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Within the context of a study to model the effects of land use on carbon storage in thePacific Northwest region of the United States we are processing about 100 Landsatimages. The image processing challenges within the study are numerous. To determinethe utility of our proposed methods many of our them are being tested on a 1.2 Mhaarea within the region. The major challenges include mapping of forest cover type andseral stage, radiometric and geometric rectification, and change detection. In this paperwe present preliminary results.