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Landsat 5 Satellite Sees Mississippi River Floodwaters Lingering
On May 19, 2011, the Mississippi River reached a historic crest at Vicksburg. By early June flooding had receded but water remains high.
Meet the “Scene Select Mechanism”—Part of the LDCM Thermal Infrared Sensor
Special Topics: LDCM and LDCM Components The Scene Select Mechanism is an apparatus that rotates the LDCM Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) mirror among three scenes: the Earth view (“nadir;” when
Landsat 5 Satellite Sees Mississippi River Floodwaters Lingering
In a Landsat 5 satellite image captured June 11, 2011, flooding is still evident both east and west of the Mississippi River near Vicksburg, Miss. Standing water is most apparent,
Learning about Landsat In Lawrence, Kansas
Landsat Project Science staff provided a presentation on the Landsat program and the Landsat Data Continuity Mission at the Haskell Indians Nation University in Lawrence, Kansas on Thursday, June 9.
Arizona Wildfire Sweeps Through Apache National Forest
Source: Jan Nelson, USGS / Rob Gutro, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center The second largest fire in Arizona history, the Wallow Fire is graphically depicted by this Landsat image, taken
Landsat 5 Sees Tornado Track near Sturbridge, Massachusetts
Source: Michon Scott, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center On June 1, 2011, a supercell thunderstorm developed over western Massachusetts. The storm produced an EF3 tornado that cut a 39-mile (63-kilometer)
USGS Hosts the 20th Landsat Technical Working Group meeting.
Source: USGS This year’s Landsat Technical Working Group (LTWG#20) meeting was held in Sioux Falls, SD, USA, May 23-27, 2011. Participants from 17 countries, including members of the USGS and NASA
Landsat Science Team Recompete
Source: Meridith Potts, U.S. Geological Survey The USGS released a presolicitation for the Landsat Science Team recompete on the Federal Business Opportunities website June 6th. The presolicitation explains that the
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Tracking Forest Loss More Accurately with Landsat
In an article released late this month in Environmental Research Letters, authors Mark Broich, Matthew Hansen, Fred Stolle, Peter Potapov, Belinda Arunarwati Margono, and Bernard Adusei examined interannual forest cover loss
USGS Releases Report on Uses, Users, and Value of Landsat
The USGS has released one of its Numbered Series Publications focusing on the uses, users, and value of Landsat data. The 42 page report by social scientists at the USGS
Landsat Finds a Home in the Proposed FY 2012 Budget
The President’s Proposed FY 2012 Budget requests $48 million to establish a National Land Imaging Program (NLIP) within the U.S. Geological Survey, which resides within the Department of the Interior.
New National Land Cover Database Hits the Streets
Source: Jan Nelson, Collin Homer, Jon Campbell, USGS The latest edition of the National Land Cover Database (NLCD 2006) is now publicly available. This massive database updates our knowledge of
Mapping and Measuring Urban Expansion to Inform Policy
• While urban expansion in Europe and America has been stymied by the recent economic slowdown, the developing world’s cities have been gobbling up land. In cities with more than
USGS Landsat Program Announces Release of TerraLook Software
Source: USGS Landsat Program TerraLook software Version 2.0 beta has been released, complete with a new user interface and improved usability. This simple and intuitive open-source software supports a variety
Landsat Layers in ArcGIS
At the ESRI 2011 Federal User Conference (Jan. 19–21; Washington, D.C.) participants learned that ESRI is planning to incorporate four different layers of Landsat data from different time periods into
Web-Enabled Landsat Data Available at ORNL DAAC
The Web-enabled Landsat Data (WELD) project is systematically generating 30m composited Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) mosaics of the conterminous United States and Alaska from 2005 to 2012. The
Landsat Part of USDA's CropScape Geospatial Data Service
To provide easier access to geospatial satellite products, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) today announced the launch of CropScape, a new cropland exploring service. CropScape provides data users access to a variety of new resources and information, including the 2010 cropland data layer (CDL) just released in conjunction with CropScape.
News Archives
Tracking Forest Loss More Accurately with Landsat
In an article released late this month in Environmental Research Letters, authors Mark Broich, Matthew Hansen, Fred Stolle, Peter Potapov, Belinda Arunarwati Margono, and Bernard Adusei examined interannual forest cover loss
USGS Releases Report on Uses, Users, and Value of Landsat
The USGS has released one of its Numbered Series Publications focusing on the uses, users, and value of Landsat data. The 42 page report by social scientists at the USGS
Landsat Finds a Home in the Proposed FY 2012 Budget
The President’s Proposed FY 2012 Budget requests $48 million to establish a National Land Imaging Program (NLIP) within the U.S. Geological Survey, which resides within the Department of the Interior.
New National Land Cover Database Hits the Streets
Source: Jan Nelson, Collin Homer, Jon Campbell, USGS The latest edition of the National Land Cover Database (NLCD 2006) is now publicly available. This massive database updates our knowledge of
Mapping and Measuring Urban Expansion to Inform Policy
• While urban expansion in Europe and America has been stymied by the recent economic slowdown, the developing world’s cities have been gobbling up land. In cities with more than
USGS Landsat Program Announces Release of TerraLook Software
Source: USGS Landsat Program TerraLook software Version 2.0 beta has been released, complete with a new user interface and improved usability. This simple and intuitive open-source software supports a variety
Landsat Layers in ArcGIS
At the ESRI 2011 Federal User Conference (Jan. 19–21; Washington, D.C.) participants learned that ESRI is planning to incorporate four different layers of Landsat data from different time periods into
Web-Enabled Landsat Data Available at ORNL DAAC
The Web-enabled Landsat Data (WELD) project is systematically generating 30m composited Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) mosaics of the conterminous United States and Alaska from 2005 to 2012. The
Landsat Part of USDA's CropScape Geospatial Data Service
To provide easier access to geospatial satellite products, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) today announced the launch of CropScape, a new cropland exploring service. CropScape provides data users access to a variety of new resources and information, including the 2010 cropland data layer (CDL) just released in conjunction with CropScape.
