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Below you'll find the most recent news about Landsat and USGS. Please contact Michelle Bouchard at mbouchard@usgs.gov for assistance with specific media questions and requests.

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STAC Metadata Release Includes Improved Geometric Accuracy Standards, Records Management

STAC Metadata Release Includes Improved Geometric Accuracy Standards, Records Management

All Landsat Collection 2 data stored in the Amazon Web Service (AWS) cloud platform include SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) metadata. A recent...

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Fifty Years of Landsat: Observing Global Forests from above the Canopy

Fifty Years of Landsat: Observing Global Forests from above the Canopy

Around the world, forests provide timber and other wood products, fuel, flood control, biological diversity, recreation, carbon storage and much more...

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Reprocessed Landsat 9 Data Acquired from June 20-21, 2022

Reprocessed Landsat 9 Data Acquired from June 20-21, 2022

The Landsat Calibration and Validation Team identified 130 Landsat 9 scenes acquired from June 20-21, 2022, over a period of nine hours, that were...

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New and Improved Bulk Data Download Application Available

New and Improved Bulk Data Download Application Available

An improved way to download large quantities of Landsat and other data from the USGS EROS archive is now available.

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Upcoming Maintenance to Interrupt Landsat Data Processing and Distribution

Upcoming Maintenance to Interrupt Landsat Data Processing and Distribution

Maintenance planned for Saturday, July 16, 2022, will cause an extended interruption of Landsat data processing and data distribution portals.  To...

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Fifty Years of Landsat: Sharing Earth information for the benefit of all

Fifty Years of Landsat: Sharing Earth information for the benefit of all

In 2022, the Landsat series of satellites, a program conducted jointly by the U.S. Geological Survey and NASA, celebrates a half century of worldwide...

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Quarterly Reports Contain Latest Landsat Calibration/Validation Information

Quarterly Reports Contain Latest Landsat Calibration/Validation Information

The USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Calibration and Validation (Cal/Val) Center of Excellence (ECCOE) focuses on improving the...

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Missed Imaging Opportunity for Landsat 8

Missed Imaging Opportunity for Landsat 8

On June 14, 2022 (DOY165), Landsat 8 missed imaging opportunities due to an issue with the payload scheduling software. The issue was quickly...

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Newly Updated EarthNow! Landsat Image Viewer Includes Landsat 9

Newly Updated EarthNow! Landsat Image Viewer Includes Landsat 9

The EarthNow! Landsat Image Viewer displays near-real time imagery created from data acquired by Landsat satellites as they cross over the Earth...

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Upcoming Interruption to Landsat Collection 2 Data Access

Upcoming Interruption to Landsat Collection 2 Data Access

Access to Landsat Collection 2 Level-1 and Level-2 data via USGS data access portals will be unavailable on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, for inventory...

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Select Landsat Collection 2 Level-1 Data Reprocessed

Select Landsat Collection 2 Level-1 Data Reprocessed

Select Landsat Collection 2 Level-1 data from 1984 to 2020 were reprocessed on June 2, 2022, due to an intermittent issue that did not allow them to...

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