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Below you'll find the most recent news about Landsat and USGS. Please contact Michelle Bouchard at mbouchard@usgs.gov for assistance with specific media questions and requests.

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Changes Coming to Landsat’s Simple Notification Service on Amazon Web Service

Changes Coming to Landsat’s Simple Notification Service on Amazon Web Service

Updates being made this week to the commercial cloud access infrastructure at the USGS EROS Center will affect the Amazon Web Service (AWS) Simple...

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Upcoming Interruption to Landsat Commercial Cloud Access and Product Downloads

Upcoming Interruption to Landsat Commercial Cloud Access and Product Downloads

From 8:00 a.m. CDT Tuesday, June 27th to 4:00 p.m. CDT Wednesday June 28th, access to some Landsat Collection 2 products will be unavailable while...

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Landsat Level-1 Data Processing Resumes

Landsat Level-1 Data Processing Resumes

On Sunday May 28, 2023 it was reported that Level-1 processing of all newly acquired Landsat 7, 8, and 9 data was halted due to system errors. After...

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Technical Issues Pause Landsat Data Processing

Technical Issues Pause Landsat Data Processing

As of Sunday, May 28, 2023: Technical issues are currently impacting the forward processing of new Landsat products. These issues are being...

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Landsat 9 Data Reprocessing Complete, Level-3 Products Now Available

Landsat 9 Data Reprocessing Complete, Level-3 Products Now Available

The effort to reprocess all Landsat 9 data held in the USGS EROS Archive since launch is now completed, and for the first time, has enabled the...

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Moon Impacts Recent Landsat 9 Thermal Imagery

Moon Impacts Recent Landsat 9 Thermal Imagery

The USGS/NASA Landsat Calibration and Validation Team discovered that four Landsat 9 Earth image intervals acquired on May 10, 2023, were impacted by...

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GOES-16 ABI Added to Land Product Characterization System

GOES-16 ABI Added to Land Product Characterization System

The USGS Land Product Characterization System allows for the trending of system characterizations for various sensors, and provides the ability to do...

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Landsat Update — Final Issue, May 2023

Landsat Update — Final Issue, May 2023

Since 2000, Landsat Updates have provided important and timely updates about the USGS Landsat project.

Recently we launched a new outlet to share...

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Landsat 8 Level-1 Product Processing Resumes

Landsat 8 Level-1 Product Processing Resumes

The processing of Landsat 8 Level-1 products has resumed, following a brief pause due to an error that occurred during a standard calibration collect...

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Pecora Nominations Deadline Extended to June 15

Pecora Nominations Deadline Extended to June 15

The deadline for Pecora Award nominations has been extended to June 15, 2023.

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