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Landsat Archive Adds Its 10 Millionth Image

Landsat Archive Adds Its 10 Millionth Image

Since 1972, Landsat satellites have continually acquired data about the Earth’s land surface. On November 23, 2021, the Landsat Archive that stores...

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Landsat Science Team Virtual Meeting Held

Landsat Science Team Virtual Meeting Held

NASA and the USGS briefed the Landsat Science Team about Landsat 9 at their Fall Meeting held virtually on November 24, 2021.

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VP Harris Leads National Space Council Meeting, Adds Department of Interior to Council

VP Harris Leads National Space Council Meeting, Adds Department of Interior to Council

On Dec. 1, 2021, Vice President Kamala Harris convened the Biden-Harris Administration’s inaugural National Space Council meeting and laid out the...

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Pecora 22 Calls for Special Session Abstracts

Pecora 22 Calls for Special Session Abstracts

The 22nd William T. Pecora Memorial Remote Sensing Symposium (Pecora 22) will convene in Denver, Colorado, USA from October 23 – 28, 2022, and will...

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Underfly Positions Landsat 9 Below Landsat 8 for Simultaneous Scenes

Underfly Positions Landsat 9 Below Landsat 8 for Simultaneous Scenes

The newly launched Landsat 9 is experiencing a once-in-a-mission lifetime event where its orbit is directly below Landsat 8 for an “underfly.” For...

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First Images of Earth Taken by the Landsat 9 Satellite Released

First Images of Earth Taken by the Landsat 9 Satellite Released

Landsat 9, a joint mission from the Department of the Interior’s U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and NASA that launched Sept. 27, has collected its...

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USGS EROS Processes ‘First Light’ Images from Landsat 9

USGS EROS Processes ‘First Light’ Images from Landsat 9

The first images from the joint USGS-NASA Landsat 9 mission have been released, offering a preview of the high-quality Earth observation data that...

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ESPA now includes Landsat Collection 2 Normalized Difference Snow Index

ESPA now includes Landsat Collection 2 Normalized Difference Snow Index

A new science product easily separates snow from vegetation in processed Landsat Collection 2 scenes from 1982 to present.

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Landsat 9 Galleries: Launch Week

Landsat 9 Galleries: Launch Week

Santa Barbara County, CA, became a hub of Landsat activity in the last week of September 2021. That’s the week Landsat 9 launched into orbit on board...

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Landsat Update October 2021

Landsat Update October 2021

Landsat Updates are prepared periodically and distributed electronically to provide information about Landsat activities and related topics of...

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Reminder: Historic Prototype Viewers to be Decommissioned

Reminder: Historic Prototype Viewers to be Decommissioned

As reported on September 17, 2021, the USGS is retiring the original LandsatLook 1.0 (now LandLook) and Sentinel2Look viewers at the end of the work...

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Landsat 9 Power-Positive and Proceeding Smoothly Through On-Orbit Checkout

Landsat 9 Power-Positive and Proceeding Smoothly Through On-Orbit Checkout

Landsat 9 successfully launched on Monday, Sept 27, 2021 at 11:12 a.m. PDT and is now proceeding smoothly and accordingly through its scheduled on...

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