The first of the Landsat series of satellites was launched by the U.S. Department of the Interior in 1972. The program was a direct outgrowth of the use of hand-held Hasselblad cameras by the ...

The NASA Earth Observatory has released a series of images taken with the Operational Land Imager (OLI) and OLI-2 instruments on the Landsat 8 and 9 satellites, in which you can see the birth and ...

Since the 70s, NASA, NOAA, and the USGS have been operating a series of satellites designed to look at vegetation health around the world. These satellites, going under the name Landsat ...

The data was collected by a series of satellites called the Landsat satellites and reveals many of these once-frigid places are growing greener. Video courtesy of NASA Follow BI Video: On Twitter ...

Key satellites—Landsat, MODIS, and Sentinel—stand out for their pivotal roles in driving climate action (SDG 13) and conserving biodiversity (SDG 15). The findings reveal an impressive surge ...

How do you measure a giant phenomenon like Arctic ice melt? The joint NASA/US Geological Survey Landsat satellites are helping scientists study this problem from space. A new study documents ...

Sentinel and Gaofen satellites have seen remarkable growth in demand, with Sentinel surpassing MODIS in recent years. Meanwhile, Landsat and MODIS continue to be cornerstones for environmental ...

The OLI (Operational Land Imager) and OLI-2 on the Landsat 8 and 9 satellites captured images showing the island emerge and shrink about 25 km (15 miles) off the eastern coast of Azerbaijan.