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Continuous Monitoring of Land Surface Change Over 30 Years Using the Landsat Record

Continuous Monitoring of Land Surface Change Over 30 Years Using the Landsat Record

The USGS Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection project has released a new suite of land-cover change products for the conterminous U.S.

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EROS Reaches Out to Kids with Landsat Activities

EROS Reaches Out to Kids with Landsat Activities

The Communication & Outreach (C&O) team at the Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center is working on some quick ways to connect with...

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Making Use of MSS: The Effort to Fold the Earliest Data into the Landsat Record

Making Use of MSS: The Effort to Fold the Earliest Data into the Landsat Record

It’s not uncommon for young scientists doing remote sensing research these days to use what they call the “full Landsat record” in their studies—a...

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Vanderhoof Uses Landsat to Look at the Ecological Impacts of Fire and Water

Vanderhoof Uses Landsat to Look at the Ecological Impacts of Fire and Water

Melanie Vanderhoof works in the realms of fire and water, studying how they change landscapes and influence the ecological rhythms of Nature.

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Remote Presentations No Problem for Successful Landsat 9 Mission Operations Review

Remote Presentations No Problem for Successful Landsat 9 Mission Operations Review

USGS and NASA officials made remote presentations instead of traveling to the Goddard Space Flight Center March 31-April 1 to conduct a vital Mission...

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Landsat Data Moving to Public Cloud in Early 2020

Landsat Data Moving to Public Cloud in Early 2020

The USGS is placing a copy of its consolidated Landsat global data inventory into a commercial cloud in early 2020.

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A Landsat Milestone: One Hundred Million Downloads

A Landsat Milestone: One Hundred Million Downloads

When the world began downloading the first freely available Landsat images on Oct. 1, 2008, a lot of people wondered just how much imagery would fly...

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Users Realize Significant Economic, Societal Benefits of Landsat

Users Realize Significant Economic, Societal Benefits of Landsat

What’s the value of data acquired from Landsat sensors when it comes to tracking toxic algal blooms in freshwater lakes? In monitoring vital habitat...

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Landsat, EROS Factor Heavily in New National Policy Plan for Earth Observation

Landsat, EROS Factor Heavily in New National Policy Plan for Earth Observation

The Landsat program and the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center have long held and important place in the nation’s Earth...

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Meet the USGS Landsat Project Scientist and Landsat Science Team Co-Chair

Meet the USGS Landsat Project Scientist and Landsat Science Team Co-Chair

Christopher “Chris” Crawford likes to say his roles with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) as a research physical scientist, the Landsat Project...

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Landsat, Collections Forum Updates Missions, Products, and Future Possibilities

Landsat, Collections Forum Updates Missions, Products, and Future Possibilities

EROS officials used a noon forum on Monday (Dec. 2) to provide high-level updates on multiple Landsat fronts—from progress on the building of Landsat...

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Global Study Finds Algal Blooms Intensifying in Freshwater Lakes Worldwide

Global Study Finds Algal Blooms Intensifying in Freshwater Lakes Worldwide

A study of global freshwater algal blooms funded in part by a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Landsat Science Team (LST) Award has found that harmful...

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