Host Site Resources

Host Site Resources

Landsat Traveling Exhibit image
Congratulations on being selected to host Landsat: Seeing in a Different Light! Soon you’ll be exploring Earth through Landsat satellite images with visitors from your institution. Here you can find information on setting up the exhibit, evaluating the exhibit, and contact information for Landsat’s Education and Public Outreach team.

Application

Setting Up

Evaluation

See it for yourself and explore the exhibit before you apply:
+ Download PDF of Main Console (4.7 Mb)
+ Download PDF of Left Panel (2 Mb)
+ Download PDF of Right Panel (2.9 Mb)

On Key

Recent Posts

1911 USGS map

Creating an Oasis in the Desert: Lake Havasu City, Arizona, 1911

Humans have modified the landscape of Planet Earth in many ways. This modification is nothing new—it began as the earliest humans began burning of local grasslands to encourage new growth, tilling the soil for the first agricultural experiments, and building small dams to ensure a water source. Yet today’s changes are more frequent and also larger in area, from the construction of cities, reservoirs, and tunnels, to widespread land use change through the conversion of the natural land cover to cropland, grazing pastures, mining sites, and other uses.

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Cape Cod map 1885

Cape Cod, 1885

The sandy peninsula of Cape Cod, Massachusetts juts into the Atlantic Ocean with its characteristic crook and twirl in both images: “Balloon View–Nantucket to Boston” made in 1885, and a Landsat 8 satellite image made 129 years later in 2014. Aspirations to rise above the Earth and to record the Earth’s surface from there are a long-standing theme of human culture.

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Related Posts

1911 USGS map

Creating an Oasis in the Desert: Lake Havasu City, Arizona, 1911

Humans have modified the landscape of Planet Earth in many ways. This modification is nothing new—it began as the earliest humans began burning of local grasslands to encourage new growth, tilling the soil for the first agricultural experiments, and building small dams to ensure a water source. Yet today’s changes are more frequent and also larger in area, from the construction of cities, reservoirs, and tunnels, to widespread land use change through the conversion of the natural land cover to cropland, grazing pastures, mining sites, and other uses.

Read More »