A new Landsat 8 Provisional Aquatic Reflectance product is now available through the EROS Science Processing Architecture (ESPA) on behalf of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Landsat program and USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS).
Here is the product page link: https://www.usgs.gov/land-resources/nli/landsat/landsat-provisional-aquatic-reflectance
Join GLOS for this webinar on April 8th at 1pm EDT! REGISTER HERE
What’s the webinar about?
The past year has seen an exciting one at GLOS: new staff, new technology, new partnerships, and a new strategic plan to guide the organization through 2025 in support of the Smart Great Lakes Initiative.
Along with the newness has come some important questions from our partners: What does the new strategic plan mean for existing efforts? What new opportunities exist for partnership? How can I leverage GLOS to improve my work and contribute to the overall observing system?
The new strategic plan was crafted to improve the caliber of end-to-end data services GLOS is able to offer to the Great Lakes region, and providing those services means collaborating closely with current and future data providers—those deploying the sensors, buoys, and other technologies that enable us to monitor and understand our lakes.
Tune in to hear an update on how GLOS is working to support monitoring, how to contribute to the new Integrated Ocean Observing System proposal, practical next-steps for sharing your data, and more.
This is an open webinar. Please share with anyone who may be interested in attending.
Hope to see you there, and do reach out with any questions, or visit www.GLOS.us
The application deadline has been extended to 15 April 2020.
GEO has partnered with Google to offer 25 licenses for the sustained use of Google Earth Engine (GEE) for projects using Earth observation data to address global challenges related to climate change, sustainable development, disaster risk reduction and others. These 2-year, full-access licenses aim to empower public sector and commercial recipients to tackle significant societal challenges and improve understanding of our planet.
In addition, projects selected will benefit from technical support and guidance from EO Data Science through an outreach programme to help projects get the results needed from GEE, adding valuable knowledge and know-how to the programme.
Please submit your project proposals using the form found here by 15 April 2020.
If you have any questions about the Programme, please see the answers to the most Frequently Asked Questions here.
Dr. Nancy Glenn is hiring two post-docs in remote sensing of carbon dynamics with disturbance. This is a great opportunity to work in Australia and with collaborators in the US, and because they have many projects, there is some choice in which the post-docs can pursue. Please see the ad here: https://external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/498817/postdoctoral-fellow-research-associate-remote-sensing
She also has the opportunity to hire 3 PhD students in Functional diversity mapping with imaging spectroscopy and lidar; Quantifying aboveground carbon loss from wildfires and the influence of drought; and Mapping the global distribution of drylands and their trajectories. Please contact her if you are interested in any of these positions!
Nancy Glenn @NancGlenn
n.glenn@unsw.edu.au or nancyglenn@boisestate.edu
The unprecedented continental scale of the current Australian bushfires is devastating. They have led to the loss of lives, homes, habitats and biodiversity on a huge scale.
In this time of extreme loss, we are buoyed by the amazing response of individuals and communities in this time of crisis. We believe there is a role for citizen science to assist across multiple disciplines, at scale, in many research and monitoring capacities to contribute to important and valuable science that is needed now and into the future.
ACSA is seeking to support conversations and plans – both short and long term – that help further connect the citizen science community to contribute to the complex efforts required to learn from and understand the impact of the bushfires (see ACSA bushfire response)
The first step we are taking is an audit and gather as many research projects as we can that include fire – bushfire/forest/wildfire as their focus and citizen science as part of their methodologies. We have developed the ACSA Citizen Science Bushfire Response Project survey and we would be very grateful if you could circulate this widely through your networks to all those who might already be working in this area. We are seeking projects across a broad spectrum of subjects, from biodiversity to human health that use a wide range of methodologies, from projects which require on the ground work, to purely online projects where everyone can contribute.
This information will be used to create a publicly available list of active projects and ACSA will work with partners to identify a number of projects that have the potential to contribute on a national scale.
Contact: Libby Hepburn
libby@atlasoflife.org.au +61 458 798 990 Merimbula,
New South Wales, Australia
