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When the next planned Landsat mission, Landsat Next, reaches orbit in about 2030, three new satellites will be collecting Earth observation data in...

Landsat satellites 8 and 9 orbit at 438 miles above the Earth’s surface and collect imagery that is used to improve the quality of our lives...

This year’s Joint Agency Commercial Imagery Evaluation (JACIE) Workshop set all kinds of records—more commercial vendors, more presentations, a new...

The GEOINT 2024 Symposium taking place May 5-8, 2024, in Florida features a Government Hub panel discussion on the Landsat 2030 Initiative that...

The NASA Curiosity rover continues to make progress along the margin of upper Gediz Vallis ridge.

A new Eyes on Earth podcast discusses a special acquisition campaign called the Landsat Extended Acquisition of the Poles (LEAP). We spoke with Chris...

On April 15, 1999, the Landsat 7 satellite launched into space carrying the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) sensor onboard. For 25 years the...

DURANGO, Colo.— Weather contingent, U.S. Geological Survey crews will be deploying various airborne technologies to better understand avalanche prone...

The USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Calibration and Validation (Cal/Val) Center of Excellence (ECCOE) focuses on improving the...

Learning from the past and planning for the future. Using Earth observation products and tools in the fight to achieve global food security. This is...