Spend time in a city in summer and you can feel the urban heat rising from the pavement and radiating from buildings. Cities are generally hotter than surrounding rural areas, but even within cities, ...

Agriculture places a heavy demand on declining water supplies. Yet each year, over-irrigation wastes huge amounts of water. Farmers in Bangladesh — like so many places around the world — face ...

Google is mining photos from a satellite launched in 2013 to create a better, cloud-free image of Earth from above. The newest mosaic is an updated version of one produced in 2013. The new version was ...

Industry concerns that the U.S. government indecision about the future of the Landsat program will lead to a long gap in the delivery of low-resolution scientific remote sensing data escalated at the ...

A Nevada lithium project central to US efforts to secure domestic mineral supply is leaning on a half-century-old satellite program for modern answers. The US Geological Survey’s (USGS) Landsat ...

The Landsat Program comprises a series of Earth-observing satellite missions of, thus far, six satellites. The Program is jointly managed by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) and the Department ...

Rochester Institute of Technology researchers have won funding from the U.S. Geological Survey to ensure accurate temperature data from NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite. Climate researchers depend on public ...

images of the Earth, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has assumed complete mission operations responsibility for Landsat 7 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Assumption of ...

By USGS Landsat MissionsThe U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with NASA, has named the new Landsat Science Team that ...

The U.S. Geological Survey has taken over operations of the Landsat 7 imaging satellite from NASA, consolidating a program that provides researchers with detailed pictures of Earth and other data.

Assistant Professor of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Connecticut Landsat is one of the most important U.S. satellite systems. Since the program’s launch in 1972, Landsat ...