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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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EROS Workshop Offers First Look at Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection Products

EROS Workshop Offers First Look at Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection Products

The mapping and classification of land use and land cover has long been a primary duty for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and remotely-sensed data...

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Brazilians Work with EROS Staff to Map, Monitor Agricultural Irrigation

Brazilians Work with EROS Staff to Map, Monitor Agricultural Irrigation

Brazilian officials tasked with managing their country’s water resources are working with staff at the Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS)...

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USGS Burned Area Products Group in Denver Touts Value of Landsat ARD

USGS Burned Area Products Group in Denver Touts Value of Landsat ARD

For all the great Federal records and remotely sensed products out there that have documented fires across the United States through the decades, it...

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NASA’s AppEEARS Data Extraction Tool Adds USGS Datasets

NASA’s AppEEARS Data Extraction Tool Adds USGS Datasets

A powerful data extraction tool that intuitively streamlines and simplifies the exploration of more than 100 datasets within NASA’s Earth Observing...

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Newman Offers Wide-Ranging Look at Potential Future of Landsat

Newman Offers Wide-Ranging Look at Potential Future of Landsat

When it comes to the business of acquiring remotely sensed data, of preserving that data and providing a portal to it, National Land Imaging Program...

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Review Panels Ensure USGS, NASA Don’t Pay ‘the Price of Failure’ with Landsat 9

Review Panels Ensure USGS, NASA Don’t Pay ‘the Price of Failure’ with Landsat 9

Agencies like NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) that commit multiple millions of dollars to put Landsat satellites into space need to know...

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USGS, AmericaView Connection Proves Valuable with Hurricane Florence

USGS, AmericaView Connection Proves Valuable with Hurricane Florence

In the days of Hurricane Florence, when the winds blew, the rains fell, the ocean surged, and the rivers overflowed, the U.S Geological Survey (USGS)...

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EROS Leads Dialogue on Future of Earth Observation

EROS Leads Dialogue on Future of Earth Observation

Forty-six years ago, there was a single Earth observation satellite circling the globe – Landsat 1.

By 1988, four countries operated such satellites...

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Landsat 9 Ground System Meets Design Criteria to Move Forward

Landsat 9 Ground System Meets Design Criteria to Move Forward

Tim Rykowski has a history of reviewing satellite ground systems. NASA’s Space Network Systems Manager, Rykowski figures he’s probably sat in on a few...

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ClimateEngine.org Helps Assess Effectiveness of Riparian Restoration Projects

ClimateEngine.org Helps Assess Effectiveness of Riparian Restoration Projects

Assessments of restoration effectiveness in riparian areas depend on quality monitoring data, which can be both expensive and difficult to collect. 

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USGS and NASA Select New Landsat Science Team

USGS and NASA Select New Landsat Science Team

The USGS and NASA have selected the scientists and engineers who will serve on the next Landsat Science Team. 

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Significant Milestone in Improving Usability of Landsat Satellite Data

Significant Milestone in Improving Usability of Landsat Satellite Data

Improvements to the quality and usability of Landsat satellite data have been made with the release of a new USGS product called Landsat Analysis...

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