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December 2023 - January 2024

Landsat Science News

December 14, 2023

ExtraDimensional - The Fusion of Landsat and GEDI Data

When the decades-long Landsat archive is combined with data from other instruments, it can provide amazing insights into how the Earth is changing. Landsat and GEDI data are being harnessed to help us better understand the complex relationships between humanity and nature.

January 17, 2024

Satellites Show More Greenland Ice Lost Than Previously Estimated

Source: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

An analysis of satellite data conducted by Green et al., 2024 found that the majority of glaciers in Greenland have retreated significantly between 1985 and 2022.

January 5, 2024

USGS Director Talks Landsat

Source: U.S. Geological Survey

In an Instagram Live event titled "Guided by Science," Deb Haaland, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, spoke with the USGS Director Dr. David Applegate about Landsat.

December 29, 2023

Advancing Landsat Science at AGU

The 2023 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (AGU23) was held in San Francisco, California, from December 11-15. Landsat data occupied a prominent position among presenters at AGU23.

December 21, 2023

Landsat 2030 International Partnership Initiative Announced

Source: U.S. Department of the Interior

The Landsat 2030 International Partnership Initiative will enhance U.S. and partner governments’ ability to sustainably manage their land and natural resources.

December 21, 2023

Landsat Helps Prioritize Conservation Areas for Australia's Gliding Possums

Using remotely-sensed data, including Landsat, Griffith University researchers (Norman and Mackey, 2023) found that less than 13 percent of the endangered greater gliders’ habitat in Queensland is protected.

December 19, 2023

The Earth Observer Shar es Landsat Happenings

The September-October issue of The Earth Observer summarized the final activities of the 2018–2023 Landsat Science Team and the 2022 History of NASA and the Environment Symposium.

"Landsat data has proved invaluable for much of the work we do to try and comprehend how Earth's cryosphere is responding to a warming planet and to infer what those results mean for our collective future."

— Alex Gardner, NASA JPL Research Scientist

January 19, 2024

“There is no more powerful tool for tacking land change through time than the Landsat series of satellites.”

— David Applegate, USGS Director

January 5, 2024

“As the impacts of the climate crisis intensify in the United States and across the globe, Landsat satellites are crucial to providing data and imagery to help make science-based decisions on key issues including water use, wildfire impacts, coral reef degradation, glacier and ice-shelf retreat, and tropical deforestation.”

— David Applegate, USGS Director

December 20, 2023

NASA Earth Observatory

Select Landsat Images

January 29, 2024

Retreat at Klinaklini

Features in this northern British Columbia volcanic area draw their names from a few of our favorite wintry things.

January 18, 2024

Shrinking Alfotbreen

Features in this northern British Columbia volcanic area draw their names from a few of our favorite wintry things.

January 8, 2024

Rusting Rivers

Researchers suspect that thawing permafrost is the cause of dozens of Alaskan streams turning orange. Tukpahlearik Creak is one such stream that has taken on a new hue.

December 28, 2023

Snowshoe Lava Field

Features in this northern British Columbia volcanic area draw their names from a few of our favorite wintry things.

December 19, 2023

Frosty the Volcano

The Alaskan stratovolcano has not come to life in thousands of years.

December 4, 2023

Unrest at Anak Krakatau

The small, unimposing volcano between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra has a destructive past.

Publication Spotlight

Need and Vision for Global Medium-Resolution Landsat and Sentinel-2 Data Products (Radeloff et al., 2024)

Excerpt: The current constellation of multiple Landsat and Sentinel-2 satellites affords an opportunity for the generation of global medium-resolution products every few days. The goal is to both identify the information needs and provide direction towards the generation of a suite of global high-level, systematically-generated, medium-resolution products designed for both management and science.