Experiences and perspective in compiling long-term remote sensing data sets on landscapes and biospheric processes
✍ Scribed by Samuel N. Goward
- Book ID
- 104659312
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 965 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0343-2521
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✦ Synopsis
Remote sensing has been employed to study the Earth's landscapes for more than a century. Over the last thirty years major changes in all aspects of the technology, as well as scientific understanding of the measurements, have revolutionized use of these data for terrestrial research. The emergence of biophysical interpretations of land remotely sensed data has created great interest in the potential of these data to study the dynamics of landscapes and biospheric processes as contributors to global change. However, the evolutionary history of land remote sensing, particularly in the Landsat era, has in many ways worked against this use of the data. Until recently, there was little appreciation of the need to compile long-term historical records of these observations. There are currently no formal scientific institutional systems dedicated to preserving and distributing the long-term record of Earth observations acquired by Landsat, AVHRR or other land observing systems. As the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program begins, this issue should be one of the first priorities of the participants.