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Improved global topographic (elevation) data are now publicly available for most of Asia (India, China, southern Siberia, Japan, Indonesia), Oceania...

A pioneer in mapping global land cover change and the team behind the United States’ most advanced land surface mapping satellite have both been...

When it comes to helping communities across the US stay up-to-date on their flood risk, the Landsat satellite can take a bow.

The Department of the Interior has released its remote sensing activities report. 

USGS scientists used Landsat data to determine that forests, wetlands and farms in the eastern U.S. naturally store 300 million tons of carbon a year...

What controls the response of photosynthesis in Amazon tropical forests to seasonal variations in climate?

What are Climate Data Records and Terrestrial Essential Climate Variables?

A new study based on Landsat Earth-observing satellite data comprehensively describes changes in the world's forests from the beginning of this...

What is the coldest place on Earth? It is a high ridge in Antarctica on the East Antarctic Plateau where temperatures in several hollows can dip below...

Landsat satellites provide decision makers with key information about the world's food, forests, water and how these and other land resources are...