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![irrigation](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181214_n5-1.png)
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.
![Photograph of a secondary avulsion channel in a Yakima County river in Washington](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181214_n4-1.png)
How Landsat Helps Alert Communities to Local Flood Hazards
For larger rivers, Landsat provides a rich dataset to define spatiotemporal patterns of channel shifting.
![Vineyard](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Fotolia_44582350_M-300x199-1.jpg)
Landsat Thermal Data Provides Insight to Vintners
Landsat thermal bands allow for the measurement of water use and moisture status at the management scale.
![tudy region. The red outline depicts the extent of the Dhofar mountain study region, inset a) shows its location on the Arabian Peninsula, inset b) depicts a dry season, and inset c) depicts post-monsoon vegetation.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181214_nu1-772x1024-1.png)
Getting to Know the Dhofar Cloud Forest
Learn more about this rather unusual seasonal and semi-arid cloud forest.
![Landsat-derived annual irrigation maps](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/20181212_nu4.png)
The Shifting Irrigation Patterns of the U.S. High Plains Aquifer
A new method to use the full Landsat archive to produce annual maps of irrigated area over the High Plains Aquifer in the central United States.
![Landsat and poetry](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/121318_nu-th-1.png)
A Geospatial Poem for the Ages
Poetry and the arts can humanize science.
![Casey Youngflesh](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181212_nu2-1024x685-1.jpg)
Determining Penguin Diet with Landsat (and Piles of Poo)
Scientists are now able to determine what penguins are eating from space.
![Secchi disk](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181212_nu1-1.jpg)
Retrieving Secchi Depth with Landsat 8
Landsat 8 allows for the acquisition of spectral data for monitoring water quality from lakes and drinking water reservoirs across the United States.
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![A fisherman casts his net at sunset on the Brahmaputra River.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181211_n12-1.png)
Watching River Islands Grow on the Brahmaputra
Stable river islands locally known as ‘chars’ are increasing in the Brahmaputra river.
![Pennsylvania’s Tiadaghton State Forest with fall foliage](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181211_nu8-1.png)
Monitoring Forest Health Amid Oil and Gas Extraction
Following changes in long-term forest health around oil and gas wells in the Pennsylvania State Forest.
![Salt marsh on Toms Cove on Assateague Island, overlooking the Coast Guard Station and boathouse.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181211_nu5-1.png)
Mapping Long-term Salt Marsh Change with Landsat
This research identified the Delmarva as an area of significant salt marsh loss over the last three decades.
![Tile drainage installation images](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/20181211_nu2.png)
Improving Water Resource Management in the Great Plains
Making annual high-resolution agricultural subsurface drainage maps for the Northern Great Plains regions using multiple satellite and model datasets with Google Earth Engine.
![TIRS A-68](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/TIRSA68JuneAug2017_v2-1.gif)
The Dynamic Nature of a Large Iceberg Calving Event
Iceberg A-68 calved from the Larsen C during a period of larger then average tidal cycles.
![Oyster reef at water's edge along the Gulf of Mexico](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181210_nu4-1.png)
Investigating the Ecosystem Services Provided by Oysters
There is evidence of oyster reefs driving estuary-scale detention of freshwater in the Suwannee Sound.
![Grass and shrub vegetation in the Mojave National Preserve](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181210_nu3-1.png)
Shrub and Grass Vegetation Declining Across Great Basin
Across the Great Basin from 1984-2016, shrub and grass vegetation are declining.
![An almond orchard](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/20181210_nu2.png)
Towards Agricultural Sustainability of Fruit and Nut Trees in California’s Central Valley
A robust detection method to track crop cover dynamics and identify the planting year through Landsat time series data.
![A group of four glaciers in an area of East Antarctica called Vincennes Bay, west of the massive Totten Glacier](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/antarctica_velocity_highres_lbls-1.png)
More Glaciers in East Antarctica Are Waking Up
New detailed NASA maps of ice velocity and elevation show that a group of glaciers spanning one-eighth of East Antarctica’s coast have begun to lose ice over the past decade, hinting at widespread changes in the ocean.
News Archives
![A fisherman casts his net at sunset on the Brahmaputra River.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181211_n12-1.png)
Watching River Islands Grow on the Brahmaputra
Stable river islands locally known as ‘chars’ are increasing in the Brahmaputra river.
![Pennsylvania’s Tiadaghton State Forest with fall foliage](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181211_nu8-1.png)
Monitoring Forest Health Amid Oil and Gas Extraction
Following changes in long-term forest health around oil and gas wells in the Pennsylvania State Forest.
![Salt marsh on Toms Cove on Assateague Island, overlooking the Coast Guard Station and boathouse.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181211_nu5-1.png)
Mapping Long-term Salt Marsh Change with Landsat
This research identified the Delmarva as an area of significant salt marsh loss over the last three decades.
![Tile drainage installation images](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/20181211_nu2.png)
Improving Water Resource Management in the Great Plains
Making annual high-resolution agricultural subsurface drainage maps for the Northern Great Plains regions using multiple satellite and model datasets with Google Earth Engine.
![TIRS A-68](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/TIRSA68JuneAug2017_v2-1.gif)
The Dynamic Nature of a Large Iceberg Calving Event
Iceberg A-68 calved from the Larsen C during a period of larger then average tidal cycles.
![Oyster reef at water's edge along the Gulf of Mexico](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181210_nu4-1.png)
Investigating the Ecosystem Services Provided by Oysters
There is evidence of oyster reefs driving estuary-scale detention of freshwater in the Suwannee Sound.
![Grass and shrub vegetation in the Mojave National Preserve](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181210_nu3-1.png)
Shrub and Grass Vegetation Declining Across Great Basin
Across the Great Basin from 1984-2016, shrub and grass vegetation are declining.
![An almond orchard](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/20181210_nu2.png)
Towards Agricultural Sustainability of Fruit and Nut Trees in California’s Central Valley
A robust detection method to track crop cover dynamics and identify the planting year through Landsat time series data.
![A group of four glaciers in an area of East Antarctica called Vincennes Bay, west of the massive Totten Glacier](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/antarctica_velocity_highres_lbls-1.png)
More Glaciers in East Antarctica Are Waking Up
New detailed NASA maps of ice velocity and elevation show that a group of glaciers spanning one-eighth of East Antarctica’s coast have begun to lose ice over the past decade, hinting at widespread changes in the ocean.