News Archives
USGS Video: Landsat in Action—Interview with Alan Belward
Alan Belward from the European Union’s Joint Research Center discusses how Landsat helps his team promote sustainable development.
USGS Video: Landsat In Action—Interview with Ted Scambos
Ted Scambos, Lead Scientist at the National Snow & Ice Data Center, talks about the roll of Landsat in his research studying polar regions.
Madcap Recap: Landsat in the News
Very brief summaries and links to some of the more fascinating Landsat news and blog posts out there.
GEO Announces Major Milestone Reached in Forest Monitoring from Space
Thanks to a major effort to ensure full satellite coverage of the world’s forests, all countries now have the necessary data for annual forest monitoring for the first time ever.
Landsat 9's OLI-2 Instrument Takes Shape
OLI-2 is being built by Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado.
Mapping the World's Most Precious Resource: Landsat Science Team Member Gives Surface Water TEDx Talk
This TEDx talk explains Belward’s work which utilizes the Landsat data archive to map surface water movement around the globe.
Puerto Rico Landscape Ravaged by Hurricane Maria
Hurricane Maria tore across Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017, ravaging both urban and rural areas with category 4 winds and intense rainfall for several days.
Landsat Analysis Ready Data Coming Soon
A fundamental goal for Landsat ARD is to significantly reduce the magnitude of data processing for application scientists.
News Archives
Landsat Helps Map Fires in Western and Southern Cape Provinces of South Africa
Landsat 8 data was used to map the fire extent, measuring some 16,000 hectares of destruction.
Landsat 9 Mission Operations Contract Awarded
General Dynamics Mission Systems (GDMS) of Scottsdale, Arizona has been selected as the contractor responsible for Landsat 9 Mission Operations.
Blazing Fast Relief: A NASA-Supported Tool is Accelerating Wildfire Recovery
Burned Area Emergency Response teams—one of most important parts of wildfires that you’ve probably never heard of.
Requesting Input on Future Landsat Requirements
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is requesting information from the land imaging community for user requirements for future Landsat systems.
![Penguins](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/nu_0212_big.png)
At the Bottom of the World, Satellites Are Guiding Commerce and Conservation
MAPPPD is the first free, open-access Antarctic decision support system that integrates remotely sensed inputs, such as Landsat 7 images and MODIS sea ice data, to provide an assessment of Adélie and other penguin species across the frozen continent.
Mapping Chesapeake's Future From Today's Land Use
USGS’ pixel-by-pixel land use forecasts offer essential road maps for restoration.
Landsat Images Provided to the Disaster Charter, May 2017
This month, 34 Landsat scenes were ingested by the USGS Hazard Data Distribution System to provide data for Charter activations.
Landsat 8 Scenes Top 1 Million
As of today, there are now over 1 million Landsat 8 scenes available to download from the Landsat archive.
![Intertidal zone](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/beach-gb4d5cacf3_1920.jpg)
Welcome to the Intertidal Zone: Mapping Australia’s Coast with Landsat
Using 28 years of Landsat data, an Australian research team has created a continent-wide intertidal zone extent map for the whole of the Australian coast.
News Archives
Landsat Helps Map Fires in Western and Southern Cape Provinces of South Africa
Landsat 8 data was used to map the fire extent, measuring some 16,000 hectares of destruction.
Landsat 9 Mission Operations Contract Awarded
General Dynamics Mission Systems (GDMS) of Scottsdale, Arizona has been selected as the contractor responsible for Landsat 9 Mission Operations.
Blazing Fast Relief: A NASA-Supported Tool is Accelerating Wildfire Recovery
Burned Area Emergency Response teams—one of most important parts of wildfires that you’ve probably never heard of.
Requesting Input on Future Landsat Requirements
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is requesting information from the land imaging community for user requirements for future Landsat systems.
![Penguins](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/nu_0212_big.png)
At the Bottom of the World, Satellites Are Guiding Commerce and Conservation
MAPPPD is the first free, open-access Antarctic decision support system that integrates remotely sensed inputs, such as Landsat 7 images and MODIS sea ice data, to provide an assessment of Adélie and other penguin species across the frozen continent.
Mapping Chesapeake's Future From Today's Land Use
USGS’ pixel-by-pixel land use forecasts offer essential road maps for restoration.
Landsat Images Provided to the Disaster Charter, May 2017
This month, 34 Landsat scenes were ingested by the USGS Hazard Data Distribution System to provide data for Charter activations.
Landsat 8 Scenes Top 1 Million
As of today, there are now over 1 million Landsat 8 scenes available to download from the Landsat archive.
![Intertidal zone](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/beach-gb4d5cacf3_1920.jpg)
Welcome to the Intertidal Zone: Mapping Australia’s Coast with Landsat
Using 28 years of Landsat data, an Australian research team has created a continent-wide intertidal zone extent map for the whole of the Australian coast.