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Landsat Abounds at #AGU16

By Laura E.P. Rocchio

Over 375 presentations at this year’s AGU Fall meeting feature research conducted with the aid of Landsat data. The wide scope and interdisciplinary nature of Landsat data is reflected in the gamut of focus areas that Landsat-related papers and posters can be found: from cryosphere to biogeoscience to hydrology to global environmental change to natural hazards to informatics.

This year we were fortunate to have the opportunity to speak with over thirty scientists, researchers, and students who use Landsat in their studies, the resulting Q&A’s will be posted here throughout the week.

photo of icebergs

Reassessing Mass Balance in West Antarctica

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How Louisiana’s Coastal Marshes are Responding to Climate Change

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The Eroding Hamlet of Paulatuk

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Watching Water Use in the Southwest

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Dust on a Glacier

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The Poleward March of Mangroves

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The Mechanics of Glacier Motion

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Glacier Behavior in High Mountain Asia

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How Fire Severity Impacts Soil Microbes

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The Shifting Boundary Between Grounded Continental Ice and the Ocean in West Antarctica

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Mapping Historic Floods Around the World

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A Spatial Toolbox to Help Deal with Flooding in Vietnam

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A Bounty of New Lakes on the Tibetan Plateau

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A New Fire Risk Indicator

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45 Years of Ecosystem Carbon Storage Change Across the U.S.

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Surveying Damage after Severe Weather Events

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Decline of the Last Glaciers in the Eastern Tropics

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A Glacierized Volcano in Peru & El Niño

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The 2015 Surge of Kelayayilake Glacier

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Mapping Snowmelt in the Arctic

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Mapping Cities Worldwide

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Springtime on a Urban Heat Island

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A More Detailed Map for Forest Managers

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Fingerprinting Carbon Loss in Pacific Northwest Forests

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Watching Water Dynamics

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Environmental Flows: Managing Water in the Murray Darling Basin

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Tracking Water Resources in California’s Central Valley

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A New Way to Map Glaciers

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Extreme Event: 2012-2015 Snowpack Drought in the Sierra Nevada Mountains

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A Map for Preserving a Sustainable Society

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How FastEmap is Helping Foresters

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The Secret Lives of Migrating Rivers

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Managing Brush on Western Rangelands

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Managing Water in Conflict-Torn Regions

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Mapping Croplands Over the U.S. High Plains Aquifer

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Uncertainty at the Forest’s Edge

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Mapping Dissolved Organic Matter in Tropical Inland Waters with Landsat 8

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Apalachicola’s Disappearing Swamp

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Creating a Volcanic Plume Elevation Model

Visit the 2016 AGU Fall Meeting website for more details, including the scientific program and virtual options.

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