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Landsat Science Products

Climate Products that Get to the Heart of Change

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Landsat in the Cloud

Flexible, Customized Access to Satellite Data

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Landsat Benefits, State by State

How does your state use Landsat data?

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Landsat Legacy

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Earth Observation Case Studies

Urban Change, Machine Learning, Agriculture, User Profiles and More!

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Remote Sensing Image Galleries

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External Engagement for the Benefit of All

NLI's Partnerships, Collaborations

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National Land Imaging Program

Our Nation’s economic security and environmental vitality rely on continuous monitoring of the Earth’s continents, islands, and coastal regions in order to record, study, and understand land change at local, regional, and global scales. The USGS National Land Imaging (NLI) Program helps meet this need.

Image of the Week

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The completion of the Daniel-Johnson Dam in 1968 united two river systems, creating the Manicouagan Reservoir, or the Eye of Quebec, in the Côte-Nord region of Canada.

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Landsat Satellites

Three Landsats in Space

Over the course of fifty years, eight Landsat satellites have observed the Earth's surface. View each satellite's history and science including first light images, significant events, and unique science for each satellite.

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Follow these links to learn more about our remote sensing research partnerships, how to access and download data, our image collections, news articles, and more.

Landsat's Legacy

News

USGS-NASA Award Honors Excellence in Earth Observation

USGS-NASA Award Honors Excellence in Earth Observation

Landsat Next and Emerging Applications to be Featured at AGU Annual Meeting

Landsat Next and Emerging Applications to be Featured at AGU Annual Meeting

USGS EROS Poster Session Links Students, Scientists

USGS EROS Poster Session Links Students, Scientists

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Publications

Landsat geometric and radiometric calibration and characterization

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science Calibration and Validation (Cal/Val) Center of Excellence (ECCOE) focuses on improving the accuracy, precision, calibration, and product quality of remote-sensing data, leveraging years of multiscale optical system geometric and radiometric calibration and characterization experience. The ECCOE Landsat Cal/Val team continual
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Jerad Shaw, Cody Anderson, Mike Choate, Esad Micijevic
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National Land Imaging Program, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center , EROS CalVal Center of Excellence (ECCOE), Landsat Missions

Earth observation remote sensing tools—Assessing systems, trends, and characteristics

With the ever-increasing number of civil and commercial remote-sensing satellite launches in recent years, the Earth Observation community needs to better understand the quality of new data products as they become available for scientific research purposes.
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Simon J. Cantrell, Jeff Clauson, Cody Anderson
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Core Science Systems Mission Area, National Land Imaging Program, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center , EROS CalVal Center of Excellence (ECCOE), Requirements Capabilities & Analysis for Earth Observations

Joint Agency Commercial Imagery Evaluation (JACIE)

The Joint Agency Commercial Imagery Evaluation (JACIE) was formed to leverage resources from several Federal agencies for the characterization of remote sensing data and to share those results across the remote sensing community (U.S. Geological Survey, 2024).Remote sensing data and the quality of that data are vital to (1) understanding the physical world and (2) supporting the science and engine
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Jeff Clauson, Cody Anderson, Jim Vrabel
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Core Science Systems Mission Area, National Land Imaging Program, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center , EROS CalVal Center of Excellence (ECCOE), Requirements Capabilities & Analysis for Earth Observations
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Thumbnail image for Eyes on Earth Episode 129 – What Happens During a Landsat Pass?, showing Aaron Hensley and Eric Gaspar

Eyes on Earth Episode 129 – What Happens During a Landsat Pass?

For this episode, we go inside the Landsat operations room at EROS to see what happens during a live Landsat pass.
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Core Science Systems Mission Area, National Land Imaging Program, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center , Landsat Missions
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Eyes on Earth Episode 129 – What Happens During a Landsat Pass?

For this episode, we go inside the Landsat operations room at EROS to see what happens during a live Landsat pass.
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Eyes on Earth Episode 128 – 2024 EROS Fall Poster Session

Posters covered a wide range of topics as local graduate students and EROS scientists shared their work in the EROS atrium.
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Core Science Systems Mission Area, National Land Imaging Program, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center , Landsat Missions
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Eyes on Earth Episode 128 – 2024 EROS Fall Poster Session

Posters covered a wide range of topics as local graduate students and EROS scientists shared their work in the EROS atrium.
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Eyes on Earth Episode 127 – The Historic Landsat 7 Mission

Taking care of a satellite that’s 438 miles in space requires creative problem solving—we talk about those moments and memories of the nearly 25 years of land imaging from Landsat 7.
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Core Science Systems Mission Area, National Land Imaging Program, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center , Landsat Legacy, Landsat Missions
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Eyes on Earth Episode 127 – The Historic Landsat 7 Mission

Taking care of a satellite that’s 438 miles in space requires creative problem solving—we talk about those moments and memories of the nearly 25 years of land imaging from Landsat 7.
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