It started as an algorithm to detect clouds in satellite imagery, but now the software is being used for everything from increasing food security in the developing world to guiding futures trading on Wall Street.
The Landsat-based Rangeland Analysis Platform and Green-Cast are valuable tools for ranchers adaptively managing their land.
USGS EROS scientists are leveraging the capability and history of Landsat along with weather data to map landscape-wide water consumption.
Landsat thermal bands allow for the measurement of water use and moisture status at the management scale.
A new method to use the full Landsat archive to produce annual maps of irrigated area over the High Plains Aquifer in the central United States.
Making annual high-resolution agricultural subsurface drainage maps for the Northern Great Plains regions using multiple satellite and model datasets with Google Earth Engine.
A robust detection method to track crop cover dynamics and identify the planting year through Landsat time series data.
Boston-based startup TellusLabs uses Landsat and MODIS images to predict corn and soy yields with remarkable accuracy.
When it comes to water, when does less really mean more?
Researchers armed with data from the Landsat Earth-observing satellites recently teamed up with Google to track water used for irrigation.
Patrick Hostert from the University of Berlin discusses the value of Landsat’s long archive to studying phenology.
Scientists have proven a new technique for distinguishing the corn and soybean crops using satellite data and the processing power of supercomputers.
Martha Anderson talks about the value of Landsat and its thermal data for understanding agricultural lands.
A new program uses Landsat satellite data to automatically categorize what’s on the ground more accurately than other land cover products.
Thirty-one years of observed water use trends in the Southwestern U.S.
A new map was released today detailing croplands worldwide in the highest resolution yet.
Researchers detail their use of satellite images to produce annual maps of irrigation.
A new initiative called Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection provides definitive, timely information on how, why, and where the planet is changing.
A team of economists from the USGS Fort Collins Science Center has published a new report on Landsat imagery use in agriculture.
Using Landsat to map croplands over the U.S. High Plains Aquifer.