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Science Applications Center The goal of the RESAC is to provide improved information and technologies to assess regional impacts of global environmental change. |
Prince |
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Land Cover Change Using MODIS, investigators at UMD have developed a new suite of land cover characterization and change products. |
Townshend DeFries |
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High-Resolution PAR MODIS and other remotely sensed data are used to estimate incident Photosynthetically Active Radiation for carbon studies |
Liang |
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MODIS Rapid Response The Web Fire Mapper displays interactive maps incorporating fire detection points data. Users can identify attributes over time spans and query information for individual points. |
Justice |
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Fire Mapping Team The GOFC/GOLD-Fire Program makes use of fire products from satellites for fire management, policy decision-making, and global change research. |
Justice Csiszar Roy |
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Carbon Cycle Studies A unique three dimensional, high-resolution radar backscatter model and a lidar waveform model have been developed at UMD and GSFC. |
Sun |
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Monitoring Forest Dynamics To monitor the dynamics of the forests in Northeastern China, this project is developing an operational forest monitoring system using satellite remote sensing data. |
Sun |
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Coastal Marsh Loss This research aims to assess changes in coastal marshes due to the rapid rates of sea level rise that have characterized the last decade. |
Kearney Kasischke |
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VIIRS Environment Data Researchers assess the suitability of the NPP VIIRS implementation of heritage algorithms and the stability of the resulting EDRs for the long term climate data record. |
Liang |
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Lidar Waveform Correlation This research further develops and demonstrates the accuracy and precision of vertical surface change measurements using lidar return waveforms. |
Hofton | Goward |
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Mapping Canopy Structure A collaborative effort investigating the use of space-based lidar remote sensing to produce global data sets of canopy height, vertical canopy structure and sub-canopy topography. |
Dubayah |
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Carbon Cycling & Biodiversity Researchers use lidar remote sensing of forest structure to explore the effects of this structure on species richness and distributions. |
Dubayah |
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Surface Reflectance Product
Using MODIS, investigators at UMD have developed a new surface reflectance product. |
Vermote |
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Tracking Elephants This project tracks Forest Elephants in Central Africa using telemetry data, provided by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). |
Davies |
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Tropical Deforestation
We are developing approaches to monitor deforestation through repeatable and automated analysis of satellite data. |
Defries |
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Vegetation Vertical Structure
Recent flight projects include those in support of the North American Carbon Program, NASA’s Solid Earth and Natural Hazards Program, etc. |
Hofton |
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CARPE: UMD & NASA
Central Africa Regional Project for the Environment - faculty from UMD and NASA Goddard have been involved with research in the Congo Basin since 1985. |
Justice |
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Global Agriculture Monitoring
The Global Agriculture Monitoring (GLAM) Project aims to enhance the agricultural monitoring capabilities of the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS). |
Justice |
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Trace Gas Emissions
The focus is to estimate emissions originating from fires and to determine their influence on variations in the atmospheric concentration of CO2 and othergases. |
Kasischke |
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Carbon Cycling & Eco-Recovery
This project focuses on understanding how fire influences ecosystem processes in the boreal forests of interior Alaska and encompasses several avenues of research. |
Kasischke |
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Gas and Particulate Emissions
The main aim of this research is to address the seasonal variations of biomass burning emissions and the associated impacts on emissions quantification. |
Korontzi |
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Data Assimilation System
We are reformulating the analysis of EOS data in this project by developing a prototype data assimilation system to generate an improved suite of land products from multiple EOS data sets. |
Liang |
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Low-cost Remote Sensing
In this project airborne multispectral imaging is being assessed for applications in agriculture. |
Prince |
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Global Climate Dataset
This project will create an equivalent MODIS data set and use the AVHRR/MODIS overlap period to asses the uncertainties in the AVHRR data set and to address data continuity issues. |
Prince |
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Post-Fire Rehab
An interagency team is engaged in efforts to develop advanced remote sensing applications to assist federal wildfire managers. |
Sohlberg |
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Surface Height Validation
This project involves the validation of surface height from Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) using the shuttle laser altimeter. |
Sun |
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Global Land Cover Facility
The GLCF specializes in developing land cover products that examine forest change including activities in the Amazon tropical rainforest, and the Canadian boreal forest. |
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