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Midwestern Roots tie Landsat Mural Artist to USGS EROS Center

Midwestern Roots tie Landsat Mural Artist to USGS EROS Center

Lompoc, California and the Landsat program have a long and storied history.

All eight Landsat satellites have launched from the military installation...

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Landsat 9 Arrives at Vandenberg Space Force Base in Preparation for Launch

Landsat 9 Arrives at Vandenberg Space Force Base in Preparation for Launch

As reported in a recent NASA News Release, the Landsat 9 satellite arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base on the central coast of California on July 7...

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New Land Cover Maps Capture Nearly Two Decades of Change Across the U.S.

New Land Cover Maps Capture Nearly Two Decades of Change Across the U.S.

The U.S. Geological Survey recently released updated land cover maps for the conterminous United States that depict 18 years of change to the Nation’s...

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Examples of How Landsat Supports Great Lakes Restoration

Examples of How Landsat Supports Great Lakes Restoration

Thousands of years ago, the receding Laurentide Ice Sheet gave North America a gift: five large lakes.

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Study of California Blue Oak Decline During Drought Draws Interest

Study of California Blue Oak Decline During Drought Draws Interest

A study published June 29, 2021 in the journal Frontiers in Climate, titled “Hotter Drought Escalates Tree Cover Declines in Blue Oak Woodlands of...

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Get Crafty with Landsat!

Get Crafty with Landsat!

NASA Invites You to Create Landsat-Inspired Arts and Crafts
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ESPA now includes Collection 2 Spectral Indices and Services

ESPA now includes Collection 2 Spectral Indices and Services

A new software release to the EROS Science Processing Architecture (ESPA) On Demand Interface includes Landsat Collection 2 spectral indices and...

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New Data Access Tool Offers Faster, More User-Friendly Landsat Experience

New Data Access Tool Offers Faster, More User-Friendly Landsat Experience

LandsatLook 2.0 Viewer Optimized for Users of Commercial Cloud

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Landsat Update June 2021

Landsat Update June 2021

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

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Land Use Models from EROS Offer Insight, Management Guidance for Delaware River Basin

Land Use Models from EROS Offer Insight, Management Guidance for Delaware River Basin

In the mid-1960s, the city of Philadelphia faced a potential public health crisis.

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Landsat Collection 1 Forward Processing to Cease at the End of 2021

Landsat Collection 1 Forward Processing to Cease at the End of 2021

 

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Looking at Past, Future Spread of Invasive Plants Like Cheatgrass

Looking at Past, Future Spread of Invasive Plants Like Cheatgrass

A new publication about exotic annual grasses not only documents their abundance across the western United States, but peers into the past to assess...

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