The 16-day revisit cycle of Landsat has long limited its use for studying global biophysical
processes, which evolve rapidly during the growing season. In cloudy areas of the Earth, the …

Aim Our scientific understanding of the extent and distribution of mangrove forests of the
world is inadequate. The available global mangrove databases, compiled using disparate …

… Lim are with the Biospheric Sciences Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt,
MD 20771 USA (e-mail: jeffrey.g.masek@nasa.gov). EF Vermote is with the University of …

Forest disturbance and recovery are critical ecosystem processes, but the spatial pattern of
disturbance has never been mapped across North America. The LEDAPS (Landsat …

The topography across the eastern margin of the central Andean plateau north of 18S (Beni
region) bears a strong resemblance to the topography of the southern margin of the Tibetan …

The history of Earth observation from space is well reflected through the Landsat program.
With data collection beginning with Landsat-1 in 1972, the program has evolved technical …

Incorporating ecological disturbance into biogeochemical models is critical for estimating
current and future carbon stocks and fluxes. In particular, anthropogenic disturbances, such as …

The Landsat Ecosystem Disturbance Adaptive Processing System (LEDAPS) software was
originally developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration–Goddard Space …

Differences in the topography of central Nepal and Bhutan are characterized by map and
profile patterns of elevation, slope, relief, and stream gradients. Nepal exhibits a narrow …

Disturbance events strongly affect the composition, structure, and function of forest
ecosystems; however, existing US land management inventories were not designed to monitor …