Geophysicists examining glacier changes in the Russian Arctic have found that the rate of ice mass loss has nearly doubled over the last decade when compared to records from the previous 60 years.
Researchers armed with data from the Landsat Earth-observing satellites recently teamed up with Google to track water used for irrigation.
A team of Norwegian-based researchers has developed an innovative way to describe how much land it takes to generate a kilowatt-hour of electricity from hydropower.
Martha Anderson talks about the value of Landsat and its thermal data for understanding agricultural lands.
Leif Olmanson talks about the value of Landsat data for monitoring the thousands of lakes in Minnesota.
Using data from Landsat and Sentinel-2, UNESCO is providing freshwater quality information at the global scale.
John Schott discusses using Landsat Data over the years and how its thermal data tracks temperature changes in water bodies.
The area of mangrove wetlands around the world has been declining over recent decades.
Using Landsat to measure river widths around the world.
Elmore delves into the changing phenology of forests and how that impacts the amount of carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere.
Learn more about the huge citizen science kelp mapping endeavor called Floating Forests.
A method for mapping coral reefs or other benthic habitats over time.
Ways to better estimate the greenhouse gas contributions of wetlands.
Quantifying the impact of historic land-use and hydroclimatic variability on landscape connectivity dynamics across Australia’s breadbasket.
Monitoring surface water trends in North Western Canada.
Thirty-one years of observed water use trends in the Southwestern U.S.
Learn more about a water quality modeling tool known as SPARROW.
A new map was released today detailing croplands worldwide in the highest resolution yet.
Dr. Alan Belward describes water changes around Iran’s Karkheh River between 1993-2002.
Researchers detail their use of satellite images to produce annual maps of irrigation.
Alan Belward from the European Union’s Joint Research Center discusses how Landsat helps his team promote sustainable development.
In the first study of its kind, researchers from the University of Maine have demonstrated that Landsat 8 satellite data can be used to find locations where oysters farms should thrive.
USGS’ pixel-by-pixel land use forecasts offer essential road maps for restoration.
Using 28 years of Landsat data, an Australian research team has created a continent-wide intertidal zone extent map for the whole of the Australian coast.
With the growing frequency and magnitude of toxic freshwater algal blooms becoming an increasingly worrisome public health concern, Carnegie scientists Jeff Ho and Anna Michalak, along with colleagues, have made new advances in understanding the drivers behind Lake Erie blooms and their implications for lake restoration.
Drought and reduced seasonal flooding of wetlands and farm fields threaten a globally important stopover site for tens of thousands of migratory shorebirds in California’s Sacramento Valley, a new Duke University-led study shows.
Documenting and protecting wetlands has become crucial to the eight states and two Canadian provinces thronging the Great Lakes.
Scientists are providing a near-real-time view of every large glacier and ice sheet on Earth with Landsat 8.
Using Landsat 8 to map the colored dissolved organic matter of inland tropical waters.
The hardwood swamp along the Apalachicola River is slowly replaced by bottomland hardwood forest.
Using Landsat to map croplands over the U.S. High Plains Aquifer.
Understanding the relationship between land use and river flows in the Yarmouk basin.
The avalanching dynamics of meandering rivers.
