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Landsat: Helping Us Help Ourselves for 50 Years

Landsat: Helping Us Help Ourselves for 50 Years

We can’t see them, but they’ve faithfully circled above us for 50 years. From hundreds of miles away, Landsat satellites have revealed details and...

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Maps and Imagery for Hurricane Response

Maps and Imagery for Hurricane Response

The 2022 Atlantic Hurricane Season runs from June 1 through November 30. Throughout the season, the U.S. Geological Survey will be providing science...

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Select Landsat 8 Scenes Acquired in May Recently Reprocessed

Select Landsat 8 Scenes Acquired in May Recently Reprocessed

Fifty-eight Landsat 8 scenes acquired from WRS-2 Paths 95, 111, and 127 from May 17, 2022 (DOY137) were reprocessed on July 12, 2022.

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Fifty Years of Landsat: Observing Global Forests from above the Canopy

Fifty Years of Landsat: Observing Global Forests from above the Canopy

Around the world, forests provide timber and other wood products, fuel, flood control, biological diversity, recreation, carbon storage and much more...

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Reprocessed Landsat 9 Data Acquired from June 20-21, 2022

Reprocessed Landsat 9 Data Acquired from June 20-21, 2022

The Landsat Calibration and Validation Team identified 130 Landsat 9 scenes acquired from June 20-21, 2022, over a period of nine hours, that were...

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Upcoming Maintenance to Interrupt Landsat Data Processing and Distribution

Upcoming Maintenance to Interrupt Landsat Data Processing and Distribution

Maintenance planned for Saturday, July 16, 2022, will cause an extended interruption of Landsat data processing and data distribution portals.  To...

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LP DAAC Conference Provides Direction and In-Person Energy

LP DAAC Conference Provides Direction and In-Person Energy

Engaged expressions. Body language. Animated speakers. After two years of virtual meetings, talking in person with some members of the User Working...

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Fifty Years of Landsat: Sharing Earth information for the benefit of all

Fifty Years of Landsat: Sharing Earth information for the benefit of all

In 2022, the Landsat series of satellites, a program conducted jointly by the U.S. Geological Survey and NASA, celebrates a half century of worldwide...

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Missed Imaging Opportunity for Landsat 8

Missed Imaging Opportunity for Landsat 8

On June 14, 2022 (DOY165), Landsat 8 missed imaging opportunities due to an issue with the payload scheduling software. The issue was quickly...

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Newly Updated EarthNow! Landsat Image Viewer Includes Landsat 9

Newly Updated EarthNow! Landsat Image Viewer Includes Landsat 9

The EarthNow! Landsat Image Viewer displays near-real time imagery created from data acquired by Landsat satellites as they cross over the Earth...

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Upcoming Interruption to Landsat Collection 2 Data Access

Upcoming Interruption to Landsat Collection 2 Data Access

Access to Landsat Collection 2 Level-1 and Level-2 data via USGS data access portals will be unavailable on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, for inventory...

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