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.

STELLA: A DIY Handheld Scientific Instrument
If you are looking for a do-it-yourself (DIY) handheld spectrometer, you need to meet STELLA. STELLA (Science and Technology Education for Land/Life Assessment) is a portable scientific instrument developed by