By offering the ability to track wildfires, flooding, land use, infrastructure and urban development, satellite imagery fuels ...

Magma stirs deep below the surface of the Earth, building pressure until at last it erupts with terrible power. But suppose ...

Lush green forests may signal volcanic danger. Scientists now use satellite data to track tree health as an early warning for ...

Scientists have uncovered a promising new way to detect volcanic unrest by monitoring changes in vegetation near volcanoes, ...

Between that satellite and its near-identical predecessor, Landsat 8, the system gathers new imagery ... would “restructure” the Landsat Next mission “while NASA studies more affordable ...

Trump’s discretionary budget request for NASA would cut $1.1 billion in funding for Earth observation programs, including ...

A preliminary budget request from President Donald Trump takes aim at a satellite program with a 50-year history whose data ...

we’ll update this page with the most interesting quotes we hear about Landsat 8 (The Landsat Data Continuity Mission). The newest quotes will go on the top. When we’re inspired, we’ll talk back. “I’m ...

to see an Atlas 5 rocket blast Landsat 8 into space. Officially, the satellite is called the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) until it reaches orbit safely, but I’m going to call it Landsat 8 ...

Landsat 8 image of La Parguera Natural Reserve ... record of Earth's land surface," said Sandy Brown, vice president for Mission Solutions & Payloads for Raytheon. "With up to three times the ...

Brightness temperature data from the U.S. Landsat 8 mission. (ESA/USGS) As the image above shows, the thinner ice appears warmer since it is closer in temperature to open water, while thicker ...

For Landsat 8 and 9 there are 62 potential matchups for this study ... In absolute terms, this difference is 0.0071 which slightly exceeds the mission requirements of 0.0066 for the low reflectance.