Wednesday, June 28. 2006

New Resources for Land Imaging/Fire and Climate Research

Gary Price at Resource Shelf continues to send on links that I don't find.

This week it's two government resources. First, The Future of Land Imaging. It's the website of the The Future of Operational Land Imaging Working Group, a team given the mission of developing "a long-term plan to achieve technical, financial, and managerial stability for operational land imaging in accord with the goals and objectives of the U.S. Integrated Earth Observation System." There's a nice history of Landsat (this site seems to be just about Landsat and its continuity) and the group's plan of attack with will be capped with a final report in February 2007.

Second, is a new online atlas, the Atlas of climatic controls of wildfire in the western United States (Title page/abstract), a 20 Mb pdf (pdf). Bottom line:

Our results clearly demonstrate the link between wildfire conditions and a small set of climatic variables, and our methodology is a framework for providing near-real-time assessments of current wildfire conditions in the West.

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