News Archives
Landsat at the National Interpreters Workshop
LDCM Education and Public Outreach prepared and presented two sessions at the National Association for Interpretation’s Annual Conference in November, highlighting the NASA Explorer Institute, Earth to Sky. The conference was attended
Sam Goward Receives 2006 USGS John Wesley Powell Award
Dr. Sam N. Goward, the former Landsat 7 Science Team Leader and a Professor of Geography at the University of Maryland, received the 2006 USGS John Wesley Powell Award today
Meet Sam Goward
Dr. Samuel N. Goward is a professor of Geography at the University of Maryland College Park specializing in bioclimatology and remote sensing. He currently serves as a co-chair of the
Landsat at the Smithsonian
Landsat images are part of a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition called “Earth from Space.” The exhibit was jointly developed by the Smithsonian, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Global Imagination.
Watch as Landsat Data Are Collected
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has made it possible for you to watch as swaths of data from the Landsat 5 and Landsat 7 satellites are collected and downloaded to
Landsat Data Help National Park Service Manage Bison in Yellowstone
Contributor: Gretchen Cook-Anderson Grainy photographs of America’s Old West recall a time when large bison herds migrated across wide prairie lands, 30 million strong, with the changing seasons determining their path
NASA Releases LDCM Synopsis
NASA has revised the acquisition approach for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) to include separate procurements for the instrument, spacecraft, and mission operations elements. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Landsat Shows Shrinking Ponds in Alaska
A first-of-its kind analysis of fifty years of remotely sensed imagery from the 1950s to 2002 shows a dramatic reduction in the size and number of more than 10,000 ponds
