In May, about 30 miles from the ominously named town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, a conflagration began. Known as the Black Fire, it soon blew up, growing explosively and consuming huge ...

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 ...

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 ...

A sustained land imaging program pays close attention not only to data acquisition, but equally to data management, data products, and data availability. Satellite data, which were once largely ...

Landsat 5 successfully set the new Guinness World Records title for ‘Longest-operating Earth observation satellite’ as stated in an e-mail from Guinness World Records sent to NASA Goddard Space Flight ...

REDLANDS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Esri, the global leader in mapping and location intelligence, announces the launch of Landsat Explorer, a groundbreaking online app that makes it easier than ever ...

The Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) reached a major milestone last week when it successfully completed its Mission Critical Design Review (CDR). From May 25-27, an independent review board ...

This follow-on effort leverages and improves upon previous methodologies developed at RIT to ensure proper calibration of Landsat's active thermal sensors and validation of the archived higher-level ...

RIT researchers have been a partner with Landsat projects for decades, and a group is now helping the program prepare for its next iteration with Landsat Next. Landsat is a NASA/USGS program that ...

Over the coming decades the United States and the world face growing challenges related to an increasing population, rising demand for natural resources, concerns about food security, and a changing ...