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Landsat and Agriculture Case Studies
A team of economists from the USGS Fort Collins Science Center has published a new report on Landsat imagery use in agriculture.
Exhibit Fusing Art and Science Coming to Bismarck
Earth as Art, a U.S. Geological Survey traveling exhibit that merges art with dramatic Landsat imagery of the earth’s surface, is coming to Bismarck for the month of April.
RIT Researchers Win USGS Grant to Improve Landsat 8 Data
Rochester Institute of Technology researchers have won funding from the U.S. Geological Survey to ensure accurate temperature data from the Landsat 8 satellite. Climate researchers depend on public data from the Earth-sensing satellite to measure surface changes over time.
Landsat Reveals Bird Habitat Loss in California
Drought and reduced seasonal flooding of wetlands and farm fields threaten a globally important stopover site for tens of thousands of migratory shorebirds in California’s Sacramento Valley, a new Duke University-led study shows.
New “Landsat Collections” Help Facilitate Land Change Science
Access to consistent high-quality images to study changes on Earth’s surface is getting easier.
Pecora 20 Conference Announcement
The Pecora 20 Conference will be held November 14-16, 2017 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Sentinel-2B Successfully Launches
“This launch completes the Sentinel-2 constellation, providing a tremendous new resource for land management and science.”
Landsat Images Provided to the Disaster Charter, Feb. 2017
This month, 37 Landsat scenes were ingested by the USGS Hazard Data Distribution System to provide data for Charter activations.
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How FastEmap is Helping Foresters
A new a tool to help with annual forest mapping.
A Map for Preserving a Sustainable Society
On creating a high-quality map of urban areas in India.
Extreme Event: 2012-2015 Snowpack Drought in the Sierra Nevada Mountains
The water year 2015 peak snowpack was found to be the lowest over the 65-year reconstruction of peak annual snow water equivalent.
A New Way to Map Glaciers
Using Landsat time-series analysis to map glaciers.
Tracking Water Resources in California's Central Valley
A near real-time water resources tracking and decision-support system for the Central Valley of California.
Watching Water Dynamics
How much has surface water extent varied in space and time through the past 17 years?
Environmental Flows: Managing Water in the Murray Darling Basin
How seasonal flooding impacts riparian vegetation in Australia’s Murray Darling Basin.
Fingerprinting Carbon Loss in Pacific Northwest Forests
Looking at the causes of carbon loss in Pacific Northwest forests.
A More Detailed Map for Forest Managers
A Landsat-based continuous mapping method to enable better forest management.
News Archives
How FastEmap is Helping Foresters
A new a tool to help with annual forest mapping.
A Map for Preserving a Sustainable Society
On creating a high-quality map of urban areas in India.
Extreme Event: 2012-2015 Snowpack Drought in the Sierra Nevada Mountains
The water year 2015 peak snowpack was found to be the lowest over the 65-year reconstruction of peak annual snow water equivalent.
A New Way to Map Glaciers
Using Landsat time-series analysis to map glaciers.
Tracking Water Resources in California's Central Valley
A near real-time water resources tracking and decision-support system for the Central Valley of California.
Watching Water Dynamics
How much has surface water extent varied in space and time through the past 17 years?
Environmental Flows: Managing Water in the Murray Darling Basin
How seasonal flooding impacts riparian vegetation in Australia’s Murray Darling Basin.
Fingerprinting Carbon Loss in Pacific Northwest Forests
Looking at the causes of carbon loss in Pacific Northwest forests.
A More Detailed Map for Forest Managers
A Landsat-based continuous mapping method to enable better forest management.