News Archives
Neotropical Cloud Forests to Lose What Most Defines Them: Clouds
If greenhouse gas emissions continue increasing as they have been, 90% of Western Hemisphere cloud forests would be affected as early as 2060.
Twenty Years with Landsat 7
In the long and winding history of the Landsat Program, April 15, 1999 was an important day.
Landsat Level-3 Products Provide Land Cover Gold in Data Mining
Remote sensing scientists now can access a decades-long Landsat look at how specific conditions have played out on every applicable 30-meter pixel of the American landscape.
Glaciers Lose 9 Trillion Tons of Ice in Half a Century
An international team used classical glaciological field observations combined with a wealth of information from various satellite missions to painstakingly calculate how much ice has been lost or gained by 19 different glacierized regions around the world.
Discovering New Thermal Areas in Yellowstone’s Dynamic Landscape
Over the last 20 years, a new thermal area has developed in Yellowstone. Landsat 8 is on the case.
How Looking for Clouds Helped Forecast Global Food Production
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.
New Data Release: Summertime Greenness Trends for Alaska and Canada
The Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) field campaign has released data of the summer NDVI trend and trend significance for 1984 to 2012 over Alaska and Canada.
New Technologies for Range and Pasture Management
The Landsat-based Rangeland Analysis Platform and Green-Cast are valuable tools for ranchers adaptively managing their land.
News Archives
How You Can Help Make a Better World Land Map
Using the technology inside your phone, you can help scientists classify land cover and track changes.
Sharp Bends Make Rivers Meander, As Landsat Attests
Turns out, the rate of river migration is directly linked to how sharp its bends are.
New Research Shows Significant Decline of Glaciers in Western North America
The first comprehensive assessment of glacier mass loss for all regions in western North America (excluding Alaskan glaciers) suggests that ice masses throughout western North America are in significant decline.
Antarctica Losing Six Times More Ice Mass Annually Now Than 40 Years Ago
Antarctica experienced a sixfold increase in yearly ice mass loss between 1979 and 2017.
Loss of Intertidal Ecosystem Exposes Coastal Communities
The study used machine-learning to analyze more than 700,000 Landsat images to map changing global distribution of intertidal areas over a 30-year period.
As Cities Grow, So Does the Urban Growing Season
New insights on how vegetation phenology in urban and surrounding areas respond to urbanization.
Mapping Water Use Nationwide With Landsat
USGS EROS scientists are leveraging the capability and history of Landsat along with weather data to map landscape-wide water consumption.
How Landsat Helps Alert Communities to Local Flood Hazards
For larger rivers, Landsat provides a rich dataset to define spatiotemporal patterns of channel shifting.
Landsat Thermal Data Provides Insight to Vintners
Landsat thermal bands allow for the measurement of water use and moisture status at the management scale.
News Archives
How You Can Help Make a Better World Land Map
Using the technology inside your phone, you can help scientists classify land cover and track changes.
Sharp Bends Make Rivers Meander, As Landsat Attests
Turns out, the rate of river migration is directly linked to how sharp its bends are.
New Research Shows Significant Decline of Glaciers in Western North America
The first comprehensive assessment of glacier mass loss for all regions in western North America (excluding Alaskan glaciers) suggests that ice masses throughout western North America are in significant decline.
Antarctica Losing Six Times More Ice Mass Annually Now Than 40 Years Ago
Antarctica experienced a sixfold increase in yearly ice mass loss between 1979 and 2017.
Loss of Intertidal Ecosystem Exposes Coastal Communities
The study used machine-learning to analyze more than 700,000 Landsat images to map changing global distribution of intertidal areas over a 30-year period.
As Cities Grow, So Does the Urban Growing Season
New insights on how vegetation phenology in urban and surrounding areas respond to urbanization.
Mapping Water Use Nationwide With Landsat
USGS EROS scientists are leveraging the capability and history of Landsat along with weather data to map landscape-wide water consumption.
How Landsat Helps Alert Communities to Local Flood Hazards
For larger rivers, Landsat provides a rich dataset to define spatiotemporal patterns of channel shifting.
Landsat Thermal Data Provides Insight to Vintners
Landsat thermal bands allow for the measurement of water use and moisture status at the management scale.
