LEDAPS Forest Disturbance Mapping

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This figure appears in the Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Year 2007 report.

These products provide examples of LEDAPS forest disturbance mapping: (a) 0.05° modeling grid showing the percent of each cell area disturbed (harvested) per year for the mid-Atlantic from 1990 to 2000; (b) atmospherically corrected Landsat surface reflectance image for the Richmond, Virginia, region; and (c) high-resolution map of forest disturbance (red) and regrowth (green) for the Richmond region, 1990 to 2000. Credit: J.G. Masek, E.F. Vermote, N.E. Saleous, R. Wolfe, F.G. Hall, K. Huemmrich, F. Gao, J. Kutler, and T.K. Lim, NASA/ Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of Maryland (reproduced from Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters with permission from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ©2006).

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