News Archives
![A conceptual figure showing fire impacts on annual vegetation evapotranspiration and its recovery after fires.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181211_nu13-1024x572-1.png)
Understanding How Fire Alters the Water Use of Sierra Nevada Forests
Fires play an important role in regulating forest density, vegetation water use, and runoff.
![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.
News Archives
![A fjord in Greenland.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181210_nu1-1.png)
Mapping Circulation Patterns of Icy Fjords
“Great insight comes from thinking in multi-sensor and using several constellations together.”
![AGU 100 logo](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181210_agu-1.png)
Landsat at #AGU18
Learn what scientists, researchers, and students are doing with Landsat data this year at AGU 2018.
![vegetation to sagebrush domains after they have been impacted by wildfires and drought.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20181129_nu1.png)
Post-fire Sagebrush Recovery Looks to Landsat Time Series Data for Solutions
USGS scientists are working with the Landsat-based NLCD shrubland dataset to help land managers restore native sagebrush landscapes.
![semi-aquatic muskrat](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20181126_nu1-1024x683-1.png)
Stanford Researchers Find That a Drying Canadian Delta has Driven Muskrat Population Decline
Stanford research shows the drying trend in Canada’s Peace-Athabasca Delta is linked to the long-term decline in populations of the semi-aquatic muskrat.
![global urbanization companion data sets](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20181119_nu1-1024x514-1.png)
NASA Webinar on Mapping Global Urbanization with Landsat and High-Resolution Reference Data Held Nov. 14
Webinar described the production of the Global Man-made Impervious Surface dataset and its companion urban extent dataset called Human Built-up And Settlement Extent.
Poster Featuring Landsat-based Research Wins 2018 NRCan Map Contest
Access to image data collected by the Landsat series of satellites has improved Canada’s ability to observe, track and study forest disturbances.
![monkey tree](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/monkey_tree-th.pmg_.png)
Looking at Burn Severity and Post-Fire Forest Regeneration in Chile’s Andean Cordillera, Home to the Monkey Puzzle Tree
The first study that connects field-measured data with satellite-derived burn severity in this corner of the world.
USGS Burned Area Products Group in Denver Touts Value of Landsat ARD
A new Burned Area algorithm has been developed by USGS to identify burned areas in images across the Landsat archive.
Despite Recovery, Widespread Evidence of Deforestation Remains a Half-Century Later
The patterns of large-scale tropical deforestation endure across landscapes, even after more than a half-century of tropical rainforest expansion and growth.
News Archives
![A fjord in Greenland.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181210_nu1-1.png)
Mapping Circulation Patterns of Icy Fjords
“Great insight comes from thinking in multi-sensor and using several constellations together.”
![AGU 100 logo](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181210_agu-1.png)
Landsat at #AGU18
Learn what scientists, researchers, and students are doing with Landsat data this year at AGU 2018.
![vegetation to sagebrush domains after they have been impacted by wildfires and drought.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20181129_nu1.png)
Post-fire Sagebrush Recovery Looks to Landsat Time Series Data for Solutions
USGS scientists are working with the Landsat-based NLCD shrubland dataset to help land managers restore native sagebrush landscapes.
![semi-aquatic muskrat](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20181126_nu1-1024x683-1.png)
Stanford Researchers Find That a Drying Canadian Delta has Driven Muskrat Population Decline
Stanford research shows the drying trend in Canada’s Peace-Athabasca Delta is linked to the long-term decline in populations of the semi-aquatic muskrat.
![global urbanization companion data sets](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20181119_nu1-1024x514-1.png)
NASA Webinar on Mapping Global Urbanization with Landsat and High-Resolution Reference Data Held Nov. 14
Webinar described the production of the Global Man-made Impervious Surface dataset and its companion urban extent dataset called Human Built-up And Settlement Extent.
Poster Featuring Landsat-based Research Wins 2018 NRCan Map Contest
Access to image data collected by the Landsat series of satellites has improved Canada’s ability to observe, track and study forest disturbances.
![monkey tree](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/monkey_tree-th.pmg_.png)
Looking at Burn Severity and Post-Fire Forest Regeneration in Chile’s Andean Cordillera, Home to the Monkey Puzzle Tree
The first study that connects field-measured data with satellite-derived burn severity in this corner of the world.
USGS Burned Area Products Group in Denver Touts Value of Landsat ARD
A new Burned Area algorithm has been developed by USGS to identify burned areas in images across the Landsat archive.
Despite Recovery, Widespread Evidence of Deforestation Remains a Half-Century Later
The patterns of large-scale tropical deforestation endure across landscapes, even after more than a half-century of tropical rainforest expansion and growth.