In its five years in space, the Landsat 8 Earth-observing satellite has racked up some impressive statistics: 26,500 orbits around the planet, 1.1 million “scenes” captured, a motherlode of images ...

Discovered only about 50 years ago, Landsat Island off the country's Atlantic coast bears the name of the world's first Earth-observing satellite program. Landsat 1, launched in July 1972, was the ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Mapping technology giant ESRI has created a new Web-based tool to provide access to 30 years of global Landsat satellite imagery and enable users to identify changes in specific ...

The Global River Widths from Landsat (GRWL) Database contains over 58M measurements of planform river geometry. Line plot at right shows observed river coverage as a percentage of land area by ...

NASA’s Landsat satellites have consistently made history in Earth observation since the project’s first launch in 1972, with this year marking 50 years of innovation and science. Its influence may ...

For over 50 years, the Landsat program has provided the longest continuous satellite record of Earth’s land surface from space. Landsat 9, launched in 2021, is the latest mission in this remarkable ...

Twelve years of global deforestation, wildfires, windstorms, insect infestations and more are captured in a new set of forest disturbance maps created from billions of pixels acquired by the Landsat 7 ...

Emptying into the Arctic Ocean, the 2,800-mile-long Lena River in Siberia forms one of the world’s largest deltas. USGS From volcanoes to urban sprawl, crop yields to glaciers, Landsat images have for ...