For more than half a century, satellites have been circling Earth, photographing forests, coastlines, farmlands, and cities with a consistency and precision that no other space program has matched.

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 ...

1. Seattle, Washington, in false color using TM/ETM+ data (Landsat 7). From C. Small, 2006, Urban Landsat: Cities from Space, NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications ...

SAN ANTONIO —June 17, 2026— SwRI is developing electronics and flight software for the NASA/U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Landsat 10 satellite that is set to launch in 2031 to collect new and improved ...

NASA transferred ownership and operational control on Thursday of the Landsat 9 satellite to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in a ceremony in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Landsat 9 is the most recent ...

(Washington, DC) Today U.S. Rep. Mark Udall (D-CO), Chairman of the House Committee on Science and Technology’s Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, introduced a bipartisan House resolution to ...

On a warm July day in 1972, NASA launched a new Earth-imaging satellite called the Earth Resources Technology Satellite. "ERTS" was the first satellite of what later became NASA and the U.S.

Continuity Mission Satellite (LDCM) satellite. Upon its launch from California in early 2013, LDCM will be known as Landsat 8 and will continue the NASA and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth ...

Two Rochester Institute of Technology scientists were recognized by the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation as some of the tradecraft’s brightest minds for their work on the Landsat 8 satellite.

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 ...

A sustained land imaging program pays close attention not only to data acquisition, but equally to data management, data products, and data availability. Satellite data, which were once largely ...