“The community was very vocal regarding the value of a free and open data policy.”

“We use Landsat images on a daily basis at SkyTruth for environmental monitoring.”

“I don’t think there’s any question about how important and how valuable MSS is.”

“Even though I have a book coming out about the Moon Landing, I’ll say it: Landsat is likely the greatest, most impactful, yet under-appreciated, accomplishment of the entire space age.”

“In many cases the Landsat archive has provided the only consistent source of information to monitor changes in the surface of the Earth.”

“Landsat is an invaluable tool for people working in our field of community wildfire safety.”

“With the full Landsat record available, we can finally look at really big problems, like the global carbon cycle.”

“We started with all of the Landsat images from the beginning of the [30-meter resolution era of the] Landsat program, so we could go back to 1984 and show how the surface of the planet had changed. It shows the changes in cities, the birth of cities. It shows flooding. It shows things like deforestation. It shows the incredible expansion of agriculture. There’s just so many things you get from that data set.”

“Landsat data is hugely important for society, science, and technology.”

“Landsat makes it possible to compare images over almost 5 decades and makes the role of climate change unmistakable in this incredibly beautiful mountainous part of Alaska.”

“It is a game changer for people who want to know the impact of a management action on particular piece of land, or how a dam affected the downstream area.”

“Landsat is key to a wide range of applications that support global glacier monitoring and elucidate the impacts of global climate change.”