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Landsat Collection 1 Datasets To Be Removed By End of 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.

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LCMAP Adds Data for 2021 with Release of Collection 1.3

LCMAP Adds Data for 2021 with Release of Collection 1.3

The USGS Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP) initiative has released the third update to its conterminous United States (CONUS)...

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New Landsat Collection 2 Science Products Released

New Landsat Collection 2 Science Products Released

Landsat Collection 2 Level-2 Provisional Aquatic Reflectance (AR) and Level-3 Provisional Actual Evapotranspiration (ETa) science products are now...

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Landsat Looks at the Moon

Landsat Looks at the Moon

On May 16, 2022, sky watchers were not the only ones observing the Moon during the longest total lunar eclipse in three decades. Two satellites that...

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Fifty Years of Landsat: Observing Earth to Look Forward

Fifty Years of Landsat: Observing Earth to Look Forward

On July 23, 2022, Landsat—a space-based Earth observation program conducted jointly by the U.S. Geological Survey and NASA—marks a half century of...

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Fifty Years of Landsat: Watchman for Wildfires

Fifty Years of Landsat: Watchman for Wildfires

Earth imagery is fundamental to the USGS fire mission to understand the causes, consequences, and benefits of wildfire. Imagery and data from Landsat...

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Special Issue: Landsat Update 50th Anniversary

Special Issue: Landsat Update 50th Anniversary

Landsat Updates are prepared periodically and distributed electronically to provide information about Landsat activities and related topics of...

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Fifty Years of Landsat: Impartial Eye on Climate Change

Fifty Years of Landsat: Impartial Eye on Climate Change

Landsat, a space-based Earth observation program conducted jointly by the U.S. Geological Survey and NASA, celebrates a half century of providing a...

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Landsat: Helping Us Help Ourselves for 50 Years

Landsat: Helping Us Help Ourselves for 50 Years

We can’t see them, but they’ve faithfully circled above us for 50 years. From hundreds of miles away, Landsat satellites have revealed details and...

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Fifty Years of Landsat: Observing Global Forests from above the Canopy

Fifty Years of Landsat: Observing Global Forests from above the Canopy

Around the world, forests provide timber and other wood products, fuel, flood control, biological diversity, recreation, carbon storage and much more...

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