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Landsat continuity: Issues and opportunities for land cover monitoring Landsat continuity: Issues and opportunities for land cover monitoring
Initiated in 1972, the Landsat program has provided a continuous record of earth observation for 35 years. The assemblage of Landsat spatial, spectral, and temporal resolutions, over a reasonably sized image extent, results in imagery that can be processed to represent land cover over large areas with an amount of spatial detail that is absolutely unique and indispensable for monitoring
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M.A. Wulder, Joanne C. White, S.N. Goward, J. G. Masek, J. R. Irons, M. Herold, W.B. Cohen, Thomas R. Loveland, C. E. Woodcock
The U.S. Geological Survey Land Remote Sensing Program The U.S. Geological Survey Land Remote Sensing Program
The fundamental goals of the U.S. Geological Survey's Land Remote Sens-ing (LRS) Program are to provide the Federal Government and the public with a primary source of remotely sensed data and applications and to be a leader in defining the future of land remote sensing, nationally and internationally. Remotely sensed data provide information that enhance the understand-ing of ecosystems...
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Water Resources Division U.S. Geological Survey