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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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Vanderhoof Uses Landsat to Look at the Ecological Impacts of Fire and Water

Vanderhoof Uses Landsat to Look at the Ecological Impacts of Fire and Water

Melanie Vanderhoof works in the realms of fire and water, studying how they change landscapes and influence the ecological rhythms of Nature.

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Remote Presentations No Problem for Successful Landsat 9 Mission Operations Review

Remote Presentations No Problem for Successful Landsat 9 Mission Operations Review

USGS and NASA officials made remote presentations instead of traveling to the Goddard Space Flight Center March 31-April 1 to conduct a vital Mission...

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Landsat Data Moving to Public Cloud in Early 2020

Landsat Data Moving to Public Cloud in Early 2020

The USGS is placing a copy of its consolidated Landsat global data inventory into a commercial cloud in early 2020.

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A Landsat Milestone: One Hundred Million Downloads

A Landsat Milestone: One Hundred Million Downloads

When the world began downloading the first freely available Landsat images on Oct. 1, 2008, a lot of people wondered just how much imagery would fly...

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Users Realize Significant Economic, Societal Benefits of Landsat

Users Realize Significant Economic, Societal Benefits of Landsat

What’s the value of data acquired from Landsat sensors when it comes to tracking toxic algal blooms in freshwater lakes? In monitoring vital habitat...

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Landsat, EROS Factor Heavily in New National Policy Plan for Earth Observation

Landsat, EROS Factor Heavily in New National Policy Plan for Earth Observation

The Landsat program and the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center have long held and important place in the nation’s Earth...

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Meet the USGS Landsat Project Scientist and Landsat Science Team Co-Chair

Meet the USGS Landsat Project Scientist and Landsat Science Team Co-Chair

Christopher “Chris” Crawford likes to say his roles with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) as a research physical scientist, the Landsat Project...

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Landsat, Collections Forum Updates Missions, Products, and Future Possibilities

Landsat, Collections Forum Updates Missions, Products, and Future Possibilities

EROS officials used a noon forum on Monday (Dec. 2) to provide high-level updates on multiple Landsat fronts—from progress on the building of Landsat...

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Global Study Finds Algal Blooms Intensifying in Freshwater Lakes Worldwide

Global Study Finds Algal Blooms Intensifying in Freshwater Lakes Worldwide

A study of global freshwater algal blooms funded in part by a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Landsat Science Team (LST) Award has found that harmful...

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International Cooperators Find Value, Collaboration in Joining Landsat Network

International Cooperators Find Value, Collaboration in Joining Landsat Network

Landsat’s eyes in the sky captured a riveting story of rebirth across Australia’s central deserts this past spring of 2019.

Floodwaters from...

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Indigenous Artwork Celebrates USGS, Geoscience Australia Landsat Partnership

Indigenous Artwork Celebrates USGS, Geoscience Australia Landsat Partnership

A multi-decade partnership between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Geoscience Australia (GA) to monitor Earth’s landscapes using Landsat...

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New Earth As Art Collection Now Available

New Earth As Art Collection Now Available

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center is proud to announce the 6th addition to Earth As Art.

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