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July 22, 2021

Landsat 9 Arrives at Vandenberg Space Force Base in Preparation for Launch

As reported in a recent NASA News Release, the Landsat 9 satellite arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base on the central coast of California on July 7...

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July 20, 2021

New Land Cover Maps Capture Nearly Two Decades of Change Across the U.S.

The U.S. Geological Survey recently released updated land cover maps for the conterminous United States that depict 18 years of change to the Nation’s...

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July 9, 2021

Examples of How Landsat Supports Great Lakes Restoration

Thousands of years ago, the receding Laurentide Ice Sheet gave North America a gift: five large lakes.

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July 8, 2021

Study of California Blue Oak Decline During Drought Draws Interest

A study published June 29, 2021 in the journal Frontiers in Climate, titled “Hotter Drought Escalates Tree Cover Declines in Blue Oak Woodlands of...

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July 8, 2021

Get Crafty with Landsat!

NASA Invites You to Create Landsat-Inspired Arts and Crafts

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July 7, 2021

ESPA now includes Collection 2 Spectral Indices and Services

A new software release to the EROS Science Processing Architecture (ESPA) On Demand Interface includes Landsat Collection 2 spectral indices and...

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July 6, 2021

New Data Access Tool Offers Faster, More User-Friendly Landsat Experience

LandsatLook 2.0 Viewer Optimized for Users of Commercial Cloud

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June 21, 2021

Landsat Update June 2021

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

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June 18, 2021

Land Use Models from EROS Offer Insight, Management Guidance for Delaware River Basin

In the mid-1960s, the city of Philadelphia faced a potential public health crisis.

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June 9, 2021

Landsat Collection 1 Forward Processing to Cease at the End of 2021

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June 2, 2021

Looking at Past, Future Spread of Invasive Plants Like Cheatgrass

A new publication about exotic annual grasses not only documents their abundance across the western United States, but peers into the past to assess...

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June 1, 2021

LANDFIRE Releases Disturbance Data for 2017-19 with LF 2019 Limited

A year ago, the Landscape Fire and Resource Planning Management Tools (LANDFIRE) Program released its 2016 Remap for the conterminous United States...

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