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Celebrating a Decade of Landsat 8

Celebrating a Decade of Landsat 8

Landsat 8 celebrates its tenth anniversary this week on Saturday, February 11, 2023. The technology of the satellite and its instruments...

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New RCMAP Fact Sheet Offers User-Friendly Overview

New RCMAP Fact Sheet Offers User-Friendly Overview

The mission of the Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection (RCMAP) project housed at the Earth Resources Observation and Science...

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Landsat 8 Data from Recent Safehold Available in Provisional State

Landsat 8 Data from Recent Safehold Available in Provisional State

On Thursday, January 26, 2023, an anomaly caused the Landsat 8 spacecraft to enter a safehold mode. The spacecraft recovered from the safehold on...

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Tools Help Scientists Wrangle LCMAP Data and More

Tools Help Scientists Wrangle LCMAP Data and More

The USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center archive contains 50 years—and counting—of Earth observations in Landsat data. It’s no...

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Landsat Satellites Operated from EROS for First Time

Landsat Satellites Operated from EROS for First Time

For the first time ever, the commands to operate the Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 satellites came directly from the USGS Earth Resources Observation and...

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2022 from Landsat's View

2022 from Landsat's View

Remember historic Landsat Mission events with a new interactive webpage.

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Ring in the New Year with Landsat Collection 2

Ring in the New Year with Landsat Collection 2

As of December 30, 2022, Landsat Collection 1 data and science products are no longer downloadable from the USGS.

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2022 Year in Review for USGS EROS

2022 Year in Review for USGS EROS

Plenty of significant occasions and accomplishments were celebrated by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center in 2022.

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Jim Rowland Is Retiring from USGS EROS, But His Workplace Stretched to Africa

Jim Rowland Is Retiring from USGS EROS, But His Workplace Stretched to Africa

Thirty years ago, a contractor at USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center hired a man who could speak French—in a strong Quebec...

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