Matt Hansen talks about the value of Landsat data as an infrastructure for research and innovation.
Landsat In Action
The Landsat Program provides over 40 years of calibrated medium spatial resolution data in support of a range of applications in areas such as global change research, agriculture, forestry, geology, land cover mapping, resource management, and water and coastal studies.
This page contains examples of regional and global Landsat data applications that can assist policy makers and land managers in making informative decisions about our environment and Earth's natural resources.
![The glacier positions on this NPS map of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska, were updated based on recent Landsat images.](https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/styles/side_image/public/thumbnails/image/20180508_Wrangell_mts_lg.png?itok=9mHOYOEN)
National Park Service Cartographer Tom Patterson Talks Landsat
![Corn and Soybean Map Using Landsat](https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/styles/side_image/public/thumbnails/image/Guan-cropdata-LIA_0.jpg?itok=Ovw_p3zM)
Satellites, supercomputers, and machine learning provide real-time crop type data
![Screenshot of the Satellite Forest Monitoring in Canada interface](https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/styles/side_image/public/thumbnails/image/canadaforestchange.png?itok=ncXe2rsW)
Landsat Data Valuable in the Assessment of Forest Change in Canada
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Google Powers Platform for Earth Science Data and Analysis
![Composited Tasseled Cap brightness, greenness, and wetness image of the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia](https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/styles/side_image/public/thumbnails/image/llr_tm_bgw_bale_mountains.png?itok=Ug5b5oON)
LandsatLinkr - Harmonizing the Landsat Archive
![Geospatial Data Analysis in-season crop type map for the United States](https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/styles/side_image/public/thumbnails/image/GDA-3.png?itok=6JMLsHhA)
Landsat Provides Near Real-Time Global Agricultural Analysis
Landsat Maps Global Surface Water and its Long-Term Changes
Landsat 8 Tracks the Velocity of Glaciers and Ice Sheets in Near Real-Time
![Global Forest Watch Interface screenshot](https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/styles/side_image/public/thumbnails/image/LIA-global-forest-watch.jpg?itok=J0Y2t-1P)
Monitoring the World's Forests
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Alan Belward from the European Union's Joint Research Center discusses how Landsat helps his team promote sustainable development.
Alan Belward from the European Union's Joint Research Center discusses how Landsat helps his team promote sustainable development.
Urban planners and urban geographers turn to Landsat for answers
Landsat plays a key role in reducing hunger on earth
Landsat helps bolster food security
Landsat brings understanding to the impact of industrialization
When wildfire damage threatens humans, Landsat provides answers
Landsat—The watchman that never sleeps
Mapping water use—Landsat and water resources in the United States
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Alan Belward from the European Union's Joint Research Center discusses how Landsat helps his team promote sustainable development.