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Landsat at Space Day
The Landsat Education and Outreach team participated in Space Day at the National Air and Space Museum on Saturday, May 2. At this perennial favorite event, thousands of visitors enjoy
Landsat Among Suite of Satellites Used in Study Linking Drought to Asian Wildfire Emissions
Source: Gretchen Cook-Anderson In the last decade, Asian farmers have cleared tens of thousands of square miles of forests to accommodate the world’s growing demand for palm oil, an increasingly
Virtually Tour Antarctica
NASA’s Science Visualization Studio released a narrated tour of Antarctica. This guided tour of the area surrounding McMurdo Station in Antarctica uses the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA). It’s
Landsat Documents Rapid Disappearance of Antarctica’s Ice Shelves
Contributors: Joan Moody (DOI); Jessica K. Robertson (USGS) Antarctica’s glaciers are melting more rapidly than previously known because of climate change, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey report prepared
Free Landsat Downloads Hit Half Million
Source: USGS On April 2, 2009, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Landsat Project delivered its 500,000th free image for Fiscal Year (FY) 2009. A recent USGS policy change enabled Landsat data
Hispaniola Was a Tropical Cyclone Target Five Times in 2008
Contributor: Rob Gutro, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center In 2008, residents of Hispaniola experienced one of their worst hurricane seasons in recent memory. Hispaniola, the Caribbean island containing Haiti and
Landsat Used to Map Persian Gulf Coral Reefs
Contributor: Rashmi De Roy, World Wildlife Foundation In 2006, the WWF helped prepare the first map of coral habitats in the southeastern Persian Gulf, highlighting some of the most extensive
USGS Landsat Project Update Available
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
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Diversity and Biomass of Tropical Forests Cleared for Land Development
• To learn more about the tropical forests that are cleared when urban and residential development spreads, scientists assembled the most comprehensive time series of land cover maps to date
New Landsat-Based Maps of Complex Caribbean Islands Reveal Conservation Opportunities Where Sugar Cane Cultivation Has Become Unprofitable
A new set of vegetation maps for five islands of the Caribbean Lesser Antilles, including Grenada, St. Kitts, Nevis, St. Eustatius and Barbados, appear in the June issue of the
USDA FAS Uses GIS, MODIS, and Landsat to Monitor Rice Production in Burma
Source: ESRI Press Release, Redlands, California, USA Subsequent to Cyclone Nargis, a category 3 tropical storm that struck the low-lying and heavily populated coastline of Myanmar (Burma) on May 2,
USGS Landsat Project Update Available
The latest issue of the USGS Landsat Project Update is available on the USGS Landsat website. The 2008, Volume 2 Issue 3, includes the following articles: + Secretary Kempthorne Showcases Free
USGS Landsat Project Update Available
The latest issue of the USGS Landsat Project Update is available on theUSGS Landsat website. The 2008, Volume 2 Issue 2, includes the following articles: + Imagery for Everyone + Technical Announcement
2008 iGETT Summer Institute Held
For the last two weeks, 40 community college instructors who teach Geographic Information Systems (GIS) were gathered at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, TX to learn about integrating remote
USGS Landsat Project Update Available
The latest issue of the USGS Landsat Project Update is available on theUSGS Landsat website. The 2008, Volume 2 Special Edition Issue, includes the following articles: + Landsat 5: Exceeding expectations:
NASA Data Helps Pinpoint Impacted Populations in Disaster Aftermath
Contact: Gretchen Cook-Anderson, NASA/GSFC When two catastrophic natural disasters struck within days of each other in May 2008, disaster relief, humanitarian aid, and health officials, as well as members of the
Largest Continent Released for Newly Acquired Landsat Data
The USGS Landsat Project has expanded its free data acquisitions to EurAsia. As near cloud-free scenes are acquired by Landsat 7, they are automatically processed and placed out for users
News Archives
Diversity and Biomass of Tropical Forests Cleared for Land Development
• To learn more about the tropical forests that are cleared when urban and residential development spreads, scientists assembled the most comprehensive time series of land cover maps to date
New Landsat-Based Maps of Complex Caribbean Islands Reveal Conservation Opportunities Where Sugar Cane Cultivation Has Become Unprofitable
A new set of vegetation maps for five islands of the Caribbean Lesser Antilles, including Grenada, St. Kitts, Nevis, St. Eustatius and Barbados, appear in the June issue of the
USDA FAS Uses GIS, MODIS, and Landsat to Monitor Rice Production in Burma
Source: ESRI Press Release, Redlands, California, USA Subsequent to Cyclone Nargis, a category 3 tropical storm that struck the low-lying and heavily populated coastline of Myanmar (Burma) on May 2,
USGS Landsat Project Update Available
The latest issue of the USGS Landsat Project Update is available on the USGS Landsat website. The 2008, Volume 2 Issue 3, includes the following articles: + Secretary Kempthorne Showcases Free
USGS Landsat Project Update Available
The latest issue of the USGS Landsat Project Update is available on theUSGS Landsat website. The 2008, Volume 2 Issue 2, includes the following articles: + Imagery for Everyone + Technical Announcement
2008 iGETT Summer Institute Held
For the last two weeks, 40 community college instructors who teach Geographic Information Systems (GIS) were gathered at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, TX to learn about integrating remote
USGS Landsat Project Update Available
The latest issue of the USGS Landsat Project Update is available on theUSGS Landsat website. The 2008, Volume 2 Special Edition Issue, includes the following articles: + Landsat 5: Exceeding expectations:
NASA Data Helps Pinpoint Impacted Populations in Disaster Aftermath
Contact: Gretchen Cook-Anderson, NASA/GSFC When two catastrophic natural disasters struck within days of each other in May 2008, disaster relief, humanitarian aid, and health officials, as well as members of the
Largest Continent Released for Newly Acquired Landsat Data
The USGS Landsat Project has expanded its free data acquisitions to EurAsia. As near cloud-free scenes are acquired by Landsat 7, they are automatically processed and placed out for users
