Landsat 9 Milestone

At the USGS EROS Center, we study land change and produce land change data products used by researchers, resource managers, and policy makers across the nation and around the world. We also operate the Landsat satellite program with NASA, and maintain the largest civilian collection of images of the Earth’s land surface in existence, including tens of millions of satellite images.

Eyes on Earth

Several guests from past Eyes on Earth episodes share how they value the Landsat imagery and archive, from forests and fires to lakes and cities.

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Image of the Week

Color thumbnail image for USGS EROS video "Catfish Ponds in Missississippi"

Mississippi leads the U.S. in catfish production. Pond acreage dropped by more than half from 2003 to 2013, however, as catfish gave way to other agricultural commodities. Landsat imagery captured across the decades documents the land use change.

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August 11, 2022

Landsat 9: USGS assumes control of newest satellite in Landsat program from NASA

August 2, 2022

Latest in Landsat August 2022 - Vol. 1 | Issue 3

July 27, 2022

Landsat Looks at the Moon

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Publications

August 5, 2022

Trends analysis of Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection (RCMAP) fractional component time series (1985–2020)

Rangelands have a dynamic response to climate change, fire, and other anthropogenic disturbances. The Rangeland Condition, Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (RCMAP) product aims to capture this response by quantifying the percent cover of eight rangeland components, associated error, and trends across the western United States using Landsat from 1985 to 2020. The current generation of RCMAP h

Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center

August 4, 2022

A comprehensive assessment of mangrove species and carbon stock on Pohnpei, Micronesia

Mangrove forests are the most important ecosystems on Pohnpei Island, Federated States of Micronesia, as the island communities of the central Pacific rely on the forests for many essential services including protection from sea-level rise that is occurring at a greater pace than the global average. As part of a multi-component assessment to evaluate vulnerabilities of mangrove forests on Pohnpei,

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July 28, 2022

Fifty years of Landsat science and impacts

Since 1972, the Landsat program has been continually monitoring the Earth, to now provide 50 years of digital, multispectral, medium spatial resolution observations. Over this time, Landsat data were crucial for many scientific and technical advances. Prior to the Landsat program, detailed, synoptic depictions of the Earth's surface were rare, and the ability to acquire and work with large dataset

Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center

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Science

July 21, 2022

Eyes on Earth Episode 78 – Landsat 50 Lookback

Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we look back at how past guests viewed the value of Landsat satellites and their 50-year history.

Core Science Systems, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center

July 21, 2022

Eyes on Earth Episode 78 – Landsat 50 Lookback

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June 27, 2022

Eyes on Earth Episode 76 – ECOSTRESS and Disease Risk

Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we learn how measurements from space can track risk of mosquito-borne disease.

Core Science Systems, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center

June 27, 2022

Eyes on Earth Episode 76 – ECOSTRESS and Disease Risk

Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we learn how measurements from space can track risk of mosquito-borne disease.

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June 15, 2022

Eyes on Earth Episode 75 – Mapping Dust Sources Worldwide

Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we hear about a mission to map the Earth’s minerals from above.

Core Science Systems, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center

June 15, 2022

Eyes on Earth Episode 75 – Mapping Dust Sources Worldwide

Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we hear about a mission to map the Earth’s minerals from above.

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