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Former Chief Scientist's contributions as head of Landsat Science Team, commitment to education recognized

Scientists at EROS use remote sensing data to assist in the understanding of water dynamics in Upper Klamath 

An eight-year effort to repatriate millions of Landsat scenes locked away in ground station outposts around the world reached a milestone in March...

In the old days, before 2008, a view of planet Earth from space often came at a cost. Want a Multispectral Scanner digital image in 1979 from Landsat...

It might seem at first blush that developing and building a ground system for the upcoming Landsat 9 mission would be less complicated than past...

The future of Landsat mission operations is unfolding these days on the Goddard Space Flight Center campus against a backdrop of hammers swinging and...

USGS has produced topographic maps of American landscapes for more than a century as part of its Congressional mandate to maintain the elevation data...

When it roared off into the blue California sky aboard an Atlas V rocket on February 11, 2013, Landsat 8 went with a mandate.

On February 1, 2018, at 7:12 a.m. CST, Landsat 7 began its 100,000th orbit. Like watching your car’s odometer flip over and seeing all those zeroes...

When a forest gives way to a potato field, when landscapes once teeming with wheat and barley disappear into seas of switchgrass, there are always...