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Multi-Source Land Imaging (MuSLI)

Background

The current focus is to promote and enhance the use of multiple sensor data at high-to-moderate space resolution allowing for more clear-sky observations to study landscape changes over the globe and develop continental and global higher level LCLUC products. The Landsat and ESA Sentinel programs are both providing users free access to their data. This and the availability of two Landsats (-7 and -8), two Sentinel-2 (a and b) and two Sentinel-1 (a and b - radars) all currently in space opens a new era for dense time series research at 10-30m spatial resolution studying forest, agriculture and urban processes with observations every 2-3 days, provided the sky is clear. The Multi-Source Land Imaging (MuSLI) team under the LCLUC program is focused on developing innovative approaches using multiple sensor data for continental and global products. A recent call for MuSLI proposals will result in a new team during fall 2017. There is a plan to coordinate and combine these activities with the new Landsat Science Team that will be formed by USGS in late 2017. 

The Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 harmonized surface reflectance product is well under way. The details regarding this project are available at: https://hls.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Tools

Version 2.0 Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 registration software https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/landsat_sentinel_registration/2/

Current MuSLI Projects

TITLE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR INSTITUTION PROJECT START DATE
Detecting and Mapping War-Induced Damage to Agricultural Sergii Skakun University of Maryland 01/01/2024
Quantifying Connections Between Urban LCLUC and Emerging Glynn Hulley Jet Propulsion Laboratory 01/01/2024
Multiscale Monitoring of Drought-Induced Forest Mortality by Jonathan Wang University of Utah 01/01/2024
Tropical Forest Degradation and Regeneration in the Michael Keller USDA Forest Service, Jet Propulsion Laboratory 01/01/2024
Multi-Source, Multi-Resolution Imaging of Urban Land Cover Michael Wimberly University of Oklahoma, Norman 01/01/2024
Urbanization and Fire Risk at the Global Karen Seto Yale University 01/01/2024
Pre- and Post- Wildfire Analysis in Mediterranean Nimrod Carmon Jet Propulsion Laboratory 01/01/2024
Exploring the Nexus between LCLUC, Socio-Economic Factors, Saurav Kumar Arizona State University 08/01/2023
Disentangling Land-Use Change in Central Africa to Elsa Ordway University of California, Los Angeles 02/01/2023
Drivers and constraints of land cover land Lin Yan Michigan State University 01/01/2023
Land Cover Land Use Change, Conflict, and McKenzie F. Johnson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 02/01/2022
A multi-faceted, pan-Mediterranean assessment of urban land Tzu-Hsin Karen Chen University of Washington 01/03/2022
Early Estimation of Fire-Risk in the Eastern Nimrod Carmon Jet Propulsion Laboratory 01/01/2022
Agricultural abandonment across the Eurasian steppe: effect Volker Radeloff University of Wisconsin-Madison 09/01/2021
Global Hotspots of Change in Mangrove Forests Marc Simard Caltech/ Jet Propulsion Laboratory 03/10/2021
Quantifying agricultural expansion and tropical forest degradation Michael Keller USDA Forest Service, Jet Propulsion Laboratory 02/08/2021
Multi-resolution quantification and driver assessment of hot Alexandra Tyukavina University of Maryland, College Park 01/01/2021
Hotspot Detection for Monitoring New Trends in David Skole Michigan State University 01/01/2021
Where are the missing burned areas? Global David Roy Michigan State University 01/01/2021
High-Impact Hot Spots of Land Cover Land Sergii Skakun University of Maryland 01/01/2021
The last urban frontier: Assessing drivers of Jody C. Vogeler Colorado State University 01/01/2021
Global Hotspots of the Wildland Urban Volker Radeloff University of Wisconsin-Madison 01/01/2021
Sensor fusion using daily Planet imagery allows Sean Healey United States Forest Service 01/01/2021
Multi-source Wildland Urban Interface Characterization Enhanced with Yufang Jin UC Davis 01/01/2021
Making the Hidden Visible: Accelerated Land-Use Change Nicholas Magliocca The University of Alabama 01/01/2021
The Impact of Investment on Irrigated Rice, Christopher Neigh NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 01/01/2021
Toward near real-time monitoring of forest disturbance Joshua M Gray North Carolina State University 09/01/2020
Developing novel GPP estimation for crops at Kaiyu Guan University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign 09/01/2020
Divergent Local Responses to Globalization: Urbanization, Land Peilei Fan Tufts University 03/23/2020
Forced and Truncated Agrarian Transitions in Asia Lin Yan Michigan State University 01/01/2020

Project Presentations

TITLE PRESENTER MEETING
Harmonized Landsat/Sentinel-2 (HLS) Update Jeff Masek 2017 LCLUC Spring Science Team Meeting (Apr. 12th - 13th) and MuSLI Meeting (April 14th)
Operational algorithms and products for near real time maps of rice extent and rice crop growth stage using multi-source remote sensing Nathan Torbick 2017 LCLUC Spring Science Team Meeting (Apr. 12th - 13th) and MuSLI Meeting (April 14th)
Multisource Imaging of Seasonal Dynamics in Land Surface Phenology Mark Friedl 2017 LCLUC Spring Science Team Meeting (Apr. 12th - 13th) and MuSLI Meeting (April 14th)
Atmospheric correction update and ACIX status Eric Vermote 2017 LCLUC Spring Science Team Meeting (Apr. 12th - 13th) and MuSLI Meeting (April 14th)
Towards Near Daily Monitoring of Inundated Areas over North America through Multi-Source Fusion of Optical and Radar Data Chengquan Huang 2017 LCLUC Spring Science Team Meeting (Apr. 12th - 13th) and MuSLI Meeting (April 14th)
Sentinel 2 data accessibility and archive for US MuSLI investigators John Dwyer 2017 LCLUC Spring Science Team Meeting (Apr. 12th - 13th) and MuSLI Meeting (April 14th)
Prototyping a Landsat-8 Sentinel-2 global burned area product David Roy 2017 LCLUC Spring Science Team Meeting (Apr. 12th - 13th) and MuSLI Meeting (April 14th)
Multi-source imaging of time-series tree and water cover at continental to global scales Joe Sexton 2017 LCLUC Spring Science Team Meeting (Apr. 12th - 13th) and MuSLI Meeting (April 14th)
Current Achievements of ESA CCI Land Cover and Sentinel-2 for Agriculture projects Francois Waldner 2017 LCLUC Spring Science Team Meeting (Apr. 12th - 13th) and MuSLI Meeting (April 14th)
Multi-source imaging of infrastructure and urban growth using Landsat, Sentinel and SRTM Chris Small 2017 LCLUC Spring Science Team Meeting (Apr. 12th - 13th) and MuSLI Meeting (April 14th)
Integrating Landsat 7, 8 and Sentinel 2 data in improving crop type identification and area estimation Xiaopeng Song 2017 LCLUC Spring Science Team Meeting (Apr. 12th - 13th) and MuSLI Meeting (April 14th)