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NASA, USGS Begin Work on Landsat 9 for Land Imaging
NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey have started work on Landsat 9, an upgraded rebuild of the Landsat 8 spacecraft launched in 2013, to extend the Landsat program’s decades-long observations of...
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USGS Provides Higher Level Landsat Data
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has begun production of higher level (more highly processed) Landsat data products to help advance land surface change studies. One such product is Landsat...
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European Space Agency Launches Land Observing Satellite
The European Space Agency (ESA) on June 23 successfully launched its Sentinel-2A satellite, the second satellite to be launched in Europe’s Copernicus environment monitoring program. Above is a video...
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GeoSage enhances software to analyze Landsat-8 imagery
GeoSage’s software tool, Spectral Transformer for Landsat-8 Imagery, has been enhanced to include new functions towards automated image feature extraction. The changes are built upon the existing...
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USGS partners with European Space Agency on Copernicus Earth data
The Sentinel satellites developed by ESA are designed to meet the operational needs of the Copernicus program. (ESA illustration) The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the European Space Agency (ESA)...
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Sentinel imagery now works inside ArcGIS
Esri has enhanced its ArcGIS technology to simplify the use of free global imagery from the Sentinel-2 satellite launched by the European Space Agency. ArcGIS supports visualization, interpretation,...
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Free Landsat Viewer brings Earth into focus
A free web tool has been launched for browsing satellite imagery from Landsat 8 — the Landsat Viewer. The tool was created by the start-up company Eos Data Analytics. EOS Data Analytics is an automatic...
View ArticleUSGS proposed budget focuses on core science and efficiency
President Donald Trump has proposed a $922.2 million Fiscal Year 2018 (FY18) budget for the U.S. Geological Survey. The proposed FY18 request reflects a savings of $137.8 million in appropriated funds...
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