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Updated 15 December 2006

OUR CHANGING PLANET
The U.S. Climate Change Science Program
for Fiscal Year 2007

A Report by the Climate Change Science Program and
The Subcommittee on Global Change Research
A Supplement to the President's Fiscal Year 2007 Budget

Figure 27.  Urbanization and Net Primary Productivity.

OCP07-Fig-27

The top product provides an urbanization map generated from Defense Meteorological Satellite (DMSP) Operational Linescan System data collected from October 1994 to March 1995, showing urban, peri-urban, and non-urban areas. The lower product simulates total annual net primary production for the United States at 1-km spatial resolution. Credit: M.L. Imhoff, NASA/ Goddard Space Flight Center (reproduced from Remote Sensing of Environment with permission from Elsevier Inc.).

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