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Below you'll find the most recent news about Landsat and USGS. Please contact Michelle Bouchard at mbouchard@usgs.gov for assistance with specific media questions and requests.

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Fifty Years of Landsat: Watchman for Wildfires

Fifty Years of Landsat: Watchman for Wildfires

Earth imagery is fundamental to the USGS fire mission to understand the causes, consequences, and benefits of wildfire. Imagery and data from Landsat...

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Special Issue: Landsat Update 50th Anniversary

Special Issue: Landsat Update 50th Anniversary

Landsat Updates are prepared periodically and distributed electronically to provide information about Landsat activities and related topics of...

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Fifty Years of Landsat: Impartial Eye on Climate Change

Fifty Years of Landsat: Impartial Eye on Climate Change

Landsat, a space-based Earth observation program conducted jointly by the U.S. Geological Survey and NASA, celebrates a half century of providing a...

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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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Reminder: Upcoming Interruption to Landsat Data Processing and Distribution, Web Sites

Reminder: Upcoming Interruption to Landsat Data Processing and Distribution, Web Sites

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

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STAC Metadata Release Includes Improved Geometric Accuracy Standards, Records Management

STAC Metadata Release Includes Improved Geometric Accuracy Standards, Records Management

All Landsat Collection 2 data stored in the Amazon Web Service (AWS) cloud platform include SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) metadata. A recent...

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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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New and Improved Bulk Data Download Application Available

New and Improved Bulk Data Download Application Available

An improved way to download large quantities of Landsat and other data from the USGS EROS archive is now available.

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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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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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