Images

This image of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula was captured by the Multispectral Scanner (MSS) instrument onboard the Landsat 5 satellite on January 7, 2013.

Remote Sensing Activities Report front cover graphic for report.

The Multispectral Scanner (MSS) on board Landsat 5 satellite captured imagery of the southern Louisiana coastline on April 10, 2012, after the sensor was turned back on after being off for nearly a dozen years. This image is a portion of the scene from WRS-2 Path 23 Row 40. The MSS sensor collected nearly 15,000 scenes from 2012 to January 7, 2013. 

This Landsat imagery was taken on June 7, 2011. Path/Row: 35/36 and 37 Lat/Long: 33.820/-109.330

The roughly west-east trail of destruction from the April 27, 2011, Tuscaloosa-Birmingham tornado is clearly visible in these Landsat images. This was one of 358 recorded tornadoes during the April 25-28, 2011, tornado outbreak, the most severe in U.S. history.

Example of the Landsat Collection 2 Fractional Snow Covered Area (fSCA) Science Product showing an area in the Dixie National Forest in Utah on February 28, 2021 for tile h007V010. Left: Landsat Collection 2 U.S. Analysis Ready Data Surface Reflectance image, Middle: fSCA, and Right: Canopy Adjusted fSCA.

Illustration of the OLI Instrument.

Study of biological cycles.

Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper (TM) Collection 2 sample data example

Bands 5,4,3

Remnants of a spruce forest complex following a severe wildfire in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska. Wildfires are the dominant landscape-scale disturbance operating at annual time scales in Alaska, and fires play a major role in the rate and extent of vegetation growth and productivity of a site.

On April 20, 2010, an explosion at an oil well in the Gulf of Mexico resulted in a major oil spill. Since then, emergency response efforts have been underway to contain the growing oil slick before it reaches the southern coast of the United States. Landsat imagery, acquired by the U.S. Geological Survey on May 1 shows the extent of the oil slick.

On April 20, 2010, an explosion at an oil well in the Gulf of Mexico resulted in a major oil spill. Since then, emergency response efforts have been underway to contain the growing oil slick before it reaches the southern coast of the United States. Landsat imagery, acquired by the U.S. Geological Survey on May 1 shows the extent of the oil slick.

Satellite image from Landsat 7 which was used to track Antarctica's emperor penguins.

Image of the Chesapeake Bay taken from Landsat satellite data.

Landsat 5 image of the Mt. Redoubt area on March 26, 2009 at 1:07 PM AKDT. The false color image shows the large brown ash cloud extending over the Cook Inlet and the western Kenai peninsula (right sid of image). The image also shows a whiter steam and gas plume rising from the summit of Redoubt Volcano (near upper center).

On March 1, 2009, Landsat 5 acquired a clear image of the Mt. Redoubt region in Alaska. 

Kingston Flood

At approximately 1:00a.m. on December 22, 2008, an earthen dam holding a containment pond at the Kingston, Tennessee Fossil Plant gave way, releasing over 500 million gallons of ash and sludge.

On May 4, 2008, the Nargis cyclone hit the country of Burma (Myanmar) causing devastation to Rangoon (Yangon), the capital of Burma, and the surrounding area. 

The Georgia Fire consisted of two fires, the Sweat Farm Road fire and the Big Turnaround fire. The fires were located 10 miles (16 kilometers) southwest of Waycross, Georgia, and were separated by Swamp Road.

These images show the nearly 11,000 acres affected by the Sierra fire in Orange County, California, in February 2006.

These Landsat images show the damage that New Orleans, Louisiana, received as a result of Hurricane Katrina.