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The Landsat Program

This joint NASA/USGS program provides the longest continuous space-based record of Earth’s land in existence. Every day, Landsat satellites provide essential information to help land managers and policy makers make wise decisions about our resources and our environment. + Landsat Case Studies ebook

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A Trip Through Time With Landsat 9
Come along on a "roadtrip" through the decades to see how the technology on Landsat has evolved…
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Landsat Flipbook

Summer is time for Camp Landsat!

Join us as we count down to Landsat 9’s September launch with 9 weeks of fun activities at Camp Landsat. [...]
Landsat 9 wet dress rehearsal

Landsat 9: Dress Rehearsal of Launch Day Completed

The Wet Dress Rehearsal enabled engineers to evaluate how the Landsat 9 rocket and ground systems behave prior to launch. [...]
Fire elevation changes in US West

Climate Change Pushes Wildfires to New Heights

Wildfires in the western United States have been spreading to higher elevations over the past few decades due to warmer and drier [...]

“You can launch a new satellite, but you can’t put something up in the past. Landsat will always be that historic record that new satellites can tie themselves to.”

— Dr. Michael Wulder, Canadian Forest Service and Landsat Science Team member, Mar 13, 2020

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“I really believe that Landsat data made a change in how we perceive global change. All of the things we have done so far would not have been possible without the unique Landsat dataset”

— Dr. Patrick Hostert, Geomatics Lab, Humboldt University, Apr 18, 2018

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"Landsat satellite data are the most important source we have about how much deforestation happens each year across the Amazon."

— Doug Morton, Chief of the Biospheric Sciences Lab at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Apr 19, 2021

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“With a launch in 2023, Landsat 9 would propel the program past 50 years of collecting global land cover data. That’s the hallmark of Landsat: the longer the satellites view the Earth, the more phenomena you can observe and understand.”

— Jeff Masek, Landsat 9 Project Scientist, Apr 16, 2015

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"Because of Landsat’s global coverage and long history, it has become a reference point for all Earth observation work and is considered the gold standard of natural resource satellite imagery."

— Joe Flasher, Amazon Web Services, Inc., Nov 30, 2016

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"Satellite imagery can be used retrospectively, meaning that the data collected by satellites today will probably help solve issues we are not currently even aware of—an advantage which is invaluable."

— Nathalie Pettorelli, Zoological Society of London, Jun 10, 2015

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"I don’t think people appreciate just how revolutionary it was when the Landsat archive became available for free and really empowered researchers and advocates to have access to that data at an affordable price to be able to do the kind of mapping that's now been done, making visible what was previously invisible…”

— Frances Seymour, senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, Oct 2, 2018

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“The use of [Landsat] satellite imagery provides the means to monitor the agricultural water consumption over every square foot of land surface.”

— Ayse Kilic, University of Nebraska, Oct 14, 2015

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"This portal harnesses more than 37,000 images from Landsat archives, dating back to the early 1970s, to track changes in outlet glaciers over time."

— M. Scheinert Scheinert, Ralf Rosenau, and Benjamin Ebermann, Dec 29, 2016

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“I saw more use of Landsat as the gold standard of calibration than I’ve ever seen in the past. Most of the commercial vendors I heard from called out Landsat as the gold standard. Even the European vendors called out Landsat, which I thought was unique."

— Greg Stensaas, manager of the Requirements, Capabilities and Analysis for Earth Observation (RCA-EO) project and JACIE coordinator for EROS, Oct 5, 2018

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