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The preliminary report to the Future Land Imaging Working Group on The American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Survey on the Future of Land Imaging is now available (via the Applied-GIS-RS mailing list). From the presentation: "Goals of the survey: - To estimate the societal benefits of US moderate resolution data. - To better understand current operational and research uses of moderate resolution data. - To identify user requirements in moderate resolution technology and data policy" There is a clear focus on the Landsat satellite in the survey.

The Applied-GIS-RS mailing list informs us with the following: "ASPRS [American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing], in cooperation with NOAA and the U.S. Geological Survey, is continuing to update and expand the Ten-Year Remote Sensing Industry Forecast. The focus of Phase V of the Forecast is to refine and revalidate earlier findings and to obtain more specific information concerning sources and applications for a wide variety of users but with special emphasis on those working with international sources or on non-US applications. We would sincerely appreciate it if you would help us to help the profession by taking approximately 15 minutes of your time to complete the Phase V survey at http://www.asprs.org/phaseVsurvey. All survey data is confidential in that you are not required to identify yourself or your organization at any point during the survey. Additional information about the ASPRS Forecast, including the report of phase IV, is available at http://www.asprs.org/news/forecast/. Questions or comments regarding this survey should be addressed to Charles Mondello, Project Team Chair, at forecastATATasprsDOTDOTorg." See also results from previous survey below.

Via AGISRS, here's two updates on the GlobCover dataset which provides free 300m-resolution land-use land-cover of global coverage. We discussed GlobCover about a year ago, the source data is not available but should be this coming July. You can browse the whole world GlobCover LULC data using the tool in the links above. From the ESA article: "Earth’s land cover has been charted from space before, but this map, which will be made available to the public upon its completion in July, has a resolution 10 times sharper than any of its predecessors. Scientists, who will use the data to plot worldwide land-cover trends, study natural and managed ecosystems and to model climate change extent and impacts, are hailing the product – generated under the ESA-initiated GlobCover project – as 'a milestone.'" See other LULC related stories below.