALIAS) software and algorithm description documentation to the public. Developed through a collaboration between NASA and USGS, the ALIAS supports radiometric and geometric image processing for the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) instrument on board NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite. The ALIAS software and documentation can be accessed through the GSFC Open Source website.

Understanding Forests After Fire With Landsat and LiDAR
Field researchers Sarah Smith-Tripp and Lukas Olson stand in a high-severity burn with minimal tree cover in central British Columbia. This area burned in the Pelican Lakes Fire in 2015.