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During Landsat Collection 2 data processing in 2020, several Landsat 8 images acquired from November 1 and November 2, 2015 were processed to Level-1...

Nominations for the 2021 William T. Pecora Award are now being accepted through May 14, 2021. 

As previously announced on January 14, 2021, NASA and USGS calibration and validation engineers have observed a slow reduction in the radiometric...

The extensive rangelands across the Western United States are threatened by invasive grasses, climate change, and altered fire regimes that can...

A river meanders serenely through the northern prairie, waters flowing eastward. The scene’s simplicity belies the complex nature of how the water is...

Scientists at the Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center have developed an algorithm that fuses Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 data in a way...

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

Since ​November 2020, NASA and USGS calibration and validation engineers have observed a slow reduction in radiometric response from Landsat 8's...

Landsat satellites exist to provide information—millions of images’ worth of information—about the Earth’s surface.

One of the interesting fields in remote sensing science is the study of albedo, a term derived from the Latin word for whiteness. Albedo is another...