Fifty years of Landsat science and impacts

MA Wulder, DP Roy, VC Radeloff, TR Loveland… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Since 1972, the Landsat program has been continually monitoring the Earth, to now provide
50 years of digital, multispectral, medium spatial resolution observations. Over this time …

Satellite remote sensing of active fires: History and current status, applications and future requirements

MJ Wooster, GJ Roberts, L Giglio, DP Roy… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Landscape fire is a widespread, somewhat unpredictable phenomena that plays an
important part in Earth's biogeochemical cycling. In many biomes worldwide fire also …

Direct and indirect impacts of urbanization on vegetation growth across the world's cities

L Zhang, L Yang, CM Zohner, TW Crowther, M Li… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Urban environments, regarded as “harbingers” of future global change, may exert positive or
negative impacts on urban vegetation growth. Because of limited ground-based …

Current status of Landsat program, science, and applications

MA Wulder, TR Loveland, DP Roy, CJ Crawford… - Remote sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Formal planning and development of what became the first Landsat satellite commenced
over 50 years ago in 1967. Now, having collected earth observation data for well over four …

[HTML][HTML] The Collection 6 MODIS burned area mapping algorithm and product

L Giglio, L Boschetti, DP Roy, ML Humber… - Remote sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The two Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments on-
board NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites have provided nearly two decades of global fire …

An overview of the applications of earth observation satellite data: impacts and future trends

Q Zhao, L Yu, Z Du, D Peng, P Hao, Y Zhang, P Gong - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
As satellite observation technology develops and the number of Earth observation (EO)
satellites increases, satellite observations have become essential to developments in the …

[PDF][PDF] Impact of climate change on crops productivity using MODIS-NDVI time series

ZK Jabal, TS Khayyun, IA Alwan - Civil Engineering Journal, 2022 - researchgate.net
Climate change is the single biggest threat facing the global food system. Irrefutable impacts
of climate change on the food systems are recently acknowledged. Therefore, extensive …

Analysis ready data: enabling analysis of the Landsat archive

JL Dwyer, DP Roy, B Sauer, CB Jenkerson, HK Zhang… - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Data that have been processed to allow analysis with a minimum of additional user effort are
often referred to as Analysis Ready Data (ARD). The ability to perform large scale Landsat …

Rapid expansion of human impact on natural land in South America since 1985

V Zalles, MC Hansen, PV Potapov, D Parker… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Across South America, the expansion of commodity land uses has underpinned substantial
economic development at the expense of natural land cover and associated ecosystem …

Characterization of Landsat-7 to Landsat-8 reflective wavelength and normalized difference vegetation index continuity

DP Roy, V Kovalskyy, HK Zhang, EF Vermote… - Remote sensing of …, 2016 - Elsevier
At over 40 years, the Landsat satellites provide the longest temporal record of space-based
land surface observations, and the successful 2013 launch of the Landsat-8 is continuing …