NELDA (Northern Eurasia Land Dynamics Analysis) Project is supported by NASA-LCLUC Program to monitor and validate the distribution and change in land cover across Northern Eurasia. More info.

Team
Principal Investigator

• Olga N. Krankina, Oregon State University

Co-Investigators and collaborators - US-based

• Jeffrey G. Masek, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Mark A. Friedl, Boston University
• Curtis E. Woodcock, Boston University
• Damien Sulla-Menashe, Boston University
• Tatiana Loboda, University of Maryland
• Guoqing Sun, University of Maryland
• Warren B. Cohen, USFS PNW Research Station
• Dirk Pflugmacher, Oregon State University
• Peder Nelson, Oregon State University

Collaborators based in Northern Eurasia

• Egor Dyukarev - Tomsk, Siberian Center for Environmental Research & Training
• Vladimir Elsakov - Syktyvkar, Institute of Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Slava Kharuk - Krasnoyarsk, Institute of Forest of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Tobias Kuemmerle - Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (currently at University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• Alexander Maslov - Moscow, Research and Development Center SCANEX
• Alexey Terekhov - Almaty, Kazakhstan, National Center of Space Research and Technologies

The NELDA Legend was developed in line with FAO Land Cover Classification System for consistent representation of land cover on all test sites and the new continental map.