At CCRS, scientists are developing cost-effective and automated methods using satellite imagery, ancillary data, and in situ data that produce nationally consistent products, which represent the land cover and other land surface information.

• Local Environmental Applications Program (LEAP)
  Providing local environmental solutions through research in areas such as change detection, linear feature monitoring, spectral and spatial characterization, vegetation indices, classification and landscape metrics
• Biophysical Measurements from Satellite
  (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, Leaf Area Index, Net Primary Productivity)
• Seasonal changes of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) over the Southern Great Plains (U.S.)
• Boreal Ecosystems Productivity Simulator (BEPS)
  A remote sensing approach to quantifying the terrestrial carbon cycle
• Data Correction Products
  Normalized Surface Reflectance, Surface Temperature, NDVI, Correction for Bi-Directional Effects, Cloud Mask Correction
• Radiation Products
  Surface Radiation Budget, Albedo at the Top of the Atmosphere
• Vegetation Products
  Greenness, Growing season length, Leaf area index, Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR), Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (APAR), Primary productivity
• Net Primary Productivity Estimation
  Using Boreal Ecosystem Productivity Simulator and Remote Sensing Inputs
• Land Cover Map of Canada

• The Boreal Ecosystem - Atmosphere Study
• Monitoring Canadian Vegetation from Satellites
• Remote Sensing Datasets for Global Climate Modelling
• Land Cover
• Evapotranspiration

• Selected CCRS publications on Land Cover
• Complete CCRS scientific publications database