Leaf Area Index (LAI) measurements help to parameterize the water balance in Michigan in order to obtain accurate estimations of evapotranspiration. MTRI is producing maps of LAI in the upland ...

Comparison shows that MODIS LST fails to effectively present the spatial temperature distribution, while VIIRS LST exhibits richer textural details, demonstrating greater similarity with Landsat data ...

Location of Landsat test scenes and field validation area within the Brazilian Amazon. Percent tree cover values from the 2001 Vegetation Continuous Fields (VCF) product show the extent of forest ...

Researchers at the University of Maryland have developed a 30-meter resolution forest cover data set that could boost efforts to track deforestation and forest degradation. The dataset, which is ...

With fusion of data from different sources, the focus is on two types of differences: the sensor bias between coarse and fine spatial resolution images, and the temporal differences between coarse ...

The launch next week comes at a time when the future of the world's longest-running set of Earth-observations data is at stake When Landsat 5 fell silent on 6 January, scientists across the globe ...

To track the changes in ocean color, scientists analyzed measurements of ocean color taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Aqua satellite, which has been ...