Plants and Habitats | Landsat Science

Do you like hiking, camping, or wildlife photography? Landsat helps us protect habitats, preserve biodiversity, and monitor how ecosystems change.

Plants play a very important role in our Earth’s ecosystem – to support life on Earth. Forests act like “lungs of the planet,” giving us oxygen and storing climate-warming carbon. Wetlands act as “Earth’s kidneys” to filter water and create a habitat for many plants and animals that form the base of the food chain that supports life on Earth.

TIME-lapse Travel

Wildfire burned almost 800,000 acres of Yellowstone National Park in 1988. In this series of Landsat images, watch how the park’s landcover recovered over the following 32 years.

Seeing the Forest for the Trees

We rely on plants and habitats to sustain human life. Landsat helps us see how these ecosystems change over time.

Then & Now

In the last 50 years, there have been four different types of Landsat spacecraft, better and better science instruments were carried on each new spacecraft generation.

+ Four Generations of Landsat Spacecraft

Plants play a very important role in our Earth’s ecosystem – to support life on Earth. Forests act like “lungs of the planet,” giving us oxygen and storing climate-warming carbon. Wetlands act as “Earth’s kidneys” to filter water and create a habitat for many plants and animals that form the base of the food chain that supports life on Earth.

TIME-lapse Travel

Wildfire burned almost 800,000 acres of Yellowstone National Park in 1988. In this series of Landsat images, watch how the park’s landcover recovered over the following 32 years.

Seeing the Forest for the Trees

We rely on plants and habitats to sustain human life. Landsat helps us see how these ecosystems change over time.

Then & Now

In the last 50 years, there have been four different types of Landsat spacecraft, better and better science instruments were carried on each new spacecraft generation.

+ Four Generations of Landsat Spacecraft

Landsat Collage Challenge

The Landsat series of satellites has been collecting visually stunning and scientifically valuable images of Earth since 1972. While Landsat data have played a critical role in the study of our land resources, images from these data have provided some of the most beautiful and unique colors, textures, and patterns of our planet. Explore these stunning patterns and colors from folded red mountain ridges, yellow dunes dotted with brilliant pools of blue water, and swirling clouds of blue-green phytoplankton.

+ Create your own Landsat collage and share with #CampLandsat

GLOBE Observer Trees

Trees give us oxygen, cool the landscape, and store carbon. To help understand changes in our climate, scientists need to understand how much carbon trees and forests either take in from or release into the atmosphere. One way scientists do this is by measuring tree height which is the most widely used indicator of an ecosystem’s ability to grow trees. Help scientists by estimating tree height with the GLOBE Observer Trees app.

DIY Clinometer

Measuring tree height is just one way that scientists study the health of forests. Scientists use a clinometer for measuring elevation or angles of slope and it can also be used to calculate the height of trees. Give it a try! Measure a tree in your neighborhood with your own paper clinometer.

Adventure of Echo the Bat

Discover how different habitats Join Echo the Bat on his journey through Arizona as he passes through five different habitats from ponderosa pine forests to desert habitats.

DIY Clinometer

Measuring tree height is just one way that scientists study the health of forests. Scientists use a clinometer for measuring elevation or angles of slope and it can also be used to calculate the height of trees. Give it a try! Measure a tree in your neighborhood with your own paper clinometer.

Adventure of Echo the Bat

Discover how different habitats Join Echo the Bat on his journey through Arizona as he passes through five different habitats from ponderosa pine forests to desert habitats.

Postcard from Camp

This week we visit the Sundarbans, a large mangrove forest located in West Bengal on the largest Delta in the world. Many land and marine animals rely on this habitat including dolphins, crabs, prawns, alligators and crocodiles. It’s also the natural habitat for the famous Royal Bengal Tigers and location of the Sundarban Tiger Reserve.

EO Kids

EO Kids is seeing green! Can people really change the color of our planet? Find out how Earth is greening up from forests and farms and how NASA can see our greener Earth from space.

Postcard from Camp

This week we visit the Sundarbans, a large mangrove forest located in West Bengal on the largest Delta in the world. Many land and marine animals rely on this habitat including dolphins, crabs, prawns, alligators and crocodiles. It’s also the natural habitat for the famous Royal Bengal Tigers and location of the Sundarban Tiger Reserve.

EO Kids

EO Kids is seeing green! Can people really change the color of our planet? Find out how Earth is greening up from forests and farms and how NASA can see our greener Earth from space.

Do you like hiking, camping, or wildlife photography? Landsat helps us protect habitats, preserve biodiversity, and monitor how ecosystems change.

Plants play a very important role in our Earth’s ecosystem – to support life on Earth. Forests act like “lungs of the planet,” giving us oxygen and storing climate-warming carbon. Wetlands act as “Earth’s kidneys” to filter water and create a habitat for many plants and animals that form the base of the food chain that supports life on Earth.

TIME-lapse Travel

Wildfire burned almost 800,000 acres of Yellowstone National Park in 1988. In this series of Landsat images, watch how the park’s landcover recovered over the following 32 years.

Seeing the Forest for the Trees

We rely on plants and habitats to sustain human life. Landsat helps us see how these ecosystems change over time.

Then & Now

In the last 50 years, there have been four different types of Landsat spacecraft, better and better science instruments were carried on each new spacecraft generation.

+ Four Generations of Landsat Spacecraft

Plants play a very important role in our Earth’s ecosystem – to support life on Earth. Forests act like “lungs of the planet,” giving us oxygen and storing climate-warming carbon. Wetlands act as “Earth’s kidneys” to filter water and create a habitat for many plants and animals that form the base of the food chain that supports life on Earth.

TIME-lapse Travel

Wildfire burned almost 800,000 acres of Yellowstone National Park in 1988. In this series of Landsat images, watch how the park’s landcover recovered over the following 32 years.

Seeing the Forest for the Trees

We rely on plants and habitats to sustain human life. Landsat helps us see how these ecosystems change over time.

Then & Now

In the last 50 years, there have been four different types of Landsat spacecraft, better and better science instruments were carried on each new spacecraft generation.

+ Four Generations of Landsat Spacecraft

Landsat Collage Challenge

The Landsat series of satellites has been collecting visually stunning and scientifically valuable images of Earth since 1972. While Landsat data have played a critical role in the study of our land resources, images from these data have provided some of the most beautiful and unique colors, textures, and patterns of our planet. Explore these stunning patterns and colors from folded red mountain ridges, yellow dunes dotted with brilliant pools of blue water, and swirling clouds of blue-green phytoplankton.

+ Create your own Landsat collage and share with #CampLandsat

GLOBE Observer Trees

Trees give us oxygen, cool the landscape, and store carbon. To help understand changes in our climate, scientists need to understand how much carbon trees and forests either take in from or release into the atmosphere. One way scientists do this is by measuring tree height which is the most widely used indicator of an ecosystem’s ability to grow trees. Help scientists by estimating tree height with the GLOBE Observer Trees app.

DIY Clinometer

Measuring tree height is just one way that scientists study the health of forests. Scientists use a clinometer for measuring elevation or angles of slope and it can also be used to calculate the height of trees. Give it a try! Measure a tree in your neighborhood with your own paper clinometer.

Adventure of Echo the Bat

Discover how different habitats Join Echo the Bat on his journey through Arizona as he passes through five different habitats from ponderosa pine forests to desert habitats.

DIY Clinometer

Measuring tree height is just one way that scientists study the health of forests. Scientists use a clinometer for measuring elevation or angles of slope and it can also be used to calculate the height of trees. Give it a try! Measure a tree in your neighborhood with your own paper clinometer.

Adventure of Echo the Bat

Discover how different habitats Join Echo the Bat on his journey through Arizona as he passes through five different habitats from ponderosa pine forests to desert habitats.

Postcard from Camp

This week we visit the Sundarbans, a large mangrove forest located in West Bengal on the largest Delta in the world. Many land and marine animals rely on this habitat including dolphins, crabs, prawns, alligators and crocodiles. It’s also the natural habitat for the famous Royal Bengal Tigers and location of the Sundarban Tiger Reserve.

EO Kids

EO Kids is seeing green! Can people really change the color of our planet? Find out how Earth is greening up from forests and farms and how NASA can see our greener Earth from space.

Postcard from Camp

This week we visit the Sundarbans, a large mangrove forest located in West Bengal on the largest Delta in the world. Many land and marine animals rely on this habitat including dolphins, crabs, prawns, alligators and crocodiles. It’s also the natural habitat for the famous Royal Bengal Tigers and location of the Sundarban Tiger Reserve.

EO Kids

EO Kids is seeing green! Can people really change the color of our planet? Find out how Earth is greening up from forests and farms and how NASA can see our greener Earth from space.