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One Hundredth Drag Make-Up Maneuver for Landsat 8

One Hundredth Drag Make-Up Maneuver for Landsat 8

On October 5, 2023, at 2:26:00 EST (18:26:00 GMT), the USGS Landsat Flight Operations Team executed the 100th Drag Make-Up Maneuver (DMU) on the...

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Atmospheric Auxiliary Data Changes Affect Landsat 8-9 Level 2 Surface Reflectance Processing

Atmospheric Auxiliary Data Changes Affect Landsat 8-9 Level 2 Surface Reflectance Processing

Landsat Collection 2 Level 2 product processing requires auxiliary atmospheric characterization data from multiple external sources. Landsat 8 and...

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Using the Power of Landsat and Digital Earth Tools to Understand Coastlines in Australia and Africa

Using the Power of Landsat and Digital Earth Tools to Understand Coastlines in Australia and Africa

How leading-edge Landsat based Earth observation products and tools are helping us to understand Africa’s and Australia’s coastlines. This is the...

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New Paper Promotes the 50-year Landsat Collection 2 Archive

New Paper Promotes the 50-year Landsat Collection 2 Archive

Recognizing the need for consistently processed remotely sensed data, the USGS initiated collections-based processing to ensure superior radiometric...

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EROS 50th History: Responding to Disasters

EROS 50th History: Responding to Disasters

Landsat satellites captured vivid imagery of the massive fires blazing across Canada earlier this year: orange flames, ugly burn scars, thick smoke.

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Upcoming Webinar to Highlight Landsat

Upcoming Webinar to Highlight Landsat

The USGS EROS User Experience Webinar series includes presentations about data products as well as useful tools and services that impact users of data...

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EROS 50th History: Landsat Unites USGS and NASA

EROS 50th History: Landsat Unites USGS and NASA

Inspired by early images of the Earth from space, the Department of the Interior and the USGS had a bold idea in the 1960s to launch a satellite to...

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Celebrating a Half-Century at EROS

Celebrating a Half-Century at EROS

A half-century of capturing satellite imagery, teaching interpretation, and discovering new land change science distinguishes the USGS Earth Resource...

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Landsat Ground Station Operators Working Group 51st Meeting Held in Norway

Landsat Ground Station Operators Working Group 51st Meeting Held in Norway

The USGS Landsat International Cooperator Network, in coordination with the Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) and the Norwegian Space Agency (NOSA)...

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EROS 50th History: Library Provides Mission Support

EROS 50th History: Library Provides Mission Support

Fifty years ago, Don Lee Kulow’s personal remote sensing library laid the foundation for today’s library at the Earth Resources Observation and...

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