#42 Weekly Remote Sensing and Geoscience news!
USGS and MRLC Consortium Unveil National Land Cover Database 2021 โ Explore Now!; Explore the newly updated version of ESA's World Fire Atlas; Course: and more!
These are the topics of our #42 newsletter issue:
๐ฐ USGS and MRLC Consortium Unveil National Land Cover Database 2021 โ Explore Now!
๐ฐ Explore the newly updated version of ESA's World Fire Atlas
๐ฐ Course: Spatial data and geographic information systems (GIS) in R
๐ฐ NASA ARSET: Building Climate Risk Assessments from Local Vulnerability and Exposure
๐ฐ Job Offers
๐ฐ Upcoming events
๐ฐ Week's recommended reading
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USGS and MRLC Consortium Unveil National Land Cover Database 2021 โ Explore Now!
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in collaboration with the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium, is delighted to reveal the successful completion and launch of the most recent edition of the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) for the contiguous United States, specifically, NLCD 2021.
Specific map products include:ย
๐บ๏ธ Land cover โ Conterminous U.S. land cover at a 30-meter spatial resolution with a 16-class legend based on a modified Anderson Level II classification systemย
๐บ๏ธ Land cover change index โ Provides a simple and comprehensive way to visualize change that occurred across all the NLCD epochs of land coverย
๐บ๏ธ Urban imperviousness โ Indicates urban impervious surfaces as a percentage of developed surface over every 30-meter pixel in the Conterminous U.S.ย
๐บ๏ธ Urban impervious descriptor โ Classifies specific types of roads, wind tower sites, building locations, and energy production sites to allow a deeper analysis of developed featuresย
๐บ๏ธ NLCD Science Productsย
Land Cover Change Disturbance Date โ Identifies the first land cover classification change event between any two adjacent target years across all NLCD epochs at the 30-meter pixel levelย
Forest Disturbance Date โ Identifies the most recent year of forest disturbance between the years 1984โ2021ย
Land Cover Change Count โ Calculates an integer count total of any change recorded between two consecutive epochsย
Land Cover with additional Forest Transition Classes โ Delineates spectrally stable grass and shrub areas from those that are transitional forest classes, which tend to be represented by forest harvest, burns, regrowth, and other disturbancesย ย
U.S. Forest Service Science Tree Canopy Cover โ The original, unmasked Tree Cover Canopy data produced by the U.S. Forest Service, an MRLC partner.ย
๐ฐ Read more: NLCD 2021 now available
Explore the newly updated version of ESA's World Fire Atlas
๐ฅ Over the past few weeks, destructive wildfires have swept through countries including Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Algeria, Tunisia, and Canada. These fires have not only resulted in loss of life but have also inflicted significant environmental and financial harm.
๐ฅ As per data from the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), over 234,516 hectares of land in the European Union have been burned as of July 29, 2023, within this year only.
๐ฐ Read more: Counting wildfires across the globe
Course: Spatial data and geographic information systems (GIS) in R
๐ฉ๐พโ๐ป Discover the fascinating intersection of data and location through user-friendly lectures, hands-on exercises, and engaging projects. The expert instructors will guide you step-by-step, ensuring you feel confident working with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and exploring diverse spatial datasets.
๐จ The course is currently 50% off.
๐ฐ Access: Spatial data and geographic information systems (GIS) in R
NASA ARSET: Building Climate Risk Assessments from Local Vulnerability and Exposure
By the end of this training attendees will be able to:
Theory: Plan for a risk assessment tailored to their system of interest
Resources: Identify NASA resources for climate risk assessment
Contextual: Recognize importance of developing contextual intervention strategies for specific stakeholder decisions
Demonstration: Connect climate risk information to specific vulnerabilities and exposed assets to support climate action decision processes in their systems
๐ September 19, 2023 - September 21, 2023
๐ฐ Read more: ARSET - Building Climate Risk Assessments from Local Vulnerability and Exposure
Job Offers
โก๏ธ GIS Data Analyst
โก๏ธ Climate and Indigenous Affairs Policy Specialist โ Brazil
โก๏ธ Remote Sensing Specialist / Aerial Cartographer
โก๏ธ Senior Project Manager Earth Observation
โก๏ธ Research Fellow in Earth Observation
โก๏ธ Geospatial Statistician
โก๏ธ Assistant Program Manager, Spatial Analyst and Decision Support Specialist
โก๏ธ Data Scientist, Remote Sensing
Upcoming Events
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Week's recommended reading
Uncover the incredible story of Landsat's 50-year journey! Discover how this pioneering remote sensing technology has transformed our understanding of Earth and its dynamic changes.
๐ฐ Check out this paper: "Fifty Years of Landsat Science and Impacts"
๐ฐ You can check all my recommended papers at the bottom below:
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โ Rafaela Tiengo