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Las Vegas, Nevada and the area surrounding it has been and remains a popular region of interest when showcasing urban growth and land change using Landsat sensors.  

This graphic below displays the number of Landsat-related publications (orange line) starting in 1970. While publications decreased during the Commercialization Era, research rebounded greatly after the USGS open data policy decision in 2008.

This is an illustration of the Landsat 7 satellite acquiring imagery of the Earth from space. 

Nearly 3.4 million Landsat 7 Level-1 products are available for download from the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center archive. This map displays the density of the available Level-1 products acquired by Landsat 7 from April 1999 through January 2024.

This graphic displays the timeline of generating Landsat products.

Landsat 9 Collection 2 Level-1 products are delivered within 4-6 hours of acquisition.  Landsat 9 Level-2 Surface Reflectance and Surface Temperature products become available in about 3 days. 

See your name in Landsat imagery!   

This image was created using NASA's "Your Name in Landsat".  Check it out at https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameInLandsat-main/index.html.

Tarrabool Lake is a seasonal lake in Australia’s Northern Territory. While the lake’s water level fluctuates from year to year, its swampy wetlands and the surrounding tropical forested areas supports an essential habitat for small mammals, reptiles, and a wide variety of bird species. 

The Park Fire north of Sacramento in California forced thousands of residents to evacuate in late July as it spread to over 370,000 acres. The fire started on July 24th. Landsat 8 captured an image of the fire two days later.

Ocean currents, and the sediments they transport, have constantly shifted the Cape Cod barrier islands over time. Some of the abrupt changes, however, can be linked directly to a storm.

Alison Rose, Chief of Space Division, Geoscience Australia, and Darcee Killpack, acting Associate Director, Core Science Systems, United States Geological Survey, signing the Memorandum of Understanding formally operationalizing the Landsat Next partnership.

Minister for Foreign Affairs, Penny Wong, and U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, with the signed bilateral statement on the Landsat Next program.

Minister for Foreign Affairs, Penny Wong, and U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, with the signed bilateral statement on the Landsat Next program.

The USGS Landsat archive holds over fifty years of Earth-Observing satellite data. This animation displays the cumulative number of Landsat scenes since 1972. The colors on the maps show the density of the number of Landsat Level-1 products. 

The Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan area, also known as the Valley of the Sun, is comprised of more than 14,600 square miles and is considered the largest metropolitan area in the southwestern United States. The desert climate and abundant sunshine of the area are main factors in population growth and urban sprawl. 

The Railroad Valley Playa, located in east central Nevada, measures about 80 miles long and nearly 20 miles wide, and is a vast and wide-open landscape. 

Screen capture of the Queensland WetlandMaps website for the landscape around the Diamantina National park in Queensland, for which DEA WIT data can be viewed for selected wetlands.  WetlandMaps (des.qld.gov.au) 

Each year, June is National Ocean Month! 

Landsat 8 image acquired on June 24, 2024, showing the floods that affected Union County, South Dakota, and Plymouth County, Iowa. A multi-day heavy rainfall event in South Dakota, Iowa, and Minnesota led to widespread flooding across the region.

Landsat 8 image acquired on June 24, 2024, showing the floods that affected South Dakota and Iowa. A multi-day heavy rainfall event in South Dakota, Iowa, and Minnesota led to widespread flooding across the region.

Landsat 8's Operational Land Imager (OLI) captured this icy view of Ayon Island on June 17, 2024. The island's low-lying tundra and the shorelines create a picturesque view from its high latitude location in the East Siberian Sea. This unique polar landmass is separated from the mainland by the Malyy Chaunskiy Strait.

For 25 years, the Landsat 7 satellite acquired millions of images of Earth that supported studies of how land is used and how it has changed across urban, agriculture, forest, snow and ice-covered areas around the globe, as well as natural and manmade disasters.