News Archives
![Hyperwall talk about the various STELLA instruments and how they can be used in science classrooms to demonstrate Earth observation data.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Mike_NSTA_stella-scaled.jpg)
Bringing Earth Observations into Science Classrooms
Landsat outreach supported the NASA booth at the National Science Teacher’s Association annual meeting in Denver.
![California’s 2017 Thomas Fire (shown) was included in a new analysis of more than 1,500 wildland fires teasing out how drought and fire combine to affect western U.S. lands.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/3-25-24-fire-drought-main-art-ed.webp)
Satellites Show How Drought Changes Wildfire Recovery in the West
A new study using NASA satellite data reveals how drought affects the recovery of western ecosystems from fire, a result that could provide meaningful information for conservation efforts.
![Landsat outreach team member Mike Taylor wears a maroon-colored shirt as he speaks to exhibit booth visitors at the 2024 Commodity Classic.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Mike-CC2024-th.jpg)
Commodity Classic: Landsat Supports Farmers and Food Production
Landsat was part of the NASA Earth Science presence at the 2024 Commodity Classic in Houston this year.
![Participants use pieces of colored string to label different components on a vinyl mat of Maui.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/ETS_Hawaii4.jpeg)
Landsat Goes to Hawaiʻi to Help Inspire Climate Change Connections
During two recent Earth to Sky Climate Science Education workshops, participants learned how Landsat imagery helps us assess changes in land cover and land use.
![Landsat 9 image showing Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier’s ice shelf in January 2024.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/pinningpoints_oli2_20240120_front-aZfp83.jpeg)
Antarctic History Revealed by Landsat
New research shows that while some Antarctic ice shelves have been thinning since at least the 1970s, widespread thinning accelerated in the 1990s.
![Allison Nussbaum gives a Hyperwall talk about Landsat’s free-and-open data policy and how it paved the way for data products including vegetation indices and evapotranspiration.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_9329-scaled.jpg)
Landsat Outreach: Denver Edition
The Landsat outreach team participated in AAAS and Geo Week events this month to highlight the benefits of the Landsat program and how the NASA/USGS partnership facilitates the invaluable, ongoing Landsat record.
![Mike Taylor holds a STELLA instrument and shows it to a visitor at AMS.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/AMS2024_Landsat_Taylor2-scaled.jpg)
Landsat Outreach at the 2024 American Meteorological Society Meeting
This year, AMS meeting-goers had an opportunity to learn more about Landsat, its data, and its applications at the NASA Exhibit Booth.
![Landsat 2023 in Review: An image of the Landsat 9 satellite and a satellite image with the year "2023" written below it.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/NASA_2023WrapUp_Thumb_print-1.jpg)
Landsat 2023 – A Year in Review
A delve into Landsat-based studies revealing the environmental impact of river mining, the decline in global lake water levels, and the risks of rising sea levels on coastal habitats. Plus, a sneak peek at what the future of the Landsat program holds with the introduction of Landsat Next.
News Archives
![STELLA Photos](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/STELLA-Photos-copy-scaled.jpg)
STELLA Spring Webinar: April 15, 2024
STELLA users will talk about their experiences using the DIY spectrometer during this webinar. Panelists include Bianca Cilento (RIT), Karen Karker (SUNY), and Peder Nelson (OSU and NASA GLOBE Observer).
![The GLAMR integrating sphere mounted on the thermal vacuum chamber during Landsat 9 OLI-2 testing.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/OLI2GLAMR_March2024nb.jpg)
Landsat 9’s Operational Land Imager 2: A Well-Known Instrument
Landsat 9’s OLI-2 instrument was characterized in unprecedented detail using a new laser-based method of in-band spectral response testing. A continuous relative spectral response dataset and pre-launch testing details have been published in a recent paper.
![Hyperwall talk about the various STELLA instruments and how they can be used in science classrooms to demonstrate Earth observation data.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Mike_NSTA_stella-scaled.jpg)
Bringing Earth Observations into Science Classrooms
Landsat outreach supported the NASA booth at the National Science Teacher’s Association annual meeting in Denver.
![California’s 2017 Thomas Fire (shown) was included in a new analysis of more than 1,500 wildland fires teasing out how drought and fire combine to affect western U.S. lands.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/3-25-24-fire-drought-main-art-ed.webp)
Satellites Show How Drought Changes Wildfire Recovery in the West
A new study using NASA satellite data reveals how drought affects the recovery of western ecosystems from fire, a result that could provide meaningful information for conservation efforts.
![Landsat outreach team member Mike Taylor wears a maroon-colored shirt as he speaks to exhibit booth visitors at the 2024 Commodity Classic.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Mike-CC2024-th.jpg)
Commodity Classic: Landsat Supports Farmers and Food Production
Landsat was part of the NASA Earth Science presence at the 2024 Commodity Classic in Houston this year.
![Participants use pieces of colored string to label different components on a vinyl mat of Maui.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/ETS_Hawaii4.jpeg)
Landsat Goes to Hawaiʻi to Help Inspire Climate Change Connections
During two recent Earth to Sky Climate Science Education workshops, participants learned how Landsat imagery helps us assess changes in land cover and land use.
![Landsat 9 image showing Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier’s ice shelf in January 2024.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/pinningpoints_oli2_20240120_front-aZfp83.jpeg)
Antarctic History Revealed by Landsat
New research shows that while some Antarctic ice shelves have been thinning since at least the 1970s, widespread thinning accelerated in the 1990s.
![Allison Nussbaum gives a Hyperwall talk about Landsat’s free-and-open data policy and how it paved the way for data products including vegetation indices and evapotranspiration.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_9329-scaled.jpg)
Landsat Outreach: Denver Edition
The Landsat outreach team participated in AAAS and Geo Week events this month to highlight the benefits of the Landsat program and how the NASA/USGS partnership facilitates the invaluable, ongoing Landsat record.
![Mike Taylor holds a STELLA instrument and shows it to a visitor at AMS.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/AMS2024_Landsat_Taylor2-scaled.jpg)
Landsat Outreach at the 2024 American Meteorological Society Meeting
This year, AMS meeting-goers had an opportunity to learn more about Landsat, its data, and its applications at the NASA Exhibit Booth.
News Archives
![STELLA Photos](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/STELLA-Photos-copy-scaled.jpg)
STELLA Spring Webinar: April 15, 2024
STELLA users will talk about their experiences using the DIY spectrometer during this webinar. Panelists include Bianca Cilento (RIT), Karen Karker (SUNY), and Peder Nelson (OSU and NASA GLOBE Observer).
![The GLAMR integrating sphere mounted on the thermal vacuum chamber during Landsat 9 OLI-2 testing.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/OLI2GLAMR_March2024nb.jpg)
Landsat 9’s Operational Land Imager 2: A Well-Known Instrument
Landsat 9’s OLI-2 instrument was characterized in unprecedented detail using a new laser-based method of in-band spectral response testing. A continuous relative spectral response dataset and pre-launch testing details have been published in a recent paper.
![Hyperwall talk about the various STELLA instruments and how they can be used in science classrooms to demonstrate Earth observation data.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Mike_NSTA_stella-scaled.jpg)
Bringing Earth Observations into Science Classrooms
Landsat outreach supported the NASA booth at the National Science Teacher’s Association annual meeting in Denver.
![California’s 2017 Thomas Fire (shown) was included in a new analysis of more than 1,500 wildland fires teasing out how drought and fire combine to affect western U.S. lands.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/3-25-24-fire-drought-main-art-ed.webp)
Satellites Show How Drought Changes Wildfire Recovery in the West
A new study using NASA satellite data reveals how drought affects the recovery of western ecosystems from fire, a result that could provide meaningful information for conservation efforts.
![Landsat outreach team member Mike Taylor wears a maroon-colored shirt as he speaks to exhibit booth visitors at the 2024 Commodity Classic.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Mike-CC2024-th.jpg)
Commodity Classic: Landsat Supports Farmers and Food Production
Landsat was part of the NASA Earth Science presence at the 2024 Commodity Classic in Houston this year.
![Participants use pieces of colored string to label different components on a vinyl mat of Maui.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/ETS_Hawaii4.jpeg)
Landsat Goes to Hawaiʻi to Help Inspire Climate Change Connections
During two recent Earth to Sky Climate Science Education workshops, participants learned how Landsat imagery helps us assess changes in land cover and land use.
![Landsat 9 image showing Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier’s ice shelf in January 2024.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/pinningpoints_oli2_20240120_front-aZfp83.jpeg)
Antarctic History Revealed by Landsat
New research shows that while some Antarctic ice shelves have been thinning since at least the 1970s, widespread thinning accelerated in the 1990s.
![Allison Nussbaum gives a Hyperwall talk about Landsat’s free-and-open data policy and how it paved the way for data products including vegetation indices and evapotranspiration.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_9329-scaled.jpg)
Landsat Outreach: Denver Edition
The Landsat outreach team participated in AAAS and Geo Week events this month to highlight the benefits of the Landsat program and how the NASA/USGS partnership facilitates the invaluable, ongoing Landsat record.
![Mike Taylor holds a STELLA instrument and shows it to a visitor at AMS.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/AMS2024_Landsat_Taylor2-scaled.jpg)
Landsat Outreach at the 2024 American Meteorological Society Meeting
This year, AMS meeting-goers had an opportunity to learn more about Landsat, its data, and its applications at the NASA Exhibit Booth.