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Annual high-resolution estimates of Land Use and Cover from the Mawas research area, Indonesia

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2021-05-21
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Land cover maps at 30 m resolution across Mawas, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia in 1994 (left) and 2004 (right).

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Annual land use/cover (LUC) maps at 30 m resolution across Mawas, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.

High-Quality Forest Inventory Data for Gabon, Africa

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Gridded Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor (LVIS) instrument data products at 25 m spatial resolution over the Mondah Forest (left) and Mabounie (right) sites in Gabon.

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NASA's airborne Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor (LVIS) instrument was used to collect inventory data for Gabon's forests.

Explaining Vegetation Greening Trends in Yellowstone

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Trends in maximum annual NDVI for natural vegetation within the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) from 1989 to 2014 (Emmett et al. 2019).

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Daymet and North American Carbon Program (NACP) data were used to study Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) trends across the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

Tracking Fires in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

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The area burned in 1997 and 1998 in the Mawas area, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia is shown in pink. The inset with white dot shows the location of Mawas study site on the Island of Borneo.

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Maps of annual burned area from 1997 to 2015 show the extent of fires in the Mawas region of Central Kalimantan.