Images

The Okavango Delta in Botswana, one of the world’s great inland waterways, is an UNESCO World Heritage Site as well as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa.  

The USGS Landsat International Cooperator Network met for the Landsat Technical Working Group (LTWG) #32 meeting in Orlando, Florida USA during the first week of February.

Here is an illustration of the 14 receiving stations that make up the Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 USGS Ground Networks. Learn more about the International Ground Station (IGS) Network here.

Landsat 7 Image of the Southern Fringe of the Rub' al-Khali Sand Desert near Al-Hashman, Oman. This gap-filled image was captured on January 18, 2024 and is shown using the shortwave infrared, near infrared and red bands (Bands 5|4|3).

To learn more about the Landsat Program visit www.usgs.gov/landsat

This image, displaying a small area of the Sea of Okhotsk shoreline, is one of over 4,000 Landsat 8 Level-1 scenes that were acquired between January 1 and January 6, 2024, and reprocessed on January 12, 2024 with an updated Calibration Parameter file.

This image of the Van Diemen Gulf was acquired by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) onboard the Landsat 8 satellite on November 18, 2023.

Natural color image of the White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire, as seen by Landsat 9 on October 4th, 2023.

WRS-2 Path 013 Row 029.

Bands 4,3,2

Landsat Scene ID LC09_L2SP_013029_20231004_20231005_02_T1

This image shows the Landsat Flight Operations Team.

This image shows the Landsat flight Operations Team monitoring a pre burn contact, ensuring the satellite is ready for the maneuver.

This image shows the Landsat Flight Operations Team monitoring the maneuver in real time.  

Landsat 9 captured this image of Snæfellsjökull, a glacier-capped volcano that sits at the tip of the Snæfellsnes Peninsula in west Iceland on August 9, 2023. 

WRS-2 Path 222 Row 214

Bands 6,5,4

To learn more about Landsat, visit https://www.usgs.gov/landsat-missions. 

Landsat 8's Operational Land Imager (OLI) captured this image of the Mississippi River Delta on September 18, 2023. 

Landsat 8

Path 21 Row

September 18, 2023

Bands 6,5,4

An example of a Landsat 9 image of the Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire April 13th, 2023. Path:013/Row: 30. Natural Color (4,3,2). 

Visit the Landsat Missions Web Site to learn more about Landsat missions and products.

An Example of the Aral Sea as seen by a Landsat 5 composite in October 1992 (left) and as seen by a Landsat 8 composite in September 2020 (right). Path:160, 161 and 162/Row: 28 and 29. Natural Color Landsat 5: (3,2,1), Landsat 8:(4,3,2). 

This photo of the LGSOWG 51 attendees was taken at the Norwegian ground station in Svalbard in August 2023.

To learn more about the meeting, visit this News page.

This Landsat 8 image, acquired June 11, 2023, gives a view Hawaii's state capital Honolulu and the surrounding area along the eastern shoreline of O'ahu. Center in this image is the Daniel K.

This photo was taken at the satellite ground receiving station in Svalbard, Norway during Landsat Ground Station Operators Working Group 51st meeting. 

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The USGS EROS Landsat Satellites Data System's (LSDS) Science Research and Development (LSRD) transforms Landsat data into value-added science, offering Landsat Science Products for advanced analysis of water, fire, and snow. 

The EROS Calibration/Validation (Cal/Val) Center of Excellence (ECCOE) compares Landsat and other remotely sensed data to known reference points on the ground to ensure consistency - a process called calibration and validation.

Landsat Next, planned for launch in late 2030/early 2031, will be a constellation of three identical satellites that together will view the Earth's surface more frequently and provide more detail about its surface. 

Attendees of the Landsat Ground Station Operators Working Group (LGSOWG) #51 meeting in Tromso, Norway.

Visit this News page to learn more about the LGSOWG 51 meeting.