Beef Productivity Study Utilizes Landsat
November 30, 2011
In an effort to help Australian beef producers determine if intensive grazing systems are needed to remain competitive, a new report has analyzed various grazing
In an effort to help Australian beef producers determine if intensive grazing systems are needed to remain competitive, a new report has analyzed various grazing
Source: The Earth Observer, Nov.-Dec. 2011 Tom Loveland, the USGS Landsat Science Team Co-chair opened the August Landsat Science Team meeting with a review of
On Nov. 18 USGS suspended Landsat 5 imaging activities in order to explore options for restoring satellite-to-ground image transmissions. It remains to be seen if
Source: ESA Over 30 years of archived data from the U.S. Landsat Earth-observing satellites are now available, free of charge from the European Space Agency. The
The EarthSky science news broadcast network has won two major awards for excellence. On Nov. 4, 2011 it was announced that The Council of Colleges
NASA’s Earth-observing satellites in the Landsat program have demonstrated the capabilities of remote sensing on a global scale and provided previously unavailable data on global
Space News recently reported on the data continuity theme that permeated the Landsat press briefing held last week at the Pecora 18 conference in Herdon, Va.
Source: Charlene Porter, U.S. Embassy Population analysts estimated that world population exceeded 7 billion in October and now marches onward to 8 billion. With every passing
Source: USGS The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has stopped acquiring images from the 27-year-old Landsat 5 Earth observation satellite due to a rapidly degrading electronic component.
Contributor: Aries Keck, NASA Goddard With seven billion people now living on Earth, the expanding demand for resources is exerting unprecedented pressure on global resources,
Expanding demand from a growing world population — now numbered at over 7 billion — exerts unprecedented pressure on global resources, especially forests, water, and
In an era when receipt of images from Earth-orbiting satellites is “routine”, it’s hard to recall that a few short decades ago this wasn’t the
Contributor: Vicky Fakan, USAID USAID has long been a major actor helping to conserve Guinea’s forest reserves, which replenish many of West Africa’s life-sustaining waterways. Now,
When people think of NASA, the first thing that comes to mind is probably an image of astronauts floating around the International Space Station, or
The NASA Agency Program Management Council unanimously approved the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) to proceed to into Phase D following a Key Decision Point-D
The USGS Landsat Update is now available. Articles include: Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook: Social Media comes to Landsat WELD Project: Web-Enabled Landsat Data Meetings: International Scientists join
Source: Ellen Gray The Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) that will fly on the next Landsat satellite came out of its first round of thermal vacuum testing
