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Landsat 8: The plans, the reality, and the legacy by Loveland, Thomas R., Irons, James R.

“…Landsat 8, originally known as the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM), is a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)-U.S. Geological Survey…”
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The global Landsat archive: Status, consolidation, and direction by Wulder, Michael A., White, Joanne C., Loveland, Thomas R., Woodcock, Curtis E., Belward, Alan S., Cohen, Warren B., Fosnight, Eugene A., Shaw, Jerad, Masek, Jeffrey G., Roy, David P.

“…New and previously unimaginable Landsat applications have been fostered by a policy change in 2008 that made analysis-ready Landsat data free and open access…”
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Quality control and assessment of interpreter consistency of annual land cover reference data in an operational national monitoring program by Pengra, Bruce W., Stehman, Stephen V., Horton, Josephine A., Dockter, Daryn J., Schroeder, Todd A., Yang, Zhiqiang, Cohen, Warren B., Healey, Sean P., Loveland, Thomas R.

“…The U.S. Geological Survey Land Change Monitoring, Assessment and Projection (USGS LCMAP) initiative is working toward a comprehensive capability to…”
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Humid tropical forest clearing from 2000 to 2005 quantified by using multitemporal and multiresolution remotely sensed data by Hansen, Matthew C, Stehman, Stephen V, Potapov, Peter V, Loveland, Thomas R, Townshend, John R.G, DeFries, Ruth S, Pittman, Kyle W, Arunarwati, Belinda, Stolle, Fred, Steininger, Marc K, Carroll, Mark, DiMiceli, Charlene

“…Forest cover is an important input variable for assessing changes to carbon stocks, climate and hydrological systems, biodiversity richness, and other…”
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Landsat continuity: Issues and opportunities for land cover monitoring by Wulder, Michael A., White, Joanne C., Goward, Samuel N., Masek, Jeffrey G., Irons, James R., Herold, Martin, Cohen, Warren B., Loveland, Thomas R., Woodcock, Curtis E.

“…Initiated in 1972, the Landsat program has provided a continuous record of earth observation for 35 years. The assemblage of Landsat spatial, spectral, and…”
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Combining MODIS and Landsat imagery to estimate and map boreal forest cover loss by Potapov, Peter, Hansen, Matthew C., Stehman, Stephen V., Loveland, Thomas R., Pittman, Kyle

“…Estimation of forest cover change is important for boreal forests, one of the most extensive forested biomes, due to its unique role in global timber stock,…”
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Transitioning from change detection to monitoring with remote sensing: A paradigm shift by Woodcock, Curtis E., Loveland, Thomas R., Herold, Martin, Bauer, Marvin E.

“…The use of time series analysis with moderate resolution satellite imagery is increasingly common, particularly since the advent of freely available Landsat…”
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A review of large area monitoring of land cover change using Landsat data by Hansen, Matthew C., Loveland, Thomas R.

“…Landsat data constitute the longest record of global-scale medium spatial resolution earth observation data. As a result, the current methods for large area…”
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Mapping Annual Forest Cover in Sub-Humid and Semi-Arid Regions through Analysis of Landsat and PALSAR Imagery by Qin, Yuanwei, Xiao, Xiangming, Wang, Jie, Dong, Jinwei, Ewing, Kayti, Hoagland, Bruce, Hough, Daniel J, Fagin, Todd D, Zou, Zhenhua, Geissler, George L

“…Accurately mapping the spatial distribution of forests in sub-humid to semi-arid regions over time is important for forest management but a challenging task…”
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Conterminous United States Land-Cover Change (1985–2016): New Insights from Annual Time Series by Auch, Roger F., Wellington, Danika F., Taylor, Janis L., Stehman, Stephen V., Tollerud, Heather J., Brown, Jesslyn F., Loveland, Thomas R., Pengra, Bruce W., Horton, Josephine A., Zhu, Zhe, Midekisa, Alemayehu A., Sayler, Kristi L., Xian, George, Barber, Christopher P., Reker, Ryan R.

“…Sample-based estimates augmented by complete coverage land-cover maps were used to estimate area and describe patterns of annual land-cover change across the…”
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Influences of specific land use/land cover conversions on climatological normals of near-surface temperature by Hale, Robert C., Gallo, Kevin P., Loveland, Thomas R.

“…Quantification of the effects of land use/land cover (LULC) changes on proximal measurements of near‐surface air temperature is crucial to a better…”
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Land-use Pressure and a Transition to Forest-cover Loss in the Eastern United States by Drummond, Mark A, Loveland, Thomas R

“…Contemporary land-use pressures have a significant impact on the extent and condition of forests in the eastern United States, causing a regional-scale decline…”
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Opening the archive: How free data has enabled the science and monitoring promise of Landsat by Wulder, Michael A., Masek, Jeffrey G., Cohen, Warren B., Loveland, Thomas R., Woodcock, Curtis E.

“…Landsat occupies a unique position in the constellation of civilian earth observation satellites, with a long and rich scientific and applications heritage…”
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Current status of Landsat program, science, and applications by Wulder, Michael A., Loveland, Thomas R., Roy, David P., Crawford, Christopher J., Masek, Jeffrey G., Woodcock, Curtis E., Allen, Richard G., Anderson, Martha C., Belward, Alan S., Cohen, Warren B., Dwyer, John, Erb, Angela, Gao, Feng, Griffiths, Patrick, Helder, Dennis, Hermosilla, Txomin, Hipple, James D., Hostert, Patrick, Hughes, M. Joseph, Huntington, Justin, Johnson, David M., Kennedy, Robert, Kilic, Ayse, Li, Zhan, Lymburner, Leo, McCorkel, Joel, Pahlevan, Nima, Scambos, Theodore A., Schaaf, Crystal, Schott, John R., Sheng, Yongwei, Storey, James, Vermote, Eric, Vogelmann, James, White, Joanne C., Wynne, Randolph H., Zhu, Zhe

“…Formal planning and development of what became the first Landsat satellite commenced over 50 years ago in 1967. Now, having collected earth observation data…”
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Lessons learned implementing an operational continuous United States national land change monitoring capability: The Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP) approach by Brown, Jesslyn F., Tollerud, Heather J., Barber, Christopher P., Zhou, Qiang, Dwyer, John L., Vogelmann, James E., Loveland, Thomas R., Woodcock, Curtis E., Stehman, Stephen V., Zhu, Zhe, Pengra, Bruce W., Smith, Kelcy, Horton, Josephine A., Xian, George, Auch, Roger F., Sohl, Terry L., Sayler, Kristi L., Gallant, Alisa L., Zelenak, Daniel, Reker, Ryan R., Rover, Jennifer

“…Growing demands for temporally specific information on land surface change are fueling a new generation of maps and statistics that can contribute to…”
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Land use/land cover change effects on temperature trends at U.S. Climate Normals stations by Hale, Robert C., Gallo, Kevin P., Owen, Timothy W., Loveland, Thomas R.

“…Alterations in land use/land cover (LULC) in areas near meteorological observation stations can influence the measurement of climatological variables such as…”
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Preface: Time series analysis imagery special issue by Woodcock, Curtis E., Loveland, Thomas R., Herold, Martin

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A global reference database from very high resolution commercial satellite data and methodology for application to Landsat derived 30 m continuous field tree cover data by Pengra, Bruce, Long, Jordan, Dahal, Devendra, Stehman, Stephen V., Loveland, Thomas R.

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Web-enabled Landsat Data (WELD): Landsat ETM+ composited mosaics of the conterminous United States by Roy, David P., Ju, Junchang, Kline, Kristi, Scaramuzza, Pasquale L., Kovalskyy, Valeriy, Hansen, Matthew, Loveland, Thomas R., Vermote, Eric, Zhang, Chunsun

“…Since January 2008, the U.S. Department of Interior / U.S. Geological Survey have been providing free terrain-corrected (Level 1T) Landsat Enhanced Thematic…”
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A global reference database from very high resolution commercial satellite data and methodology for application to Landsat derived 30m continuous field tree cover data by Pengra, Bruce, Long, Jordan, Dahal, Devendra, Stehman, Stephen V., Loveland, Thomas R.

“…The methodology for selection, creation, and application of a global remote sensing validation dataset using high resolution commercial satellite data is…”
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