News Archive

May 2004

• GLCF attends ASPRS 2004 Denver Conference
• GLCF Launches New Website
• Landsat 7 ETM+ SLC-off Price Reduction and New Gap-filled Product
• The GLCF is a new member of the World Conservation Union (IUCN)

April 2004

• All 8,727 scenes of the 2000/ETM+ Landsat GeoCover collection are now available for free download

March 2004

• GLCF participates in Tech2004
• Paraguay land cover research results presented at AAG

February 2004

• GLCF presents prototype metrics tool to NASA working group

January 2004

• GLCF at NASA's Land Cover Land Use Change Meeting
• GLCF Participates in 12th Federation Meeting and SEEDS Working Group Kick-Off Meeting

December 2003

• GLCF PI visits Minister of Science and Technology for China

November 2003

• GLCF and DeLorme exchange spatial data and products

October 2003

• GLCF attends the Science Planning Meeting at Dumbarton Oaks
• GLCF presents at the UMD College of Computer Mathematical and Physical Sciences' Alumni Reunion

June 2003

• GLCF presents forest cover change study to Vice President elect of Paraguay

May 2003

• GLCF presents forest cover change study at event hosted by the Ambassador from Paraguay
• Landsat 7 suffers shutdown due to anomaly

April 2003

• GLCF has new Project Manager
• GLCF displays products at Design Center awards dinner

March 2003

• GLCF provides imagery in support of 2003 cocoa census
• Providing Satellite Imagery to the Developing World
• Data Reciprocity Standard Enters New Phase

February 2003

• GLCF supports PhD thesis study of Cameroon bush fires

January 2003

• GLCF hosts Earthsat's VP
• East - West Data Exchange

December 2002

• GLCF served more than a terabyte of data for the month of December 2002

November 2002

• Landsat 7 beta product for South America available for download off of GLCF site
• As part of ongoing regional studies of the Caribbean, GLCF is making available for free download Landsat 7 terrain-corrected coverage for all of the Caribbean ecosystem

October 2002

• GLCF acquired the entirety of the NOAA, NESDIS AVHRR Tape Archive
• GLCF is proud to announce the completion of our data migration and the release of a new version of ESDI, v1.3

September 2002

• Frank Lindsay of the GLCF attends the SCCE meeting in Houston

August 2002

• Deforestation Mapping Group undertakes a field campaign in Western Canada
• Treemaps Used to Visualize Data Holdings
• Contribution of 32 Landsat images

July 2002

• New metrics pages going on-line.
• John Townshend's field work in Paraguay.
• Data Migration Nears Completion.

June 2002

• Assisted doctoral-level graduate work concerning landscape change in neotropical forests.
• GLCF attends the third international conference on urban remote sensing.
• Decline of Coastal Marshes in the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays.