USGS and NASA Select
Landsat Science Team
(13 October 2006) The U.S. Geological
Survey (USGS), in co-operation with the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA), announces the selection of the Landsat Data Continuity
Mission (LDCM) Science Team.
These scientists and engineers will
advise the USGS and NASA on issues critical to the success of the LDCM.
Expected to launch soon after 2010, the LDCM is designed to supply Landsat-like
data from the next generation of Earth observing satellites.
The LDCM
Science Team will recommend strategies for the effective use of archived data
from Landsat sensors and investigate the requirements for future sensors to
meet the needs of Landsat users, including the needs of policy makers at all
levels of government. The team will co-operate with other Earth observing
missions, both nationally and internationally.
The LDCM Science Team
combines USGS leadership, USGS and NASA scientists, and a group of external
scientists and satellite data applications specialists. The first meeting of
the team will be held in November, 2006. The members will serve in their
advisory capacity through the development and launch of the [next Landsat
-type] satellite and through the first year of data collection.
The LDCM
Science Team members, and their study areas are:
Dr. Richard Allen,
University of Idaho
Operational Evapotranspiration Algorithms for the
Landsat Data Continuity Mission
Martha Anderson, USDA Agricultural
Research Service
Mapping Drought and Evapotranspiration at High Spatial
Resolution Using Landsat Thermal and Surface Reflectance Band
Imagery
Alan Belward, European Commission Joint Research
Center
Natural Resources Management - Meeting Millennium Development
Goals
Robert Bindshadler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Advancing
Ice Sheet Research with the Next Generation Landsat Sensor
Warren Cohen,
U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station
Landsat and
Vegetation Change: Towards 50 Years of Observation and
Characterization
Feng Gao - Earth Resources Technology
Developing a
Consistent Landsat Data Set from MSS, TM/ETM+ and International Sources for
Land Cover Change Detection
Sam Goward, University of Maryland
The LDCM
Long Term Acquisition Plan: Extending and Enhancing the Landsat 7 LTAP
Approach
Dennis Helder, South Dakota State University
A Systematic
Radiometric Calibration Approach for LDCM and the Landsat Archive
Eileen
Helmer, USDA Forest Service International Institute of Tropical
Forestry
Cloud-Free Landsat Image Mosaics for Monitoring Tropical Forest
Ecosystems
Rama Nemani , NASA Ames Science Center
Developing
Biophysical Products for Landsat
Lazaros Oraiopoulos, University of
Maryland - Baltimore County
Cloud Detection and Avoidance for the Landsat
Data Continuity Mission
John Schott, Rochester Institute of
Technology
The Impact of Land Processes on Fresh and Coastal
Waters
Prasad Thenkabail, International Water Management
Institute
Global Irrigated Area Mapping using Landsat 30-m for the Years
2000 and 1975
Eric Vermote, University of Maryland
A Surface
Reflectance Standard Product for LDCM and Supporting Activities
James
Vogelmann, SAIC, USGS Center for Earth Resources Observation and
Science
Monitoring Forest and Rangeland Change using Landsat Continuity and
Alternative Sources of Satellite Data
Curtis Woodcock, Boston
University
Toward Operational Global Monitoring of Landcover
Change
Michael Wulder, Canadian Forest Service
Large-Area Land Cover
Mapping and Dynamics: Landsat Imagery to Information
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(source: US Geological Survey)