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The Landsat Ground Station Operators Working Group (LGSOWG) just held its 50th meeting. At the meeting in South Africa, the group

also commemorated the 50th anniversary of the South African National Space Agency Hartebeesthoek ground station.

On April 6, 2022, the Landsat 7 ETM+ sensor will be placed into “stand-by” mode as a series of spacecraft burns are performed throughout the month of April to lower the satellite’s orbit by 8 kilometers. This graphic displays how the Landsat 7 spacecraft orbit lowers following each of the spacecraft burns. 

This color infrared image of Southeast South Dakota and Northeast Nebraska was advertised as the first image acquired by Landsat 7's Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) sensor on April 18, 1999. 

The latest Landsat Update is available for the public. Text on image reads: "Landsat Update: March 2022. Learn the latest Landsat information and news. What's inside? Pecora 22 upcoming meeting, Landsat 9 mission status, Landsat 9 data available, Collection 2 Level 3 products available, Archive reaches 10 million scenes, Landsat Science Team meeting.

Social media posts from February for the March 2022 Landsat Update. Available via Landsat Missions.

Description of the Pecora Award. This image details the procedure for nominations, eligibility, and privacy statement. 

Pecora 2022 award flyer announcing call for nominations. Nominations due April 15, 2022.

Pecora 2022 award flyer announcing call for nominations, due April 15, 2022.

Landsat 9 captured this natural color image of the ongoing fire in Uljin county on South Korea’s west coast.

Landsat 9 captured an image of the ongoing fire in Uljin county on South Korea’s west coast. The false color image looks beneath the smoke and shows the burn scar as reddish-brown and the heat signature from the fire as bright red.

A Landsat Surface Reflectance (SR) Normalized Difference Index (NDVI) map of the San Joaquin Valley region of California on March 10, 2022.

The Landsat Science Team met virtually on February 9, 2022. Topics included, but were not limited to, Landsat 9 operations, calibration, and data release plans; Landsat 7 mission status; Landsat and Sentinel harmonization; and the future of land imaging.

This Landsat 9 image shows a portion of the Otago Harbor area that is situated on the southeastern coastline of New Zealand's South Island. 

The city of Dunedin can be seen at the the head of the harbor. 

This image was acquired March 2, 2022. 

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Rangeland management has used Landsat imagery for 50 years. Satellite imagery can provide a more comprehensive view of native pastures and prairies that cover swaths of Western America.



A new paper in Elsevier provides four guiding principles for ranges:

1. Use maps within a decision-making framework

Landsat 9 natural color image (Bands 4, 3, 2) of the Bangladesh coastline on the Bay of Bengal acquired on February 8, 2022. The Sundarbans mangrove forest, a protected UNESCO area, appears as dark green on the left side of the image. The right side of the image shows agricultural lands and urban areas as light tan and gray.

False color image of Landsat 9 image of the St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida area as seen by Landsat 9 on January 30, 2022. Between Landsat 8 and Landsat 9, the Landsat program delivers complete coverage of the Earth’s surface every eight days. 

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This natural color Landsat 9 image from December 10, 2021 shows the cities of San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland surrounding the San Francisco Bay. The bay is the largest estuary on the west coast and includes a patchwork of mud flats, salt marshes, and salt ponds.

The deadline for Special Sessions and Abstracts has been extended to March 15, 2022.

Landscape ecologists are increasingly researching change processes with regards to spatial patterns.

The Geba River on the west coast of Guinea-Bissau is seen in this natural color Landsat 9 image from February 8, 2022. Silt carried by the river into the Atlantic Ocean creates intricate patterns as it moves around the Bissagos (or Bijagós) Islands. The country’s capital, Bissau, can be seen on the north side of the estuary and appears as light brown.

This map shows where Landsat Collection 2 fractional Snow Covered Area (fSCA) and Canopy Adjusted fSCA data is available for the conterminous United States (top) and Alaska (below). To learn more visit the Landsat Collection 2 fSCA science products web page.