Message from our Program Manager
Dear LCLUCers, friends of LCLUC, international colleagues, Greetings for the New Year 2019. In keeping with the LCLUC tradition, I would like to summarize our past year achievements, mention some future plans and convey my best wishes to the whole LCLUC family and our friends around the world. The geographic focus on Asia with socio-economic aspects of land use has remained an integral part of the program until recently. However, the new solicitation is expanding the geographic interests of the program as you will see below. Along with the continued observations from the LCLUC workhorse mission – the Landsat program –, we have experienced a tremendous increase in the number of observations at landscape scale owing to our partner agency ESA’s Sentinel program. Our program, along with many colleagues over the world, is investing in developing multi-source methods in studying LCLUC. I appreciate contributions from each and every one of you in keeping the LCLUC a global outr