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Landsat at Work: Helping Farmers Keep Soil Healthy

Landsat at Work: Helping Farmers Keep Soil Healthy

For farmers, uncertainty is a constant. Much is beyond their control, and the weather is just one example. What looks like a bumper crop of soybeans...

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Landsat Celebrates Major Open Data Milestone

Landsat Celebrates Major Open Data Milestone

On July 14, 2025, downloads of Landsat products passed 200,000 terabytes (TB)—roughly equivalent to the storage capacity of one million smartphones...

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Landsat at Work: Preparing Residents Where Hurricanes Threaten

Landsat at Work: Preparing Residents Where Hurricanes Threaten

Landsat satellites can capture the image of a hurricane if they happen to be passing over at the right time, but they also help property owners and...

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Watching the ‘Wood Basket’ of the U.S.

Watching the ‘Wood Basket’ of the U.S.

The southeastern United States is an important wood-producing region of the world, sometimes referred to as the wood basket. The state of Georgia is a...

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Annual NLCD’s Insights Rely on Long Landsat Record

Annual NLCD’s Insights Rely on Long Landsat Record

Sometimes it takes distance to really see something. Take the Earth observing Landsat satellites. They’re orbiting 438 miles above us, but they...

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New Reference and Validation Data Available for Annual NLCD

New Reference and Validation Data Available for Annual NLCD

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has released the reference and validation data for Annual National Land Cover Database (NLCD) Conterminous U.S. (CU)...

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Celebrating 53 Years Since the Launch of Landsat 1

Celebrating 53 Years Since the Launch of Landsat 1

This article was written by the NASA and USGS Landsat Science Communication teams to mark the 53rd anniversary of Landsat 1.

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One Million Reasons to Celebrate Landsat 9

One Million Reasons to Celebrate Landsat 9

The USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center archive now contains more than one million Landsat 9 Level-1 products (that’s over 1...

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Plenty of Water in Prairie Potholes

Plenty of Water in Prairie Potholes

The landscape of the Prairie Pothole Region of North and South Dakota formed when glaciers from the last ice age receded. The potholes are shallow...

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