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Viewing the Earth from space is a breathtaking experience. In the daytime, the green and brown masses of earth blend into the deep blue ocean, covered by curling wisps of clouds. At night, the globe is peppered with constellations of golden lights. The images we take of space have more than an aesthetic value; they facilitate research about how the Earth is changing by creating the big picture we cannot get from the ground. A central research theme of the Global Environmental Remote Sensing (GERS) laboratory is to understand how the world is changing based on quantitative remote sensing. We are interested in using a variety of remote sensing sensors, such as drones, small satellites, Landsat, Sentinel-2, MODIS, VIIRS, LIDAR, and Radar to monitor environmental change at regional to global scales. The photos from the upper row showing the 'GERS' letters are Landsat images and the GIFs in the lower row are time series of Landsat data that illustrate the land-water dynamics, forest change, urban disturbance, and agricultural practice in the past 40 years.
GERS LabX News
Time series tree species maps for Canada’s forested ecosystems from 1984 to 2022 at 30 m spatial resolution using #Landsat imagery, topographic and climate data, and cal/val data from Canada’s NFI.
37 species, 39 years, 650 Mha!
Paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2024.122313
#opendata & info⬇️📜
Cannot agree more. One is lonely and two is just good enough.
The average tropical cyclone in the US generates 7,000 to 11,000 excess deaths, and these cyclones accounted for around 3.2–5.1% of deaths on the Atlantic coast from 1930 to 2015, according to a study in @Nature. https://go.nature.com/3BsQXDf
We can improve the success of mangrove restoration if we learn from previous experiences
The new Mangrove Restoration Tracker Tool does just that!
70 authors from around the world, led by @Yasmine_Gatt, Rowana Walton, @T_A_Worthington
Download it here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590332224004342