This paper provides a review and summary status of the research underway by the NASA
Terra Aqua Suomi-NPP Land Discipline Team to provide continuity of global land data …

The enhanced vegetation productivity driven by increased concentrations of carbon dioxide
(CO2)[ie, the CO2 fertilization effect (CFE)] sustains an important negative feedback on …

Land cover is the physical material at the surface of the Earth. As the cause and result of
global environmental change, land cover change (LCC) influences the global energy …

The NDVI3g time series is an improved 8-km normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI)
data set produced from Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) instruments …

Land remote sensing capabilities in the optical domain have dramatically increased in the
past decade, owing to the unprecedented growth of space-borne systems providing a wealth …

The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) is one of the key environmental
remote-sensing instruments onboard the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership …

Monitoring long-term biomass dynamics in drylands is of great importance for many
environmental applications including land degradation and global carbon cycle modeling …

The current study evaluates consistency among three Normalized Difference Vegetation
Index (NDVI) datasets, namely GIMMS, MODIS and SPOT, to characterize alpine vegetation …

In an effort to increase conservation effectiveness through the use of Earth observation
technologies, a group of remote sensing scientists affiliated with government and academic …

Intercalibration of satellite instruments is critical for detection and quantification of changes
in the Earth's environment, weather forecasting, understanding climate processes, and …