Mapping Tropical Forest Quality from Satellite Data
Researchers have created high resolution maps of tropical forest quality using remotely sensed data from NASA satellites.
Monitoring Lakes Using Remote Sensing Data
Satellite-based remote sensing is proving to be a useful tool to allow effective monitoring of lakes around the world.
New Report Values Economic Benefits of Landsat Archive at $3.45 billion
A newly released report from the USGS has estimated the 2017 domestic and international economic benefits of Landsat imagery to be $3.45 billion.
Mapping the Human Footprint
The world settlement footprint, created in a online application called Urban Thematic Exploration Platform (TEP) sponsored by the European Space Agency (ESA), is the first map that combines optical and radar satellites to create a human urban footprint map of the world.
Analyzing the Benefits of Green Space on Mental Health Using GIS
A study in Denmark combined historical Landsat satellite data and a survey to analyze the relationship between green space and mental health.
Mapping Land Cover by Stacking Landsat Imagery
Landsat 8 is offered as free, open data, which has led to new innovation in methods to better utilize such data for time series and complex scenes that are sometimes obstructed by clouds or dust.
This Tools Helps You Figure Out Which Satellite Bands to Use for Remote Sensing
The USGS offers the Landsat Spectral Characteristics Viewer which lets users view how different earth observation satellite instruments can be used for their remote sensing needs.
What are the Benefits of Landsat’s Current Free and Open Policy?
A group of researchers from different universities and government groups have published a study of how Landsat’s free and open data policy has benefitted users of the programs satellite imagery products.
“Adopt A Pixel” to Help Landsat Science
Adopt A Pixel program has existed for quite some time – from 2013 – in the form of a web service which allowed users to upload geospatially tagged landscape images to complement the remote sensing collections.
This New Tool from Sentinel Hub Lets You Create Time-lapse GIFs from Satellite Imagery
The latest upgrade of the EO Browser includes the ability to create an animated GIF from a time series of satellite images. This short tutorial shows you how to create your own time-lapse GIF.
An Algorithm to More Accurately Classify Land Cover Using Landsat Imagery
Hankui Zhang, from South Dakota State University, has developed a new classification technique that used a large number of images from MODIS, which has 500-meter resolution, and Landsat (30-meter) resolution together.
The USGS Landsat Analysis Ready Data (ARD) Program
Landsat data is available for download from EarthExplorer for the conterminous United States, Alaska, and Hawaii referenced using the WGS84 datum and provided as GeoTIFF data