Yasuní National Park, Ecuador

Yasuní National Park

Jonathan Greenberg's dissertation research is focusing on the application of canopy, successional, and human land use models and remote sensing imagery to the understanding and prediction of forest change in the lowland rainforests of eastern Ecuador. This project has been funded through the NASA Earth System Science Fellowship, the CALSPACE grant and the Gifford Center for Population Issues.

Satellite imagery is being made available free of charge to interested researchers in the hopes of facilitating research and advancing conservation goals in Ecuador. If you would like to download LANDSAT MSS, TM or ETM+ or ASTER scenes, primarily from path/row 9/60, although I do have a few from 9/61, 8/60 and 8/61, please email me (greenberg@ucdavis.edu).

The following is a partial list of available scenes.

Sensor	Date	Path/Row	Lat/Long	Preview*	Download Location** / Size	Notes
LANDSAT TM	8/23/1986	9/60		4.3 MB	CSTARS (156 MB)
LANDSAT TM	8/7/1989	9/60			GLCF
LANDSAT TM	10/19/1995	9/60			GLCF
LANDSAT TM	10/21/1996	9/60			GLCF
LANDSAT ETM+	1/26/2000	9/60			Offline
LANDSAT ETM+	11/9/2000	9/60			GLCF
LANDSAT ETM+	8/24/2001	9/60			CSTARS (277 MB)	Reflectance calibrated scene available (ACORN)
LANDSAT ETM+	9/9/2001	9/60			GLCF
LANDSAT ETM+	9/12/2002	9/60		5.0 MB	GLCF
LANDSAT ETM+	10/14/2002	9/60			GLCF
LANDSAT ETM+	2/19/2003	9/60			GLCF

* Preview is in GIF format (RGB = LANDSAT bands 6,5,3) and covers only the Yasuni Park region.

** Download sites:

GLCF: Most of my images were taken from the GLCF website. Not all of the scenes they have available are searchable, so I have provided the FTP path to find them. For LANDSAT 4-7, the general path is ftp.glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/glcf/Landsat/WRS2/p009/r060/. If the links above do not work in your browser, you probably need to use an FTP program or command line ftp to access the site (I couldn't use IE 5 on MacOS X to access the ftp site). I don't think GLCF allows passive ftp access.
CSTARS: These are images I have made available on our server in the CSTARS lab at UC Davis. You must contact me (greenberg@ucdavis.edu) to get a login and password for these scenes. I have ZIPped them to save space.
Offline: I haven't uploaded them yet, but I can if anyone requests them. Email me!

I have written a short guide to orienting yourself in the image using the 1986 and 2002 preview images. Use this if you have no idea what you are looking at!

Note to researchers: if you have GIS or RS data to share (say, georectification points or land cover points), please contact me and I'll post them on this site! I can password protect the data if neccessary.

Enjoy some unsorted galleries of photographs taken during our recent field season (1 August through 7 October 2001) to Yasuní National Park in eastern Ecuador.

Note: All photographs are property of the photographers and can not be used or reproduced in any way without the explicit permission of the photographer.