The Landsat program has revolutionized how we view the Earth during its forty continuous years of operation. The reams of data generated by seven generations of satellites has helped govern both ...

For more than half a century, satellites have been circling Earth, photographing forests, coastlines, farmlands, and cities with a consistency and precision that no other space program has matched.

Artist's concept of the Landsat 8 satellite NASA launched in February 2013. Credit: Orbital ATK WASHINGTON — Senate appropriators already skeptical of NASA’s plan to explore hosted payload and ...

Landsat images acquired in 1992 and 2012 (top and bottom, respectively) show the transformation of China’s Binhai New Area from salt farms, reed marshes and wasteland to one of China’s key economic ...

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 ...

The American sage Yogi Berra once said: "You can see a lot by just looking." The Landsat program is the longest continuous global record of Earth observations from space – ever. Since its first ...

The USGS has released a new satellite portrait of the nation that highlights how dramatically the American landscape has ...

Remote sensing experts from Rochester Institute of Technology are using innovative approaches to help scientists in government and the private sector monitor changes in the Earth’s surface temperature ...

On a warm July day in 1972, NASA launched a new Earth-imaging satellite called the Earth Resources Technology Satellite. "ERTS" was the first satellite of what later became NASA and the U.S.

NASA's Landsat program recently turned the big four-oh, and what better way to deal with the mid-life crisis by getting a new satellite as a present? Accordingly, the space agency has just launched ...

For the past 40 years, NASA’s Landsat Program has provided a continuous global record of the Earth’s surface—the longest such record ever. The satellites have provided an unmatched, breathtaking view ...

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 ...