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By Garik Gutman, Anthony C. Janetos, Christopher O. Justice, Emilio F. Moran, John F. Mustard, Ronald R. Rindfuss, David Skole, Billy Lee Turner II, Mark A. Cochrane

This booklet constitutes a synthesis of the NASA funded paintings given that 1996 on Land Use and Land disguise switch learn. This publication is a suite of papers in keeping with the initiatives performed, for the main half, below the NASA Land-Cover and Land-Use swap application in the course of contemporary years with an emphasis on tasks that comprised the 1st part of this system (1996-2001). It represents a compilation of cutting-edge study effects dedicated to alterations in land conceal and land use, an research in their factors, tools for his or her detection, their tracking, their affects on weather and surroundings, and classes realized. this is often the main equipped attempt to appreciate the dominant strength that has been chargeable for altering the Earth?s biosphere. As such, the implications are of either medical and coverage curiosity. The examine of land use is required to supply the clinical underpinning for enhanced land use determination making.

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A number of LCLUC projects have been endorsed by the LUCC Program. Recently, LCLUC and LUCC have jointly established an international colloquium series consisting of periodic conferences on topics of mutual interest to both programs. The LCLUC program recognizes the importance of establishing the global observing systems needed for the long-term monitoring of land cover and land use and through its research program is developing and demonstrating the methods required for such a system. NASA primarily develops and tests aerospace technology.

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