The Thermal Infrared Sensor on the newest Landsat provides insight into something invisible to human eyes: the temperature of the land surface.
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Thermal infrared imagery of the Southern California desert picks up the invisible water in the farmland around the Salton Sea.
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LDCM extends an unprecedented four-decade record of global land observations.
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NASA’s ECOSTRESS instrument observed extreme early morning temperatures in the desert of California and Nevada.
Atmosphere Heat Land Water Drought Remote Sensing Temperature Extremes
The island has been growing steadily since 2013.
Heat Land Volcanoes Remote Sensing
Ash and steam stream from a remote Japanese island.
Land Volcanoes
Researchers use ground and airborne instruments, as well as Landsat 7, to calibrate the imagery from the Landsat Data Continuity Mission.
Image of the Day Land Drought Unique Imagery Remote Sensing
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For five out of seven years studied, the Lut Desert in Iran sweltered like no other place on the planet.
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When the Landsat archive is combined with modern computing power, scientists can view the planet not just across space, but also time.
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