Latest in Landsat - May 2024 - Vol. 3 | Issue 5
Landsat 7 Celebrates Silver Anniversary
On April 15, 1999, the Landsat 7 satellite launched into space carrying the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) sensor onboard. For 25 years the satellite has been orbiting our planet and capturing images that help scientists and land managers monitor changes in land cover and aid in natural disaster response.
Eyes on Earth Episode 117 – Preparing for Landsat Next, Part 1
Learn about the details of the upcoming new mission Landsat Next and its benefits to science and society.
Landsat QA ArcGIS Pro Toolbox
Landsat Quality Assessment (QA) bands provide helpful information for evaluating the overall usefulness of individual pixels. Each pixel in the QA band contains an integer value that represents bit-packed combinations of surface, atmospheric, and sensor conditions that can affect pixel quality. The Landsat QA Toolbox will allow users to extract those bits of QA information on ArcPro and ArcMap sys
2024 William T. Pecora Award Nominations Now Being Accepted
June 15th, 2024, is the last day.
SSEBop evapotranspiration estimates using synthetically derived Landsat data from the continuous change detection and classification algorithm
The operational Simplified Surface Energy Balance (SSEBop) model has been utilized to generate gridded evapotranspiration data from Landsat images. These estimates are primarily driven by two sources of information: reference evapotranspiration and Landsat land surface temperature (LST) values. Hence, SSEBop is limited by the availability of Landsat data. Here, in this proof-of-concept paper, we u
Maximizing Accuracy of Rangeland Data
Project Manager Matthew Rigge and the Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection (RCMAP) team take an almost businesslike approach to producing datasets: Giving customers what they need to manage lands across the West.
ECCOE Landsat quarterly Calibration and Validation report—Quarter 4, 2023
Executive SummaryThe U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Calibration and Validation (Cal/Val) Center of Excellence (ECCOE) focuses on improving the accuracy, precision, calibration, and product quality of remote-sensing data, leveraging years of multiscale optical system geometric and radiometric calibration and characterization experience. The ECCOE Landsat Cal/Val Team
Landsat Images the Twilight Zone—New Eyes on Earth Episode
A new Eyes on Earth podcast discusses a special acquisition campaign called the Landsat Extended Acquisition of the Poles (LEAP). We spoke with Chris Crawford, the Landsat Project Scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center overseeing the Landsat Earth data acquisition strategy. He also mentioned how users can request special acquisitions.
SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC)
The SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) family of specifications helps standardize the way geospatial metadata is structured and queried.
This page describes many STAC components - a browser, an API, samples, and tutorials. Review each section below to learn all about STAC.
Eyes on Earth Episode 116 – Landsat Images the Twilight Zone
A new Landsat project is adding more images of polar regions so that rapid changes happening there can be mapped in more detail.
Landsat Acquisition Tool
The Landsat Acquisition Tool helps determine when the Landsat satellites acquire data over specific areas of interest, displaying the paths that were acquired on any given day.
How Do You Landsat Interactive
This interactive map contains examples of regional and global projects that utilize Landsat data to assist policymakers and land managers in making informed decisions about our environment and Earth’s natural resources.
Landsat 8 image of the Salton Sea 2023
This Landsat 8 image shows the Salton Sea and surrounding area in California. Landsat 8Path 39 Row 37October 18, 2023Bands 6,5,4