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Urban Remote Sensing Resources

A compilation of SEDAC-sponsored and other publications and reports  focusing on remote sensing applications in urban areas, as well as providing links to useful resources.

Remote Sensing and Environmental Treaties: Building More Effective Linkages

Reports, publications, and information related to the worksho on Remote Sensing and Environmental Treaties: Building More Effective Linkages held December 2000 at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, D.C.

Remote Sensing Technologies for Ecosystem Management Treaties

A project focused on the utilization of satellite remote sensing data to improve the effectiveness of ecosystem-oriented multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs), with a focused case study on a Ramsar Wetland and Man and Biosphere Reserve that straddles the Brazil-Uruguay border.

Urban Landsat

The Urban Landsat collection contains images for 66 urban areas and the raw, unerlying data for 28 of these places. Each image shows a Landsat false color composite in UTM projection. The R/G/B layers correspond to TM/ETM+ bands 7/4/2. Each pixel is 30x30 meters in area and most images are 30x30 km in area.