Images

In November 2023 the Svartsengi volcanic system awakened after almost 800 years with a series of earthquakes that opened large cracks in the on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula.  An eruption on December 18th spewed lava away from the nearby coastal town of Grindavik, but the January 14, 2024 eruption sent lava directly toward the town.

Fractional cover of Olifants River, Koekenaap, South Africa, with 3-month intervals captured in 2020 processed by Digital Earth Africa with legend showing the RBG (Red-Blue-Green) breakdown. Image credit: Geoscience Australia

The GAIMS agricultural data mapping platform using data from DE Africa’s Monthly Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) service within an integrated platform. Image credit: Geoscience Australia

Ministry of Agriculture staff in Zambia mapping and analyzing crop production. Photo credit: Geoscience Australia

Timon Weitkamp and the team collecting field data on irrigation techniques in Mozambique. Photo credit: Geoscience Australia

2024 Pecora Award image for upcoming award nominations. Dr. William Thomas Pecora, Director of the USGS. Served from 1965-1971, also served as Under Secretary of the Interior. 

Pisonia forest where coconuts have already been eradicated on Palmyra Atoll. The forest is lush and green.

This table shows the Landsat 8-9 Collection 2 Quality Assessment pixel (QA_PIXEL) Value Interpretations. QA_PIXEL Band file contains quality statistics gathered from the image data and cloud mask information for the scene.

Number of scenes acquired by the Landsat 7 Extended Science Mission from May 5, 2022 - January 19, 2024. 

The USGS Landsat International Cooperator Network met for the Landsat Technical Working Group (LTWG) #32 meeting in Orlando, Florida USA during the first week of February.

The Okavango Delta in Botswana, one of the world’s great inland waterways, is an UNESCO World Heritage Site as well as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa.  

Landsat 7 Image of the Southern Fringe of the Rub' al-Khali Sand Desert near Al-Hashman, Oman. This gap-filled image was captured on January 18, 2024 and is shown using the shortwave infrared, near infrared and red bands (Bands 5|4|3).

To learn more about the Landsat Program visit www.usgs.gov/landsat

This image, displaying a small area of the Sea of Okhotsk shoreline, is one of over 4,000 Landsat 8 Level-1 scenes that were acquired between January 1 and January 6, 2024, and reprocessed on January 12, 2024 with an updated Calibration Parameter file.

The radome at the USGS EROS Center houses the satellite dish that receives data from the Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 satellites as they pass over. 

This image of the Van Diemen Gulf was acquired by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) onboard the Landsat 8 satellite on November 18, 2023.

Natural color image of the White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire, as seen by Landsat 9 on October 4th, 2023.

WRS-2 Path 013 Row 029.

Bands 4,3,2

Landsat Scene ID LC09_L2SP_013029_20231004_20231005_02_T1

This image shows the Landsat Flight Operations Team monitoring the maneuver in real time.  

This image shows the Landsat Flight Operations Team.

This image shows the Landsat flight Operations Team monitoring a pre burn contact, ensuring the satellite is ready for the maneuver.

Landsat 9 captured this image of Snæfellsjökull, a glacier-capped volcano that sits at the tip of the Snæfellsnes Peninsula in west Iceland on August 9, 2023. 

WRS-2 Path 222 Row 214

Bands 6,5,4

To learn more about Landsat, visit https://www.usgs.gov/landsat-missions. 

Landsat 8's Operational Land Imager (OLI) captured this image of the Mississippi River Delta on September 18, 2023. 

Landsat 8

Path 21 Row

September 18, 2023

Bands 6,5,4