Landsat has the optimal ground resolution and spectral bands to efficiently track land use and to document land change due to climate change, urbanization, drought, wildfire, biomass changes (carbon assessments), and a host of other natural and human-caused changes. Moreover, the continuous archive reaching back to 1972 provides essential land change data and trending information […]
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