News Archives
Presentations from 2016 Summer Science Team Meeting
USGS has made all Science Team presentations from the Summer 2016 meeting held in Brookings, South Dakota available for download.
Landsat Reveals Serious Decline in Georgia Salt Marsh Health
Scientists at the University of Georgia’s Marine Institute at Sapelo Island have found that the amount of vegetation along the Georgia coast has declined significantly in the last 30 years, spurring concerns about the overall health of marshland ecosystems in the area.
Landsat Image Provided to International Charter, July 2016
This month, one Landsat scene was ingested by the USGS Hazard Data Distribution System to provide data for Charter activations.
Following the Trail of TIRS Technology onto a CapSat
An advanced photodetector camera that traces its heritage to one now flying on Landsat 8 is being studied as a potential payload on a conceptual satellite (CapSat) system purposely designed to take advantage of the expected boom in secondary-payload launch opportunities.
Landsat—The Watchman that Never Sleeps
In western North America, mountain pine beetles infest and ravage thousands of acres of forest lands. Landsat satellites bear witness to the onslaught in a way that neither humans nor most other satellites can.
Land Cover Matters: An Avian Flu Researcher Talks Landsat
We recently spoke with veterinary epidemiologist Todd Kelman from the University of Davis, California about his avian flu research. Todd has incorporated Landsat data into his research and we wanted to know more.
Landsat & Lasers: Your Job is to Monitor 860 Million Acres of Forest, Go!
Landsat Science Team member, Mike Wulder, spoke with the International Boreal Forest Research Association last year during their May 2015 conference in Rovaniemi, Finland.
14 Landsat Images Provided to International Charter, June 2016
These maps, provided to responders for free, often show where the damage is and where crisis victims are, allowing responders to plan and execute relief support.
News Archives
2016 William T. Pecora Award Announcement
The William T. Pecora Award is presented annually to individuals or groups that have made outstanding contributions toward understanding the Earth by means of remote sensing. The Department of the Interior (DOI) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) jointly sponsor the award.
Latest USGS Landsat Update
The latest Landsat Update (Volume 10 Issue 2 2016) is now available from USGS.
New Technique Tracks ‘Heartbeat’ of Hundreds of Wetlands
Across the U.S. and particularly in Washington state, very little is known about the acreage, yearly flooding cycles and even the actual locations of wetlands. Even hazier is what could happen to these vital ecosystems under climate change.
USGS Partners with European Space Agency to Deliver Copernicus Earth Data
USGS and ESA have established an innovative partnership to enable USGS storage and redistribution of Earth observation data acquired by Copernicus program satellites.
Spectral Response of the Multispectral Scanner System In-Band, Band-Average Relative Spectral Response
< The Multispectral Scanner System The band-average relative spectral radiance responses of the Landsat-1 through -5 Multispectral Scanner System (MSS) instruments are provided below as extracted from the best
126 Landsat Images Provided to International Charter, Feb. 2016
This month, 126 Landsat scenes were ingested by the USGS Hazard Data Distribution System to provide data for Charter activations.
Landsat 8 Used to Pinpoint Shipwrecks
Nearshore shipwrecks can leave telltale sediment plumes at the sea’s surface that reveal their location. Using Landsat 8 data, researchers have detected plumes extending as far as 4 kilometers (~2.5 miles) downstream from shallow shipwreck sites. This discovery demonstrates that Landsat and Landsat-like satellites can be used to locate the watery graves of coastal shipwrecks.
Documenting Spatial and Temporal Trends of Drought
We turned to the remote sensing archive to determine if drought altered forest structure over the course of a decade-and-a-half. We analyzed 22 years of Landsat satellite data to determine changes in forest condition between 1985 and 2012.
Landsat 8 TIRS Updates from USGS
As of Feb. 12, 2016, many of the Landsat 8 scenes acquired from October to December 2015 have been reprocessed into nominal Level-1 products containing valid TIRS data and are available for download, and can also be submitted for higher-level Surface Reflectance data processing via the ESPA On-demand interface.
News Archives
2016 William T. Pecora Award Announcement
The William T. Pecora Award is presented annually to individuals or groups that have made outstanding contributions toward understanding the Earth by means of remote sensing. The Department of the Interior (DOI) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) jointly sponsor the award.
Latest USGS Landsat Update
The latest Landsat Update (Volume 10 Issue 2 2016) is now available from USGS.
New Technique Tracks ‘Heartbeat’ of Hundreds of Wetlands
Across the U.S. and particularly in Washington state, very little is known about the acreage, yearly flooding cycles and even the actual locations of wetlands. Even hazier is what could happen to these vital ecosystems under climate change.
USGS Partners with European Space Agency to Deliver Copernicus Earth Data
USGS and ESA have established an innovative partnership to enable USGS storage and redistribution of Earth observation data acquired by Copernicus program satellites.
Spectral Response of the Multispectral Scanner System In-Band, Band-Average Relative Spectral Response
< The Multispectral Scanner System The band-average relative spectral radiance responses of the Landsat-1 through -5 Multispectral Scanner System (MSS) instruments are provided below as extracted from the best
126 Landsat Images Provided to International Charter, Feb. 2016
This month, 126 Landsat scenes were ingested by the USGS Hazard Data Distribution System to provide data for Charter activations.
Landsat 8 Used to Pinpoint Shipwrecks
Nearshore shipwrecks can leave telltale sediment plumes at the sea’s surface that reveal their location. Using Landsat 8 data, researchers have detected plumes extending as far as 4 kilometers (~2.5 miles) downstream from shallow shipwreck sites. This discovery demonstrates that Landsat and Landsat-like satellites can be used to locate the watery graves of coastal shipwrecks.
Documenting Spatial and Temporal Trends of Drought
We turned to the remote sensing archive to determine if drought altered forest structure over the course of a decade-and-a-half. We analyzed 22 years of Landsat satellite data to determine changes in forest condition between 1985 and 2012.
Landsat 8 TIRS Updates from USGS
As of Feb. 12, 2016, many of the Landsat 8 scenes acquired from October to December 2015 have been reprocessed into nominal Level-1 products containing valid TIRS data and are available for download, and can also be submitted for higher-level Surface Reflectance data processing via the ESPA On-demand interface.
