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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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Select Landsat Collection 2 Level-1 Data Reprocessed

Select Landsat Collection 2 Level-1 Data Reprocessed

Select Landsat Collection 2 Level-1 data from 1984 to 2020 were reprocessed on June 2, 2022, due to an intermittent issue that did not allow them to...

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LANDFIRE Datasets Produced by USGS EROS Support Nationwide Fire Risk Tool

LANDFIRE Datasets Produced by USGS EROS Support Nationwide Fire Risk Tool

In late May 2022, several national media outlets published stories about a new online tool that allows any resident of the United States with Internet...

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New GloVis Release Features Include Landsat Collection 2

New GloVis Release Features Include Landsat Collection 2

The USGS Global Visualization Viewer (GloVis) has been updated to add Landsat Collection 2 and includes Landsat 9 scenes.

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USGS Landsat is moving to a new newsletter delivery system.

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Landsat 9 Data to be Reprocessed at the End of 2022

Landsat 9 Data to be Reprocessed at the End of 2022

All Landsat 9 Collection 2 Operational Land Imager (OLI) and Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) data will be reprocessed at the end of 2022 to take...

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Fifty Years of Landsat: Pioneer in Promoting Food Security from Space

Fifty Years of Landsat: Pioneer in Promoting Food Security from Space

Celebrating 50 years of continuous Earth observation, the joint U.S. Geological Survey/NASA Landsat program of Earth observation satellites has...

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USGS EROS Releases Enhanced Bulk Download Web Application

USGS EROS Releases Enhanced Bulk Download Web Application

The USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center has just released an upgraded Bulk Download Web Application (BDWA).

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FEWS NET Shares Technology to Help Ethiopian Herders

FEWS NET Shares Technology to Help Ethiopian Herders

Drought can despair anyone whose livelihood depends on rain. Crops wither, along with the hope of an income for the year. In countries like Ethiopia...

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Upcoming GloVis Release Includes Interface Improvements, Landsat Collection 2

Upcoming GloVis Release Includes Interface Improvements, Landsat Collection 2

On June 15, 2022, a new release of the USGS Global Visualization Viewer (GloVis) will add Landsat Collection 2 Level-1 data, which includes Landsat 9...

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USGS EROS Teams Offer Replacement for Expiring Satellite Vegetation Monitoring Datasets

USGS EROS Teams Offer Replacement for Expiring Satellite Vegetation Monitoring Datasets

When the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) was first launched into low Earth orbit 24 years ago, it held the promise of daily and...

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Landsat 9 Products Now Available from ESPA

Landsat 9 Products Now Available from ESPA

Landsat 9 Collection 2 products can now be requested for processing from the EROS Science Processing Architecture (ESPA) On Demand Interface.

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