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Landsat at Work: Preparing Residents Where Hurricanes Threaten

Landsat at Work: Preparing Residents Where Hurricanes Threaten

Landsat satellites can capture the image of a hurricane if they happen to be passing over at the right time, but they also help property owners and...

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Watching the ‘Wood Basket’ of the U.S.

Watching the ‘Wood Basket’ of the U.S.

The southeastern United States is an important wood-producing region of the world, sometimes referred to as the wood basket. The state of Georgia is a...

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New Reference and Validation Data Available for Annual NLCD

New Reference and Validation Data Available for Annual NLCD

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has released the reference and validation data for Annual National Land Cover Database (NLCD) Conterminous U.S. (CU)...

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Celebrating 53 Years Since the Launch of Landsat 1

Celebrating 53 Years Since the Launch of Landsat 1

This article was written by the NASA and USGS Landsat Science Communication teams to mark the 53rd anniversary of Landsat 1.

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One Million Reasons to Celebrate Landsat 9

One Million Reasons to Celebrate Landsat 9

The USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center archive now contains more than one million Landsat 9 Level-1 products (that’s over 1...

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Plenty of Water in Prairie Potholes

Plenty of Water in Prairie Potholes

The landscape of the Prairie Pothole Region of North and South Dakota formed when glaciers from the last ice age receded. The potholes are shallow...

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Annual NLCD Lengthens Land Cover Record to 40 Years

Annual NLCD Lengthens Land Cover Record to 40 Years

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center and the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) project are...

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Landsat at Work: Energy Nurturing Nature

Landsat at Work: Energy Nurturing Nature

The more land managers know about the land they manage, the better decisions they can make. This applies to everyone from farmers and ranchers to...

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Upcoming processing to adjust framing on some Landsat 8 scenes

Upcoming processing to adjust framing on some Landsat 8 scenes

In 2023 and 2024, Landsat 8 experienced occasional issues with the ancillary data used in processing that impacted geolocation information in some...

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