Gary Price at
Resource Shelf continues to send on links that I don't find.
This week it's two government resources. First,
The Future of Land Imaging. It's the website of the The Future of Operational Land Imaging Working Group, a team given the mission of developing "a long-term plan to achieve technical, financial, and managerial stability for operational land imaging in accord with the goals and objectives of the U.S. Integrated Earth Observation System." There's a nice
history of Landsat (this site seems to be just about Landsat and its continuity) and the group's
plan of attack with will be capped with a final report in February 2007.
Second, is a new online atlas, the
Atlas of climatic controls of wildfire in the western United States (Title page/abstract), a 20 Mb pdf (
pdf). Bottom line:
Our results clearly demonstrate the link between wildfire conditions and a small set of climatic variables, and our methodology is a framework for providing near-real-time assessments of current wildfire conditions in the West.
