Wetlands worldwide are vanishing at an alarming rate. New satellite-informed maps produced by ESA’s GlobWetland Africa project show how satellite observations can be used for the effective use and management of wetlands in Africa.
There is a dance between the vegetation that thrives along a river’s edge and the availability of water; with Landsat, that relationship is now being understood in ways not previously possible.
Fires in forested watersheds that support drinking water supplies can introduce contaminants that overwhelm current treatment capabilities. Earth observation data are helping.
New Mexico is one of the most arid states in the US, and precise and accurate information on water use is of utmost importance.
Landsat has enabled a more thorough understanding of how the Central Valley landscape is impacted by floods.
Landsat has helped map the expansion of intensive agriculture in arid Arequipa, Peru.
The intensity of summer algal blooms has increased over the past three decades, according to a first-ever global survey of dozens of large, freshwater lakes.
Harnessing 30 years of Landsat data, a team of researchers from Australia has created the first 3D model of Australia’s entire coastline.
With limited resources to dedicate to monitoring for harmful algal blooms, water managers are looking to new technologies from NASA and its partners to detect and monitor potential hazards in lakes and reservoirs.
A group of researchers have used Landsat data to help solve a case of missing mangroves in Saudi Arabia’s Jubail Conservation.
Remarkably little is known about the subsurface connections between the thousands of lakes scattered across ecoregions like Yukon Flats; this study sheds light on those lakes.
Turns out, the rate of river migration is directly linked to how sharp its bends are.
The study used machine-learning to analyze more than 700,000 Landsat images to map changing global distribution of intertidal areas over a 30-year period.
USGS EROS scientists are leveraging the capability and history of Landsat along with weather data to map landscape-wide water consumption.
For larger rivers, Landsat provides a rich dataset to define spatiotemporal patterns of channel shifting.
Landsat thermal bands allow for the measurement of water use and moisture status at the management scale.
A new method to use the full Landsat archive to produce annual maps of irrigated area over the High Plains Aquifer in the central United States.
Landsat 8 allows for the acquisition of spectral data for monitoring water quality from lakes and drinking water reservoirs across the United States.
Stable river islands locally known as ‘chars’ are increasing in the Brahmaputra river.
This research identified the Delmarva as an area of significant salt marsh loss over the last three decades.
Making annual high-resolution agricultural subsurface drainage maps for the Northern Great Plains regions using multiple satellite and model datasets with Google Earth Engine.
There is evidence of oyster reefs driving estuary-scale detention of freshwater in the Suwannee Sound.
Increasingly, water managers are turning to satellites like Landsat to monitor inland waters.
Australian researchers have used Landsat imagery to map coastal habitats critical to threatened and migratory species in northern Australia.
Find out how Landsat imagery has been used by the National Water Census and in studying water use trends.
A Landsat 8 image of the Suwannee River meeting the Gulf of Mexico took first place in this year’s Envisioning Science image competition held by NC State.
Multi-year comparison of Landsat images can unmask previously unknown geography.
Using 30 years of Landsat data, a team of scientists and engineers from the Netherlands determined how Earth’s sandy beaches are changing.
When algae blanket a lake’s surface, loss of sunlight and—eventually—oxygen, smothers aquatic life.
Using a quarter century of Landsat data, geospatial researchers have mapped and modeled how vegetation responds to water availability across the entire Murray-Darling Basin.
Using Landsat 8 satellite images from 2014 to 2016, researchers have discerned when the lakes on Greenland’s Petermann ice tongue formed, their movement, and changes in surface extent across time.
Earth’s wet land areas are getting wetter and dry areas are getting drier due to a variety of factors, including human water management, climate change and natural cycles.
When it comes to water, when does less really mean more?
