Global Land Cover Facility - The Global Land Cover Facility (GLCF) makes available to the public a variety of Earth science data products including satellite imagery of the Earth, classified images of the Earth's land cover, coastal marsh health data, tropical deforestation maps, and much more. The GLCF facilitates the distribution of data products and provision of analytical services based on extensive land cover research programs. The major emphasis of our research is addressing critical environmental issues occurring at global, regional and local area scales. The GLCF also develops new tools for handling and processing data based on innovative computer science research.
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MODIS
TERRA
Landsat7
Global
Gloabl Land Cover
Forest Cover
Deforestation
Deforestation Mapping
Landsat Pathfinder
Geography
Land Use
Land Cover Change](Added: 20-Feb-2001 Hits: 1406)
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Homeland Security - Federal, State, and local governments are cooperating to prevent and reduce America’s vulnerability to terrorism, minimize possible damage, and recover from attacks that do occur. Agencies are strengthening aviation and border security, preparing the defense against bioterrorism, improving information sharing, and deploying more resources to protect our critical infrastructure. NASA’s measurements, observations, and modeling can provide data and information to Homeland Security networks to support risk assessments, vulnerability assessments, and mitigation assessments. Data and information can support decision making to ensure the adequacy of preparing for, preventing against, responding to and recovering from terrorist threats or attacks. Earth science-based solutions can serve this application by drawing on developments in several other applications, such as air quality, water management, public health, and disaster management. This application will focus especially on providing NASA data, information, and models to support governmental decision tools that identify, track, and forecast agents from anthropogenic disasters and terrorism introduced into the air and water. Prediction of events, hazardous situations, and impacts with increasing accuracy and longer lead times is a significant part of this application.
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