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Landsat 5 Flight Operations Anomaly Team Wins Award
The Landsat 5 Flight Operations Anomaly Team has won the International SpaceOps 2006 Award for Outstanding Achievement in honor of their “dedicated efforts in recovering Landsat 5 from two potentially
Draft LDCM Operations Concept and WRS-2 Definition Documents Available
Draft versions of two LDCM reference documents, the Operations Concept document and the WRS-2 Definition document, are now available for review and comment. Please provide comments pertaining to these documents
Two Draft LDCM Reference Documents Released
Draft versions of two LDCM requirements documents, the Space to Ground Segments Interface Requirements and the Mission Operations Element Requirements are now available. Please provide comments pertaining to these documents to Patricia Dombrowski or Faye Johnson by July
Tracking socioeconomic impacts on land use
Location: California-Mexico Border Source: USGS Earthshots These images show the different land use patterns of El Centro, California, and the urban area of Mexicali/Calexico on the California-Mexico border. From 1970
Characterizing forest range vegetation
A mosaic of Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) images with overlays of aerial photography flightlines (N-S lines) and boundaries of physiographic strata was created to help inventory the forests of Minnesota.
Assessing and monitoring grass and forest fires
Contributor: Jan van Wagtendonk, U. S. Geological Survey In recent years, wildland fires have become more intense resulting in increased loss of human life and natural resource damage. An important
Assessing drought impact
Contributor: Alexander F. H. Goetz, University of Colorado at Boulder More than 10 percent of the United States’ High Plains region is made up of sand dunes and sand sheets
Mapping volcanic surface deposits
Contributor: Luke Flynn, University of Hawaii To understand the complex “plumbing” beneath active volcanic lave lakes and determine the amount of lava flowing from them, Luke Flynn of the University
