The latest issue of the USGS Landsat Project Update is available on the USGS Landsat website. The 2009, Volume 3 Issue 2, includes the following articles:
+ 25 Years of Landsat 5—A Remarkable Satellite, A Unique Legacy
+ Landsat Free Archive Update—Stats and Interesting Items
+ Landsat Science Team Spotlight—Dr. Warren Cohen, U.S. Forest Service
+ Tips and Tricks—Creating a Gap Mask
+ Upcoming Meetings
+ EROS Authors in Recent Publications
+ LDCM News—Ball Aerospace Completes CDR for Landsat’s OLI
+ LDCM News—Landsat Science Team Meeting Held January 6-7, 2009
+ Landsat Images of Interest—Osaka Bay, Japan

Influencing Factors: Satellites Help Decipher the Fate of West Antartica
An international team of researchers has combined satellite imagery and climate and ocean records to obtain the most detailed understanding yet of how the West Antarctic Ice Sheet – which contains enough ice to raise global sea level by 3.3 metres – is responding to climate change.