Images

This Landsat 9 image displaying the coastline of Northeastern Queensland, Australia and the Cumberland Islands was acquired on July 1, and reprocessed on July 12, 2023. 

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Product ID: LC09_L1TP_093074_20230701_20230712_02_T1

This is the thumbnail for the Image of the Week about Fires in Canada. Find more IOWs here: https://eros.usgs.gov/media-gallery/image-of-the-week.

The Apostle Islands National Lakeshore encompasses 69,372 acres, of which 27,323 acres are submerged lands in Lake Superior. This unique collection of islands became a designated National Lakeshore on September 26, 1970. There are no roads or vehicle access to any of the 21 islands within the National Lakeshore.

Cape Cod, the hook-shaped peninsula in the state of Massachusetts, is a popular summertime destination and is easily visible in satellite imagery. 

In this Landsat 9 image, the urban sprawl of Providence, Rhode Island is also displayed, along with Block Island south of the mainland, and Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket south of the Cape. 

A screen capture of the STAC (Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog) compliant API (Application Programming Interface) developed by USGS Astrogeology for analysis ready data.

The three active Landsat satellites captured imagery of fires burning in an area of the Alberta province, Canada, in May of 2023. 

This animation displays mosaics of the imagery acquired by Landsat 9’s Operational Land Imager (OLI) on May 13th, Landsat 8’s OLI on May 14th, and Landsat 7’s Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) on May 16th. 

Image of Collection 2 Landsat 9 Level-3 DSWE near the North Carolina shoreline captured November 14th, 2021. This image displays a portion of ARD tile H021V010.

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Found along the Pacific Ring of Fire, Russia’s Shiveluch Volcano began erupting on April 11, 2023. Huge ash clouds spewed from the main crater blanketing over 40,000 square miles (108,000 square kilometers).  The tiny village of Klyuchi, about 30 mi (50 km) from the volcano, plunged into darkness.

Landsat 9 image showing Washington D.C. on April 9, 2023. The image is shown using the Red, Green and Blue bands (Bands 4,3,2), combining these three bands produces a natural color view of the area. The image was then sharpened using the panchromatic band (Band 8) which has a higher resolution than the other bands (15 meters compared to 30 meters).

This is a false color image of Lake Tahoe, California. These images were created from data acquired by Landsat 8 on February 13, 2022 (Path 43, Row 33).

This is the fractional snow cover data for a Landsat picture of Lake Tahoe. Data is from February 13, 2022 on US ARD Tile Path 003 Row 008.

This is the thumbnail image for an Image of the Week about a 2023 update of the Brunt Ice Shelf event. 

Children play with 12’x12′ interactive floor puzzle of the Navajo Nation, created from Landsat satellite imagery by Earth observation education partner, AmericaView  during the Nihima Nahasdzáán−The Art of Mother Earth Gallery Event.

This satellite image of the Seattle, Tacoma Washington area was acquired by the Landsat 1 Multispectral Scanner (MSS) on September 16, 1973. 

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Visit the Landsat Missions Web Site to learn more about the Landsat satellites that have been acquiring data of the Earth since 1972. 

A Landsat Surface Reflectance (SR) Normalized Difference Index (NDVI) map of the San Joaquin Valley region of California on March 13, 2023.

Example of the Landsat 9 Collection 2 Dynamic Surface Water Extent (DSWE) science product showing the Everglades National Park in Florida acquired March 8, 2023, for tile CU H027V019. Left: Landsat Collection 2 U.S. Analysis Ready Data Surface Reflectance image.  Right: DSWE Interpreted Layer (INTR) layer.

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The Richat Structure, also known as the Eye of the Sahara, is a prominent circular geological formation in the Sahara Desert. The formation stretches across a 40 km-wide region in Mauritania in Northwest Africa.

This mosaic of the Richat Structure and surrounding area was creating using four natural color Landsat 9 images (Bands 4,3,2):