The usgs earth explorer gives a quick and intuitive way to download free aerial and satellite imagery. The us geological survey usgs now offers, at no cost, the entire landsat archive online as of december 2008. The global land cover facility university of maryland. Landsat 8 and sentinel2 satellites have spectral and spatial similarities that make using their data together possible. Humid tropical forest disturbance alerts using landsat. Adobe creative cloud allows you to download and install the latest versions of adobes most.
The landsatlook viewer is a prototype tool that was developed to allow rapid online viewing and access to the usgs landsat image archives. 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. First launched in 1972, the landsat satellite series. Global 30m landsat tree canopy version 4 lcluc university of. During 1992, about 1,430 million gallons per day mgald of freshwater was withdrawn from surfacewater and groundwater sources in maryland. This dataset provides landsat phenology algorithm lpa derived start and end of growing seasons sos and eos. Landsat satellite imagery nc state university libraries. Over 1 million satellite images were processed and analyzed, including over 600,000 landsat 7 images for the 20002012 interval, and approximately 400,000. Hansens research while affiliated with university of maryland, college park and other. 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. This image was acquired by landsat 5s thematic mapper tm sensor on june 15, 1986. 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. Earth observation imagery are the primary data source and land cover extent and change the.
Adobe creative cloud apps are now available to students, faculty, and staff. Glad alerts footprint global forest watch open data portal. Results from timeseries analysis of landsat images in characterizing global forest extent and change. Cities, rivers, lakes, mountains and other features shown in this image include. Alerts were mapped on a weekly basis as new terrain. The university of marylands global land cover facility glcf offers thousands of landsat scenes and derived data products. Last year, we wrote about the landsat thematic bands web mapping application, an easytouse but powerful teaching and research tool and data set. Provides access to ikonos, landsat tmetm, modis, avhrr, and srtm shuttle radar topographic mission image data. The glcf is a part of the university of maryland institute for advanced computer studies umiacs. The university of maryland umd and nanjing normal university nnu in china offer a pioneering joint master of science in geospatial information sciences msgis. 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. Free satellite imagery and derived data from the glcf.
Ladies of landsat builds inclusivity in the geosciences. 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. Congo basin forest monitoring with landsat, 19902000 glad. The map is generated by choosing, for each pixel, the land cover. 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. Funded primarily by nasa, glcf has been involved in numerous research projects encompassing the fields of remote sensing, geospatial ecology, and information systems. The glcf is also associated with the university of maryland. Anyone can freely download landsat data from the usgs earthexplorer or landsatlook. The university of maryland s global land cover facility glcf offers thousands of landsat scenes and derived data products.
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. 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. Global ecosystem dynamics investigation gedi high resolution laser ranging of earths forests and topography from the international space station iss the mission science. 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. This work is licensed under a creative commons attribution 4. Packages are available for institutional, workathome, and personal use.
Landsatsentinel2 interoperability and harmonization presentations lstcontributed alexei lyapustin, y. The global land cover facility glcf of the university of maryland in college park, maryland has landsat data available for download via ftp. Previous versions of tcc were derived using the landsat global land survey collection, however for version 4 we mined and. When the data are used together observations can be more timely and accurate. 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 land cover facility glcf university of maryland.
Amichigan tech research institute, michigan technological university, 3600 green court, suite 100, ann arbor, m14810s, usa. The data is available for download via ftp and earth science data interface. Joint gis program with nanjing normal university oiep l. Michael humber is a senior faculty specialist and instructor who has been at the university of maryland since fall 2007.
This falsecolor composite image was created using the infrared, near. Landsat ecosystem disturbance adaptive processing system. This is a landsat geocover 2000 satellite image map of maryland. Quantification of land cover and land use within the rural complex of the democratic republic of congo. Landsatderived spring and autumn phenology, eastern us canadian forests, 198420. Ju, nasa gsfcuniversity of maryland baltimore county university of. The global land analysis and discovery glad laboratory in the department of geographical sciences at the university of maryland investigates. Using landsat data to assess fire and burn severity in the. Global high resolution urban data from landsat sedac. Data holdings include landsat scenes, modis, aster, quickbird imagery high res and srtm dems. University of maryland global land cover facility for free viewingdownload of individual landsat images, geocover mosaics, and other earth imagery data. Global characterization and monitoring of forest cover. About these data describe land cover type, and are based on 10 years 20012010 of collection 5.
Umd students, faculty, and staff can upgrade to windows 10 using software available through terpware. This is a falsecolor image made using infrared, nearinfrared, and green wavelengths tm bands 5, 4, and 2. 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. The glcf archive includes all of the landsat geocover data, therefore, the. Hansens 58 research works with 12,984 citations and 15,712 reads, including. Previous versions of tcc were derived using the landsat global land survey collection, however for version 4. 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. It also includes annual tree cover estimates from 2010 to 2015 for north and south america. University of maryland institute for advanced computer studies. The global land cover facility glcf university of maryland. New landsat 7 and 8 images are downloaded as they are posted online at.
Landsat data were found especially useful for forest monitoring due. 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. This landsat 5 image of the southeastern corner of the black sea is part of the general u. The view then shifts to columbia and laurel, maryland, indicating urban growth with red dots. Pdf annual continuous fields of woody vegetation structure in the. Congo basin monitoring with landsat, initial results from 1990 to 2000. Using landsat data to assess fire and burn severity. He started research with the department of geographical sciences in fall 2010 as an. Orthorectified landsat data are available for free download from the global. A landsatbased humid tropical forest disturbance alert was implemented for peru, the republic of congo and kalimantan, indonesia. Regionalscale modis moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometerderived forest cover products are used to calibrate landsat.
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