Landsat 8 takes a look at Princess Charlotte Bay, Australia, where reefs, river plumes, and sandy islands test the satellite's ability to observe the intersection of land and sea.
Published Jun 16, 2013
A composite view of the United States represents one of the ways scientists are exploring Landsat 8’s capabilities.
Published Feb 11, 2014
50 trillion pixels of Landsat data give researchers a lot of opportunities to look at Earth processes on scales from days to decades.
Published Apr 16, 2015
What does Landsat have in common with the Gutenberg Bible, Tolstoy’s personal library, and the Book of Kells?
Published Nov 24, 2011
LDCM extends an unprecedented four-decade record of global land observations.
Published Feb 12, 2013
When the Landsat archive is combined with modern computing power, scientists can view the planet not just across space, but also time.
Published Jun 11, 2013Image of the Day Land Unique Imagery Human Presence Remote Sensing
Like an interesting novel, Landsat 8 provides a good read for a day along the shore.
Published Aug 22, 2014
Being able to see traces of human history in satellite imagery is dependent on what details can be resolved on a given image. There are four main types of image resolution.
Published Oct 4, 2017
A new remote sensing technique could make it easier to map seafloor channels in coastal areas.
Published Aug 15, 2015
By analyzing satellite images of sediments, coastal researchers and cartographers can identify potential shallows, shoals, and shipping hazards.
Published Sep 17, 2015
Finding promising aquaculture sites can be a challenge. Now seafood farmers may be getting some help from above.
Published Aug 25, 2017
The lake between Israel and Jordan provides a bounty of salt and of history.
Published Apr 6, 2012
This natural color image of Sandy Neck and Barnstable Harbor, on the north side of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, was acquired on November 4, 2005, by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s EO-1 satellite.
Published Feb 19, 2011
False-color satellite imagery offers insight that goes beyond what the human eye can see.
Published Mar 6, 2016
With Landsat 5 and 7 data, scientists can identify areas comprised of sedimentary rocks where vegetation is sparse—requirements for good fossil sites.
Published May 16, 2000
Earth science satellites are designed to study our home planet’s surface and atmosphere, but occasionally they capture views of other objects in low-Earth orbit such as satellites, the International Space Station, and rocket debris.
Published Jun 29, 2016
This Red Sea resort town in northern Egypt has dramatically reshaped the coastline.
Published Aug 19, 2015
This image of the Dallas metro area was the very first image in the archives of the Landsat mission, launched in 1972.
Published Jul 23, 2012
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