October 2022 - Vol. 1 | Issue 5
Collection 1 will retire by the end of 2022. The Pecora Remote Sensing Symposium will occur this October. Read about all of it in this month's issue of the Latest in Landsat newsletter.
Landsat Calibration/Validation Team Earns NASA Award
Adding a new satellite to the Landsat Program is no small task, even if the satellite is supposed to be a copy of its older sibling. Working to ensure that the data from Landsat 9 meets or exceeds the quality of data from Landsat 8 takes a dedicated team paying attention to the smallest details.
Pecora 22 Program and Registration Now Available
The 22nd William T. Pecora Memorial Remote Sensing Symposium (Pecora 22) will convene in Denver, Colorado, from October 24 – 27, 2022.
Landsat Collection 1 Datasets To Be Removed By End of 2022
All Landsat Collection 1 data and science products will be removed from USGS data access platforms by the end of 2022.
Opening the Aperture to Innovation
The 22nd William T. Pecora Memorial Remote Sensing Symposium (Pecora 22) will convene in Denver, Colorado, USA from October 23 – 28, 2022.
Landsat Science Team Meets, Celebrates Landsat 9 Transition
The 2018-2023 Landsat Science Team met for their summer meeting at the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center in Sioux Falls, S.D. on August 9-11, 2022. This first in-person meeting in 3 years was scheduled to allow the Team and all attendees to witness the formal transition of the Landsat 9 operations from NASA to the USGS.
Eyes on Earth Episode 79 – Landsat Global Archive Consolidation
Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we learn about the process that has gradually added millions of earlier Landsat scenes to the 50-year archive.
Landsat 9 Captures Swirling Hurricane Ian
For five decades, Landsat satellites have captured a variety of natural disasters and their effects. The most recently launched, Landsat 9, peered down at Hurricane Ian on Tuesday morning as the dangerous storm swept over Cuba and then headed toward Florida, where it made landfall Wednesday afternoon.
USGS Sentinel-2 Data Archive Ends Soon
The USGS Sentinel-2 archive will soon be decommissioned.
Ladies in Landsat in attendance at the Landsat Science Team August 2022
This picture shows the "Ladies in Landsat" who attended the August 2022 Landsat Science Team in person, at the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Visit the Landsat Science Teams webpage for more information about the Landsat Science Team.