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In western North America, mountain pine beetles infest and ravage thousands of acres of forest lands. Landsat satellites bear witness to the onslaught...

Satellites working together in this week’s EarthView to track a Russian Wildfire...

Landsat shows how coal development in the Powder River Basin has changed the landscape since 1984...

From the Fort McMurray wildfire, our EarthView turns now to flooding in Sri Lanka...

This week’s EarthView is of the Fort McMurray wildfire again, this time showing the extent of the wildfire...

See the Fort McMurray wildfire in Landsat's infrared in this week’s EarthView

As droughts rage and aquifers dwindle, people may wonder: Is there enough water to meet all our needs?  Landsat satellites are helping to answer that...

Since late 2008, when Landsat earth observation images were made available to all users free of charge, nearly 30 million Landsat scenes have been...

Located near the western edge of the Sahara Desert, the Eye of the Sahara is a feature that resembles a large eye when viewed from space. Also known...

Landsat satellite data have been produced, archived, and distributed by the U.S. Geological Survey since 1972. Data users in many different fields...