The Landsat Science Team Meeting was held at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) Center for Imaging Science in Rochester, New York between June 22–24, 2009. The meeting’s agenda included: working group reports (global archive consolidation, data gap, future missions, surface reflectance/temperature, gridded data, and cloud masks); science team reports; and Landsat 5, 7, and LDCM status reports. For a full report, check the USGS LDCM website.

Above the Earth, Below the Surface: Landsat’s Role in Monitoring Water Quality
Safeguarding freshwater resources is crucial, and while scientists use a variety of ground-based techniques to gauge water quality, the Landsat program has provided water quality data from orbit for decades.