The ORNL DAAC announces the release of a time series of Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM), Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+), and Landsat Multispectral Scanner (MSS) scenes for five (Path/Row) areas in Rondonia, Brazil.
LBA-ECO ND-01 Georegistered Landsat Imagery for Rondonia, Brazil: 1975-2000. Data set prepared by D.A. Roberts, I. Numata, K.W. Holmes, G.T. Batista, T. Krug, A.L. Monteiro, B. Powell, and O.A. Chadwick. This data set provides a time series of Landsat Multispectral Scanner (MSS), Thematic Mapper (TM), and Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) scenes for five (Path/Row) areas in Rondonia, Brazil: Ariquemes (P232,R67), Ji-Parana (P231, R67), Luiza (P231, R68), Cacoal (P230, R68), and Porto Velho (P232, R66). The scenes are from the period June 1975 through June 2000, but all areas do not have scenes for all the years.
LBA was an international research initiative under the leadership of Brazil. The project focused on the climatological, ecological, biogeochemical, and hydrological functions of Amazonia; the impact of land use change on these functions; and the interactions between Amazonia and the Earth system. The LBA-ECO component, which was funded by NASA, focused on the question: "How do tropical forest conversion, regrowth, and selective logging influence carbon storage, nutrient dynamics, trace gas fluxes, and the prospect for sustainable land use in Amazonia? "
The ORNL DAAC is a NASA-funded data center archiving and distributing terrestrial ecology and biogeochemical dynamics data.