Acknowledgements
Funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (grant
number NAGW 4206) supported this research. The National Science Foundation
project on High Performance Computing for Land Cover Dynamics, the BOREAS
project, and the Landsat Pathfinder project on Deforestation on the Humid
Tropics provided some of the high resolution data. In addition, the
United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, under the
USGS Data Grant Program provided high resolution data from the United
States. We are grateful to Dr. Steve Prince, Dr. Terri Mulhern, Marc
Steininger, Dr. R. Nagaraja of the Remote Sensing Agency of India, T.M.
Killeen of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Dr. Chaowalit Silapathong of the
Thailand Remote Sensing Center, Sangchan Limjirakan of the Chulalongkorn
University Environmental Research Institute, and Gordon Worum of the
Alaska Department of Natural Resources for sharing their field knowledge
to aid interpretation of some of the scenes. April Tompkins compiled the
lists of land cover maps and designed this website. We also thank Dr.
Carla Brodley, Purdue University for helpful suggestions regarding the
application of decision trees.