56 Landsat Images Provided to International Charter in November 2015

November 30, 2015

The Charter concept is this: a single phone number is made available to authorized parties providing 24/7 contact to a person who can activate the charter. Once activated, a project manager takes charge. The project manager knows what satellite resources are available, how to task them to collect data, and how to quickly analyze the collected data to create impact maps for first responders. These maps, provided to responders for free, often show where the damage is and where crisis victims are, allowing responders to plan and execute relief support.

Recounting Recent Fire History of Everglades National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve

November 30, 2015

When you think of Southern Florida’s vast everglades, fire is not something that usually comes to mind, but the region has a long history of seasonal fires.

Animating the “Karakoram Anomaly” with Landsat

November 27, 2015

Capitalizing on the long Landsat data record and the human brain’s capacity to recognize movement, Frank Paul from the University of Zurich has created glacier animations that enable viewers to witness the complex flow of glaciers.

"Landsat—Earth Observation Satellites" a New USGS Fact Sheet

November 25, 2015

The USGS Publications Warehouse, has just published a new Landsat fact sheet, that briefly describes Landsat’s history, and provides information about satellite acquisitions, sensor and band designations, applications of Landsat data, Landsat data products and processing, obtaining Landsat data products, and the Landsat Science Team.

Landsat 9 Project Scientist Talks Carbon During Reddit AMA

November 17, 2015

On Nov. 12, Jeff Masek, the NASA Landsat 9 Project Scientist, participated in a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) session, part of the AskScience AMA Series. Masek was one of three participating NASA scientists studying the role of carbon on Earth’s climate.

A Remote Sensing Tutorial from World Bank Group

November 16, 2015

In a effort to help sustainable development professionals learn more about Earth observation resources that can help with their work, the World Bank Group released an informational website focused on remote sensing.

Case Studies in Carbon and Climate

November 16, 2015

Every part of the mosaic of Earth’s surface — ocean and land, Arctic and tropics, forest and grassland — absorbs and releases carbon in a different way. Wild-card events such as massive wildfires and drought complicate the global picture even more. To better predict future climate, we need to understand how Earth’s ecosystems will change as the climate warms and how extreme events will shape and interact with the future environment.

DOI & Mexico Sign Agreement to Share Landsat Data

November 13, 2015

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, leading the U.S. delegation to the 2015 Ministerial Summit of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), today signed an agreement with Mexico serving as a regional milestone for international cooperation in using land-surface satellite images for the benefit of effective land use planning and sustainability.

Free Data Proves Its Worth for Observing Earth

November 13, 2015

Since late 2008, when Landsat earth observation images were made available to all users free of charge, nearly 30 million Landsat scenes have been downloaded through the U.S. Geological Survey portal – and the rate of downloads is still increasing.

Half a Year, Half a Billion Landsat Data Requests

November 12, 2015

On March 19, 2015 Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that it was hosting Landsat 8 imagery. With the help of USGS and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, AWS started with a collection of over 85,000 Landsat 8 scenes.

New Landsat Data Set: Russian Boreal Forest Disturbance Maps

November 12, 2015

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Distributed Active Archiving Center (DAAC) released a series of boreal forest disturbance maps derived from Landsat for the 1984–2000 time period.

A String of Pearls Viewed From Space

November 12, 2015

A Landsat mosaic of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed was unveiled at a Nov. 12 String of Pearls ceremony in Easton, Maryland.

Picture This: Newly Released Photo Catalog Puts U.S. Landscapes On Exhibit

November 9, 2015

The U.S. Geological Survey announced today that it has made part of a huge national repository of geographically referenced USGS field photographs publicly available. USGS geographers developed a simple, easy-to-use mapping portal called the Land Cover Trends Field Photo Map.

Urbanization Affects Air and Water in Italy's Po Plain

November 1, 2015

In a recent Eos Project Update, a group of researchers from Italy and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab shared the results of their large Po Plain Experiment (POPLEX).

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