{ "count": 74, "next": null, "previous": null, "results": [ { "id": 14086, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14086/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-02-10T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "Landsat 9 Data Release", "description": "The data from Landsat 9 is available for anyone to download from the USGS data archive. Launched on Sept. 27, 2021, the new satellite and its instruments went through testing and calibration by the mission team. Now, with both Landsat 9 and Landsat 8 in orbit, there will be high-quality, medium-resolution images of Earth’s landscapes and coastal regions every eight days.Music: Amazing Discoveries by Damien Deshayes [SACEM], published by KTSA Publishing [SACEM] available from Universal Production Music; The Troubleshooter by Anders Johan Greger Lewen [STIM], published by Primetime Productions, Ltd [PRS]; Bright Patterns by Gregg Lehrman [ASCAP] and John Christopher Nye [ASCAP], published by Soundcast Music [SESAC]Complete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || 14086_Landsat9_data-print.jpg (1920x1080) [626.5 KB] || 14086_Landsat9_data-print_searchweb.png (320x180) [53.8 KB] || 14086_Landsat9_data-print_thm.png (80x40) [4.7 KB] || 14086_Landsat9_data_MASTER-pr.mov (1920x1080) [3.1 GB] || 14086_Landsat9_data-yt.mp4 (1920x1080) [369.6 MB] || 14086_Landsat9_data-tw.mp4 (1920x1080) [50.5 MB] || 14086_Landsat9_data-yt.webm (1920x1080) [25.2 MB] || 14086_Landsat9_data.en_US.srt [4.9 KB] || 14086_Landsat9_data.en_US.vtt [4.7 KB] || ", "hits": 102 }, { "id": 13987, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13987/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-11-05T17:00:00-04:00", "title": "Landsat 9 First Light Images", "description": "The first data from Landsat 9, of Australia's Kimberley Coast in Western Australia, shows off the capabilities of the two instruments on the spacecraft. This image, from the Operational Land Imager 2, or OLI-2, was acquired on Oct. 31, 2021. Although similar in design to its predecessor Landsat 8, the improvements to Landsat 9 allow it to detect more subtle differences, especially over darker areas like water or the dense mangrove forests along the coast. || L9_Australia_20211031_p109r070-lrg.jpg (7621x7811) [24.2 MB] || L9_Australia_20211031_p109r070-lrg_searchweb.png (320x180) [106.1 KB] || L9_Australia_20211031_p109r070-lrg_thm.png (80x40) [7.1 KB] || L9_Australia_20211031_p109r070-lrg.tif (7621x7811) [340.6 MB] || ", "hits": 63 }, { "id": 13946, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13946/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-10-01T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Landsat 9 Launch Footage", "description": "Video showing the countdown and launch of Landsat 9, on Monday, Sept 27, 2021. The satellite launched at 2:12pm EDT, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, riding on and Atlas V rocket. || L9_launch_footage_print.jpg (1280x720) [232.9 KB] || L9_launch_footage_print_searchweb.png (320x180) [70.4 KB] || L9_launch_footage_print_thm.png (80x40) [5.3 KB] || L9_launch_footage.mp4 (1280x720) [42.0 MB] || L9_launch_footage.webm (1280x720) [6.7 MB] || L9_launch_footage-captions.en_US.srt [1.0 KB] || L9_launch_footage-captions.en_US.vtt [997 bytes] || ", "hits": 102 }, { "id": 13890, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13890/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-09-01T09:45:00-04:00", "title": "A Trip Through Time with Landsat 9", "description": "For half a century, the Landsat mission has shown us Earth from space. Now, come along with us on a ‘roadtrip’ through the decades to see how the technology on this NASA and U.S. Geological Survey partnership has evolved with the times to provide an unbroken data record. Our roadtrip begins with the idea for an Earth-observing sensor in the 1960s and then cruises through the first game-changing launches in the 1970s, the advent of natural color composite images in the 1980s, the increased global coverage in the 1990s, the move to free and open data archives in the 2000s, the modern era of Landsat observations in the 2010s, and now the launch of Landsat 9 in 2021. Landsat satellites have allowed us to better manage our natural resources, and will continue to help people track the effects of climate change into the future.The Landsat Program is a series of Earth-observing satellite missions jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Landsat satellites have been consistently gathering data about our planet since 1972. They continue to improve and expand this unparalleled record of Earth's changing landscapes for the benefit of all. || ", "hits": 56 }, { "id": 13919, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13919/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-08-31T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Landsat 9 L-16 Press Briefing Graphics", "description": "Officials from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) discussed the upcoming launch of the Landsat 9 satellite during a media briefing at 10 a.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 31.The Landsat 9 launch is targeted for no earlier than Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021.The media briefing will air live on NASA TV, the NASA app, and the agency’s website.Data from Landsat 9 will add to nearly 50 years of free and publicly available data from the Landsat program. The Landsat program is the longest-running enterprise for acquisition of satellite imagery of Earth. It is a joint NASA/USGS program. Researchers harmonize Landsat data to detect the footprint of human activities and measure the effects of climate change on land over decades.Once fully operational in orbit, Landsat 9 will replace Landsat 7 and join its sister satellite, Landsat 8, in continuing to collect data from across the planet every eight days. This calibrated data will continue the Landsat program’s critical role in monitoring land use and helping decision-makers manage essential resources including crops, water resources, and forests.Briefing participants, in speaking order, are:•Karen St. Germain, director of NASA's Earth Science Division•Del Jenstrom, Landsat 9 project manager at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland•Jeff Masek, Landsat 9 project scientist at Goddard•David Applegate, acting director of USGS•Birgit Peterson, geographer at USGS•Inbal Becker-Reshef, director of NASA’s Harvest food security and agriculture program.NASA manages the Landsat 9 mission. Goddard teams also built and tested one of the two instruments on Landsat 9, the Thermal Infrared Sensor 2 (TIRS-2) instrument. TIRS-2 will use thermal imaging to make measurements that are used to calculate soil moisture and detect the health of plants.The USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, will operate the mission and manage the ground system, including maintaining the Landsat archive. Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado, built and tested the Operational Land Imager 2 (OLI-2) instrument, another imaging sensor that provides data in the visible, near infrared, and shortwave infrared portions of the spectrum. United Launch Alliance is the rocket provider for Landsat 9’s launch. Northrop Grumman in Gilbert, Arizona, built the Landsat 9 spacecraft, integrated it with instruments, and tested the observatory.For more information:Media AdvisoryLandsat Video Resourceshttps://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/https://www.usgs.gov/landsat || ", "hits": 23 }, { "id": 13907, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13907/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-08-12T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Go Now! Landsat & the Calypso Caper", "description": "During the summer of 1975, Jacques Cousteau and his divers helped NASA determine if Landsat could measure the depth of shallow ocean waters. The story of this NASA-led satellite bathymetry experiment unfolds through the photography and expedition documents preserved by David Lychenheim, the expedition’s communications engineer. Research done during that expedition determined that in certain conditions Landsat could measure depths up to 22 meters (72 feet), which gave birth to the field of satellite-derived bathymetry. This new technology enabled charts in clear water areas around the world to be revised, helping boats and deep-drafted supertankers avoid running aground on hazardous shoals or seamounts.Music: “Science of Life,” “Moving In Thought,” and “The Right Move” by Andrew Michael Britton [PRS] & David Stephen Goldsmith [PRS], “Midsummer” by Uwe Buschkotter [GEMA], “The Grand Opening” by Laurent Dury [SACEM], “Drifting Satellite” by Théo Boulenger [SACEM], “Man and Machine” by Larry Groupe [BMI], “A Little Optimism 1” by Joel Goodman [ASCAP], “Easy Does It” by Alchemist [SIAE], “Variations” by Stephan Sechi [ASCAP], “Bright and Playful” by Oscar Lo Brutto [PRS]; via Universal Production MusicComplete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || 13907_Landsat_Cousteau_poster.png (1920x1080) [3.1 MB] || 13907_Landsat_Cousteau_poster_print.jpg (1024x576) [287.2 KB] || 13907_Landsat_Cousteau_poster_searchweb.png (320x180) [114.6 KB] || 13907_Landsat_Cousteau_poster_thm.png (80x40) [8.1 KB] || 13907_Landsat_Cousteau-pr.mov (1920x1080) [7.2 GB] || 13907_Landsat_Cousteau-yt.mp4 (1920x1080) [938.3 MB] || 13907_Landsat_Cousteau-tw.mp4 (1280x720) [301.1 MB] || 13907_Landsat_Cousteau-tw.webm (1280x720) [59.6 MB] || 13907_Landsat_Cousteau-captions.en_US.srt [11.3 KB] || 13907_Landsat_Cousteau-captions.en_US.vtt [10.8 KB] || ", "hits": 72 }, { "id": 13889, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13889/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-07-26T11:45:00-04:00", "title": "Landsat 9 at Work", "description": "Landsat 9, launching September 2021, will collect the highest quality data ever recorded by a Landsat satellite, while still ensuring that these new measurements can be compared to those taken by previous generations of the Earth-observing satellite. Landsat 9 will enable or improve measurements of water quality, glacial ice velocity, crop water usage, and much more.Music: The Waiting Room by Sam Dodson [PRS], Afterglow by Christopher Timothy White [PRS], both published by Atmosphere Music Ltd [PRS]; and Inner Strength by Brava/Dsilence/Input/Output [SGAE], published by El Murmullo Sarao [SGAE] and Universal Sarao [SGAE]. Available from Universal Production Music. Complete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || 13889_Landsat9_at_Work_print.jpg (1024x576) [202.5 KB] || 13889_Landsat9_at_Work_print.png (1920x1080) [3.3 MB] || 13889_Landsat9_at_Work_print_thm.png (80x40) [6.4 KB] || 13889_Landsat9_at_Work_searchweb.png (320x180) [100.7 KB] || 13889_Landsat9_at_Work-hd-tw.mp4 (1920x1080) [50.9 MB] || 13889_Landsat9_at_Work-hd-yt.webm (1920x1080) [25.3 MB] || 13889_Landsat9_at_Work-hd-yt.mp4 (1920x1080) [346.2 MB] || 13889_Landsat9_at_Work-captions.en_US.srt [5.1 KB] || 13889_Landsat9_at_Work-captions.en_US.vtt [4.9 KB] || 13889_Landsat9_at_Work-UHD-yt.mp4 (3840x2160) [872.4 MB] || 13889_Landsat9_at_Work-UHD-pr.mov (3840x2160) [11.8 GB] || 13889_Landsat9_at_Work-hd-yt.hwshow [483 bytes] || ", "hits": 74 }, { "id": 13694, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13694/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-04-19T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Tracking Amazon Deforestation", "description": "The Amazon is the largest tropical rainforest in the world, nearly as big as the continental United States. But every year, less of that forest is still standing. Today's deforestation across the Amazon frontier is tractors and bulldozers clearing large swaths to make room for industrial-scale cattle ranching and crops. Landsat satellite data is used to map land cover in Brazil with a historical perspective, going back to 1984.Music: Organic Circuit by Richard Birkin [PRS]; Into the Atmosphere by Sam Joseph Delves [PRS]; Ethereal Journey by Noé Bailleux [SACEM]; Wildfires by Magnum Opus [ASCAP]; Letter For Tomorrow by Anthony d’Amario [SACEM].Complete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || Amazon_clearing_poster.jpg (3840x2160) [2.4 MB] || Amazon_clearing_DSC_1491.jpg (6000x4000) [5.3 MB] || Amazon_clearing_poster_searchweb.png (320x180) [88.6 KB] || Amazon_clearing_poster_thm.png (80x40) [5.8 KB] || 13694_Amazon_deforestation_yt.mp4 (1920x1080) [417.9 MB] || 13694_Amazon_deforestation_tw.mp4 (1280x720) [89.4 MB] || 13694_Amazon_deforestation_yt.webm (1920x1080) [45.5 MB] || 13694_Amazon_deforestation-captions.en_US.srt [7.1 KB] || 13694_Amazon_deforestation-captions.en_US.vtt [6.9 KB] || ", "hits": 761 }, { "id": 13800, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13800/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-03-22T09:30:00-04:00", "title": "Landsat Helps Warn of Algae in Lakes and Rivers", "description": "From space, satellites including the NASA and U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Landsat 8 can help scientists identify lakes where an algal bloom has formed. It’s a complicated data analysis process, but one that researchers are automating so resource managers around the country can use the satellite data to identify potential problems.Music: Light From Dark by Adam Salkedi, Neil Pollard [PRS], published by Atmosphere Music Ltd.; Experimental Design by Laurent Dury [SACEM], published by Koka Media; Against The Wall by Benjamin Peter McAvoy [PRS], published by Sound Pocket Music; Brainstorming by Laurent Dury[SACEM], published by Koka Media; Together As One by Le Fat Club [SACEM], Olivier Grim [SACEM]; published by Koka Media.Complete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || 13800_aquatic_reflection_poster.png (1564x936) [2.7 MB] || 13800_aquatic_reflection_poster_print.jpg (1024x612) [237.1 KB] || 13800_aquatic_reflection_poster_searchweb.png (320x180) [130.5 KB] || 13800_aquatic_reflection_poster_thm.png (80x40) [10.8 KB] || 13800_aquatic_reflectance_prores.mov (1920x1080) [5.3 GB] || 13800_aquatic_reflectance_yt.mp4 (1920x1080) [632.1 MB] || 13800_aquatic_reflectance_fb.mp4 (1920x1080) [473.0 MB] || 13800_aquatic_reflectance_tw-720.mp4 (1280x720) [161.2 MB] || 13800_aquatic_reflectance_yt.webm (1920x1080) [21.7 MB] || 13800_aquatic_reflectance-captions.en_US.srt [9.4 KB] || 13800_aquatic_reflectance-captions.en_US.vtt [9.0 KB] || ", "hits": 44 }, { "id": 13712, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13712/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-11-30T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Landsat 9: Continuing the Legacy series", "description": "Five decades ago, NASA and the US Geological Society launched a satellite to monitor Earth’s land from space. It was the beginning of a legacy. The Apollo era had given us our first looks at Earth from space and inspired the idea of regularly collecting images of our planet. The first Landsat — originally known as the Earth Resources Technology Satellite, or ERTS — rocketed into space in 1972. Since then, there have been eight Landsats and we’re preparing to launch number nine.The Landsat legacy stretches far and wide. Using visible and infrared light, Landsat helps track the health of crops, shows ocean pollution, and tracks coral reefs, icebergs and more. Thanks to sensor that can record wavelengths beyond what we can see with our eyes, Landsat can record vital information about Earth's surface.Narrated by the actor Marc Evan Jackson, who played a Landsat scientist in the movie Kong: Skull Island (2017), this series of videos tells the story of Landsat 9. From the birth of the Landsat program to the present preparations for launching Landsat 9 and even a look to the future with Landsat NeXt. || ", "hits": 103 }, { "id": 13734, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13734/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-11-17T09:45:00-05:00", "title": "Technology Meets Conservation", "description": "In a constantly changing world, the protection of our planet’s endangered species and ecosystems is a priority for ecologists. Recently, a group of researchers at the University of Idaho have worked to combine their extensive on-the-ground research of the endangered Yuma Ridgway’s rail with Landsat’s vast archive, to create a habitat suitability model that can be used by land managers. By using this model, it gives land managers the tools and data to make decisions of how to best carry out conservation for the Yuma Ridgway’s rail on a year to year basis. With the success of this initial model, it’s hypothesized that this tool will be able to help additional species in the area and others down the road.To view the map, click https://sites.google.com/view/habitatsuitability-yrr/homeThe Landsat Program is a series of Earth-observing satellite missions jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Landsat satellites have been consistently gathering data about our planet since 1972. They continue to improve and expand this unparalleled record of Earth's changing landscapes for the benefit of all. || ", "hits": 28 }, { "id": 13723, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13723/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-09-22T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Arctic Greening Driven by Warmer Temperatures", "description": "Data from NASA/USGS Landsat satellites show that during 1985-2016, vegetation in the arctic tundra showed a 38% increase in greenness – representing plants growing more, becoming denser, and/or shrubs encroaching on typical tundra grasses and moss.Complete transcript available.Music: The Rework, by Josslin Bordat [SACEM], published by Koka Media [SACEM], available from Universal Production Music || 13723_ArcticGreening-468.jpg (1421x800) [140.8 KB] || 13723_ArcticGreening-468_searchweb.png (320x180) [87.7 KB] || 13723_ArcticGreening-468_thm.png (80x40) [11.2 KB] || 13723_ArcticGreening-v2.mp4 (1920x1080) [110.1 MB] || 13723_ArcticGreening-v2-twitter.mp4 (1920x1080) [34.0 MB] || 13723_ArcticGreening-v2.webm (1920x1080) [12.0 MB] || 13723_ArcticGreening-v2.en_US.srt [2.0 KB] || 13723_ArcticGreening-v2.en_US.vtt [2.0 KB] || ", "hits": 107 }, { "id": 13247, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13247/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-07-23T08:45:00-04:00", "title": "Landsat 9 Teaser Promo", "description": "Video promoting the technological advances of Landsat 9, continuing the legacy of global land imaging begun in 1972. The video highlights the origin of the Landsat program and some of the many benefits we receive from its data.Music: Marble Place by Matias Suescun [SACEM], published by KTSA Publishing [SACEM], available from Universal Production Music Complete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || Landsat9_teaser_20200723_youtube.00142_print.jpg (1024x576) [218.2 KB] || Landsat9_teaser_20200723_youtube.00142_searchweb.png (320x180) [104.6 KB] || Landsat9_teaser_20200723_youtube.00142_thm.png (80x40) [6.6 KB] || Landsat9_teaser_20200723.mov (1920x1080) [2.6 GB] || L9_teaser_20190713.mp4 (1920x1080) [167.3 MB] || Landsat9_teaser_20200723_youtube.mp4 (1920x1080) [158.5 MB] || Landsat9_teaser_20200723_twitter.mp4 (1920x1080) [22.4 MB] || Landsat9_teaser_20200723_youtube.webm (1920x1080) [11.1 MB] || 13247_Landsat9_teaser-captions.en_US.srt [1.9 KB] || 13247_Landsat9_teaser-captions.en_US.vtt [1.8 KB] || ", "hits": 33 }, { "id": 13614, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13614/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-05-18T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "40 Years of Forest Recovery", "description": "The long record of Landsat data (since 1972) is helping scientists Sean Healey and Zhiqiang Yang of the Rocky Mountain Research Station (U.S. Forest Service) study the long-term impact of the May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens. With Landsat data for 8 years before the eruption, and 40 years since, they have calculated the percent tree cover for each year, watching as vegetation grows back.Music: The Waiting Room by Sam Dodson [PRS], published by Atmosphere Music Ltd [PRS]; Inner Strength by Brava [SGAE], Dsilence [SGAE], Input [SGAE] , Output [SGAE], published by El Murmullo Sarao [SGAE], Universal Sarao [SGAE], Some Assembly by Kyle Fredrickson [ASCAP] and Taylor Alexander Locke [BMI], published by Killer Tracks [BMI], Soundcast Music [SESAC], and Light From Dark by Adam Salkeld [PRS] and Neil Pollard [PRS], published by Atmosphere Music Ltd [PRS], all available from Universal Production Music.Complete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || 13614_Mt_St_Helens_Landsat.png (1920x1080) [4.0 MB] || 13614_Mt_St_Helens_print.png (1920x1080) [3.5 MB] || 13614_Mt_St_Helens_print_print.jpg (1024x576) [287.9 KB] || 13614_Mt_St_Helens_print_searchweb.png (320x180) [106.3 KB] || 13614_Mt_St_Helens_print_thm.png (80x40) [7.4 KB] || 13614_Mt_St_Helens_prores.mov (1920x1080) [11.9 GB] || 13614_Mt_St_Helens_youtube.mp4 (1920x1080) [411.3 MB] || 13614_Mt_St_Helens_facebook.mp4 (1920x1080) [354.9 MB] || 13614_Mt_St_Helens_twitter.mp4 (1504x846) [139.3 MB] || 13614_Mt_St_Helens_youtube.webm (1920x1080) [47.9 MB] || 13614_Mt_St_Helens-captions.en_US.srt [8.6 KB] || 13614_Mt_St_Helens-captions.en_US.vtt [8.6 KB] || ", "hits": 87 }, { "id": 13585, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13585/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-04-17T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Bird's-eye View of Biodiversity with Landsat", "description": "Temperature data from the Landsat 8 satellite is used by scientists at University of Wisconsin-Madison to predict bird biodiversity in winter months. Turns out, having a habitat with pockets of different temperatures – like a grove of trees in an open field, or a nest or snow burrow – is especially important for small-bodied bird species and those threatened by climate change. Music: Life Cycles by Theo Golding [PRS], published by Atmosphere Music Ltd [PRS]Complete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || 13585_Bird_Temp_poster.png (1280x720) [1.3 MB] || 13585_Bird_Temp_poster_print.jpg (1024x576) [108.6 KB] || 13585_Bird_Temp_poster_searchweb.png (320x180) [92.2 KB] || 13585_Bird_Temp_poster_thm.png (80x40) [6.8 KB] || 13585_Bird_Temp_prores.mov (1280x720) [1.0 GB] || 13585_Bird_Temp_youtube.mp4 (1280x720) [129.4 MB] || 13585_Bird_Temp_twitter.mp4 (1280x720) [64.3 MB] || 13585_Bird_Temp_youtube.webm (1280x720) [16.6 MB] || 13585_Bird_Temp.en_US.srt [2.9 KB] || 13585_Bird_Temp.en_US.vtt [2.8 KB] || ", "hits": 82 }, { "id": 4797, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4797/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2020-03-10T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "South Georgia Island Flyover", "description": "South Georiga Island using Landsat-8 imagery (March 28, 2018) draped over SRTM topography. Landsat-8 bands 4,3,1, and 5 were used. || south_georgia_island03.2200_print.jpg (1024x576) [157.8 KB] || south_georgia_island03.2200_searchweb.png (320x180) [110.5 KB] || south_georgia_island03.2200_thm.png (80x40) [7.5 KB] || south_georgia_island03.mp4 (1920x1080) [59.8 MB] || 1920x1080_16x9_30p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || south_georgia_island03.webm (1920x1080) [10.7 MB] || south_georgia_island03.mp4.hwshow [188 bytes] || ", "hits": 31 }, { "id": 4745, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4745/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2020-03-03T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Landsat with Sentinel - Global Coverage", "description": "This visualization depicts the orbits and data swaths of the Landsat 8, Landsat 9, Sentinel 2a, and Sentinel 2b satellites. The satellites appear one at a time with their respective data swaths. As time progresses throughout the visualization, the satellites ‘paint’ the globe with imagery to show how the four spacecraft work together to build a complete picture of the Earth. || landsat_w_sentinel_v2_ls8ls9sAsB_fade_08_60fps_4k_3240_print.jpg (1024x576) [55.5 KB] || landsat_w_sentinel_v2_ls8ls9sAsB_fade_08_60fps_4k_3240_searchweb.png (320x180) [62.5 KB] || landsat_w_sentinel_v2_ls8ls9sAsB_fade_08_60fps_4k_3240_thm.png (80x40) [4.5 KB] || landsat_w_sentinel_ls8ls9sAsB_fade_1080p60.mp4 (1920x1080) [29.1 MB] || landsat_w_sentinel_ls8ls9sAsB_fade_1080p60.webm (1920x1080) [8.1 MB] || landsat_w_sentinel_v2_ls8ls9sAsB_fade_08_60fps_4k (3840x2160) [512.0 KB] || landsat_w_sentinel_ls8ls9sAsB_fade_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [82.6 MB] || ", "hits": 169 }, { "id": 13543, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13543/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-02-12T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Landsat: Farming Data From Space", "description": "Landsat satellites have been gathering data for 48 years, equipping scientists and farmers to answer big questions about how to improve agriculture around the world. From tracking crop production, assessing crop health, and monitoring water use, Landsat data provides tangible benefits to the USA and the world. Landsat satellites are built and lauched by NASA, and operated by USGS. Complete transcript available.Music: \"Lines of Enquiry\" by Theo Golding [PRS], published by Atmosphere Music [PRS]Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || LandsatAg-Thumbnail.png (1920x1080) [4.0 MB] || LandsatAg-Thumbnail_print.jpg (1024x576) [166.3 KB] || LandsatAg-Thumbnail_searchweb.png (320x180) [109.3 KB] || LandsatAg-Thumbnail_thm.png (80x40) [6.6 KB] || LandsatAg-FINAL.mov (1920x1080) [3.2 GB] || LandsatAg-FINAL_youtube_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [148.1 MB] || LandsatAg-FINAL_facebook_720.mp4 (1280x720) [110.9 MB] || LandsatAg-FINAL_twitter_720.mp4 (1280x720) [20.1 MB] || LandsatAg-FINAL.webm (960x540) [39.3 MB] || LandsatAg-FINAL-captions.en_US.srt [1.8 KB] || LandsatAg-FINAL-captions.en_US.vtt [1.8 KB] || ", "hits": 132 }, { "id": 13492, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13492/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-12-09T16:20:00-05:00", "title": "48 Years of Alaska Glaciers", "description": "Mark Fahnestock, a scientist with the Geological Institute of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, has assembled annual mosaics of all the glaciers in Alaska and the Yukon using Landsat images going back to 1972. Using these mosaics, Mark is able to study glacier motion and speed.All music published by Atmosphere Music Ltd [PRS]: Inducing Waves, composer Ben Niblett [PRS] Jon Cotton [PRS]; Critical Pathway, composer Rik Carter [PRS]; Emerging Discovery, composer Rik Carter [PRS]Complete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || 13492_Alaska_Glaciers_mosaic_print.jpg (1920x1080) [1.0 MB] || 13492_Alaska_Glaciers_mosaic_print_searchweb.png (320x180) [135.5 KB] || 13492_Alaska_Glaciers_mosaic_print_thm.png (80x40) [9.0 KB] || 13492_Alaska_Glaciers.mov (1920x1080) [4.3 GB] || 13492_Alaska_Glaciers.mp4 (1920x1080) [516.6 MB] || 13492_Alaska_Glaciers.webm (1920x1080) [38.7 MB] || 13492_Alaska_Glaciers-captions.en_US.srt [5.9 KB] || 13492_Alaska_Glaciers-captions.en_US.vtt [5.9 KB] || ", "hits": 218 }, { "id": 13417, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13417/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-11-27T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Landsat Croplands Data Overview", "description": "The U.S. Department of Agriculture tracks how many acres and the annual yield for every crop produced. One method used to estimate crop acreage and yield is remote-sensing data from the NASA-USGS Landsat satellite program. The program started in 1997,with North Dakota, and by 2008 covered the entire lower 48 states and the District of Columbia. Music: \"Downloading Landscapes\" by Andrew Michael Britton [PRS] and David Stephen Goldsmith [PRS]. Published by Atmosphere Music Ltd [PRS].Complete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || 13417_Landsat_Croplands_print.jpg (1920x1080) [940.0 KB] || 13417_Landsat_Croplands_print_searchweb.png (180x320) [52.1 KB] || 13417_Landsat_Croplands_print_thm.png (80x40) [4.6 KB] || 13417_Landsat_Croplands.webm (1920x1080) [19.7 MB] || 13417_Landsat_Croplands.mp4 (1920x1080) [292.2 MB] || 13417_Landsat_Croplands-captions.en_US.srt [3.0 KB] || 13417_Landsat_Croplands-captions.en_US.vtt [3.0 KB] || 13417_Landsat_Croplands.mov (1920x1080) [4.8 GB] || 13417_Landsat_Croplands.mp4.hwshow [423 bytes] || ", "hits": 181 }, { "id": 13329, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13329/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-09-27T12:45:00-04:00", "title": "OLI-2 ships to Northrop Grumman", "description": "The Operational Land Imager 2, or OLI-2, will detect visible and infrared light from Earth's surface, providing data on our changing planet. OLI-2 was built and tested at Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado. Landsat 9, a partnership between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, is a series of satellites that began with Landsat 1 in 1972.Music: Bit Streaming, composed by David Edwards [ASCAP], published by Soundcast Music [SESAC] Complete transcript available. || 13329_OLI-2_Ships_still.jpg (1920x1080) [555.8 KB] || 13329_OLI-2_Ships_still_searchweb.png (320x180) [110.3 KB] || 13329_OLI-2_Ships_still_thm.png (80x40) [8.5 KB] || 13329_OLI-2_Ships_large.webm (1920x1080) [19.2 MB] || 13329_OLI-2_Ships_large.mp4 (1920x1080) [217.5 MB] || 13329_OLI-2_ships-captions.en_US.srt [1.4 KB] || 13329_OLI-2_ships-captions.en_US.vtt [1.4 KB] || 13329_OLI-2_Ships_MASTER.mov (1920x1080) [3.5 GB] || ", "hits": 47 }, { "id": 13292, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13292/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-08-23T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "TIRS-2 Ready For Integration", "description": "The Thermal Infrared Sensor 2 (TIRS-2) has passed its tests at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and traveled across the country to be integrated onto Landsat 9.Music: Last Outpost by Lennert Busch [PRS], published by Sound Pocket Music [PRS]Complete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || TIRS-2_shipping_20190813-28_print.jpg (1024x576) [83.4 KB] || TIRS-2_shipping_20190813-28.png (3840x2160) [10.7 MB] || TIRS-2_shipping_20190813-28_searchweb.png (320x180) [82.4 KB] || TIRS-2_shipping_20190813-28_thm.png (80x40) [5.8 KB] || 13292_TIRS-2_Ships_MASTER_V3.mov (1920x1080) [2.6 GB] || 13292_TIRS-2_Ships.mp4 (1920x1080) [160.5 MB] || 13292_TIRS-2_Ships_MASTER_V3_facebook_720.mp4 (1280x720) [91.2 MB] || 13292_TIRS-2_Ships_MASTER_V3.webm (960x540) [33.0 MB] || 13292_TIRS-2_Ships-captions.en_US.srt [1.2 KB] || 13292_TIRS-2_Ships-captions.en_US.vtt [1.2 KB] || ", "hits": 39 }, { "id": 12051, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12051/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-04-27T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "25 Years of Forest Dynamics", "description": "Annual maps of the lower-48 United States produced from Landsat data illustrate how forests changed from 1986-2010. Logging and hurricanes play a significant role in the Southeast, and fires and insect invasion damage forest canopy in the West.Complete transcript available.Music credit: Dusk On The Plains by B. BostonWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || 12051_Forest_Dynamics_1280_print.jpg (1024x576) [102.9 KB] || 12051_Forest_Dynamics_1280_searchweb.png (320x180) [68.6 KB] || 12051_Forest_Dynamics_1280_thm.png (80x40) [5.2 KB] || 12051_Forest_Dynamics_1920_VX-280049_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [135.8 MB] || 12051_Forest_Dynamics_1920_VX-280049_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [135.9 MB] || 12051_Forest_Dynamics_1920_VX-280049.webm (960x540) [116.6 MB] || 12051_Forest_Dynamics_1920_VX-280049_large.mp4 (1920x1080) [292.3 MB] || 12051_Forest_Dynamics_1280.mp4 (1280x720) [291.8 MB] || 12051_Forest_Dynamics_1920_VX-280049.mpeg (1280x720) [974.1 MB] || 12051_Forest_Dynamics-captions.en_US.vtt [6.7 KB] || 12051_Forest_Dynamics-captions.en_US.srt [6.6 KB] || 12051_Forest_Dynamics_1920_VX-280049_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [47.4 MB] || 12051_Forest_Dynamics-youtube4K.mp4 (3840x2160) [1.1 GB] || 12051_Forest_Dynamics_1920_VX-280049_youtube_hq.mov (1920x1080) [3.6 GB] || 12051_Forest_Dynamics_1920_VX-280049_prores.mov (1280x720) [4.2 GB] || 12051_Forest_Dynamics_UHD.mov (3840x2160) [30.7 GB] || ", "hits": 98 }, { "id": 30938, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30938/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2018-04-04T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Ice Losses in Tropical Asia", "description": "Progression from 1980-2018 || L2to8_1980_HWcrop2_1080p.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [99.1 KB] || L2to8_1980_HWcrop2_1080p.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [87.8 KB] || L2to8_1980_HWcrop2_1080p.00001_thm.png (80x40) [6.4 KB] || L2to8_1980_HWcrop2_1080p.mp4 (1920x1080) [5.2 MB] || L2to8_1980_HWcrop2_720p.mp4 (1280x720) [3.0 MB] || L2to8_1980_HWcrop2_1080p.webm (1920x1080) [4.1 MB] || L2to8_1980_HWcrop2_2304p.mp4 (4096x2304) [16.1 MB] || 4104x2304_16x9_30p (4104x2304) [0 Item(s)] || ", "hits": 159 }, { "id": 12770, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12770/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-03-19T18:00:00-04:00", "title": "Harmonized Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 Data", "description": "Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 satellites have spectral and spatial similarities that make using their data together possible. When the data are used together observations can be more timely and accurate. The HLS project is an effort to \"harmonize\" the data of the two satellite programs so that they can be more easily used in unison. The ultimate goal is to obtain seamless 2-3 day global surface reflectance coverage at 30 meters that removes residual differences between the sensors due to spectral bandpass and view geometry. Currently the v1.3 HLS data set encompasses 82 global test sites that cover about 7% of the global land area.Using the processing power of the NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) computer cluster at NASA Ames, the HLS workflow atmospherically corrects data from the satellites, geographically tiles the Landsat data in a manor matching the Sentinel-2 tiling, and then corrects for different sensor view angles (Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function, or BRDF) and does a slight band pass adjustment for the Sentinel-2 data to create the harmonized 30-meter product.The HLS team includes researchers from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the University of Maryland, and NASA Ames Research Center. || ", "hits": 81 }, { "id": 12851, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12851/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-02-09T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "5th Anniversary of Landsat 8's Launch", "description": "In its five years in space, Landsat 8 made 26,500 orbits around Earth and captured 1.1 million \"scenes\" of our home planet, representing 16 percent of all the observations kept in the 45-year Landsat archive.Music: Divine Punishment by Christopher Franke [BMI]Complete transcript available. || 12851_Landsat8_5_year_large.01975_print.jpg (1024x576) [50.2 KB] || 12851_Landsat8_5_year_large.01975_searchweb.png (320x180) [7.1 KB] || 12851_Landsat8_5_year_large.01975_thm.png (80x40) [1.4 KB] || 12851_Landsat8_5_year_prores_1920.mov (1920x1080) [4.7 GB] || 12851_Landsat8_5_year_prores_1280.mov (1280x720) [2.5 GB] || 12851_Landsat8_5_year_large.mp4 (1920x1080) [191.3 MB] || 12851_Landsat8_5_year_youtube_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [327.2 MB] || 12851_Landsat8_5_year_youtube_720.mp4 (1280x720) [315.6 MB] || 12851_Landsat8_5_year_twitter_720.mp4 (1280x720) [53.5 MB] || 12851_Landsat8_5_year.webm (960x540) [76.4 MB] || 12851_Landsat8_5_year-captions.en_US.srt [3.8 KB] || 12851_Landsat8_5_year-captions.en_US.vtt [3.8 KB] || ", "hits": 102 }, { "id": 12754, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12754/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Landsat sensors: pushbroom vs whiskbroom", "description": "Landsat collects images in long narrow strips called “swaths.” Each swath is 185 kilometers (115 miles) wide and is 2,752 kilometers (1,710 miles) from the next adjacent swath taken that day. It takes 16 days for the swaths to overlap enough to image the whole Earth.Previous Landsat sensors swept back and forth across the swath like a whisk broom to collect data. The sensor looked at a calibration source at the end of every row, which means that measurements were consistent from orbit to orbit. But this sensor design requires fast-moving parts, which are more likely to break.—and which did on Landsat 7.In contrast, the instruments on Landsat 8 view across the entire swath at once, building strips of data like a pushbroom. This approach requires no moving parts and gives the sensor detectors greater dwell time. The pushbroom instrument is smaller and lighter than previous whisk broom instruments, but its calibration is much more complex given the large number of detectors.“It was a natural step to evolve to a pushbroom sensor. The technology was proven on other satellites, and we knew we could get better accuracy. The pushbroom has no moving parts. It is a newer and more reliable technology.” explains Terry Arvidson, senior project engineer.For more information on the future of Landsat instruments, read https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/landsat-9/instruments/. || ", "hits": 316 }, { "id": 11761, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11761/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-07-21T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Land Changes in Atchafalaya Bay", "description": "Since 1972, Landsat satellites have orbited our home planet, collecting data about the land surface we rely on. This video shows footage of the launch of the first Landsat satellite, on July 23, 1972, and a timelapse of the changing coastal wetlands in Atchafalaya Bay, Louisiana.Music credit: Step By Step, by Gresby Race Nash [PRS] || 11761_Atchafalaya_Delta_Landsat45th_large.00385_print.jpg (1024x576) [74.5 KB] || 11761_Atchafalaya_Delta_Landsat45th_large.00385_searchweb.png (320x180) [63.5 KB] || 11761_Atchafalaya_Delta_Landsat45th_large.00385_thm.png (80x40) [5.0 KB] || 11761_Atchafalaya_Delta_Landsat45th_prores.mov (1280x720) [1.5 GB] || 11761_Atchafalaya_Delta_Landsat45th_large.mp4 (1920x1080) [111.8 MB] || 11761_Atchafalaya_Delta_Landsat45th_youtube_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [162.4 MB] || 11761_Atchafalaya_Delta_Landsat45th_facebook_720.mp4 (1280x720) [118.5 MB] || 11761_Atchafalaya_Delta_Landsat45th.webm (960x540) [45.1 MB] || GSFC_20170721_Landsat_m11761_Atchafalaya.en_US.vtt [42 bytes] || ", "hits": 57 }, { "id": 12633, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12633/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-07-12T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Crack in Larsen C Ice Shelf", "description": "Thermal wavelength image of a large iceberg, which has calved off the Larsen C ice shelf. Darker colors are colder, and brighter colors are warmer, so the rift between the iceberg and the ice shelf appears as a thin line of slightly warmer area. Image from July 12, 2017, from the MODIS instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite.Credit: NASA Worldview || nasa-worldview-2017-07-12-thermal-detail-label.jpg (1280x800) [109.6 KB] || nasa-worldview-2017-07-12-thermal-detail.jpg (1280x800) [76.5 KB] || ", "hits": 126 }, { "id": 12612, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12612/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-05-18T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Landsat Tracks Mount St. Helens Recovery", "description": "In 1980, Mount St. Helens roared back into major activity with a massive eruption that leveled surrounding forest, blasted away over a thousand feet of the mountain's summit, and claimed 57 human lives.This short video shows the catastrophic eruption - and the amazing recovery of the surrounding ecosystem - through the eyes of the Landsat satellites, which have been imaging our planet for almost forty years. By observing red, near-infrared, and green wavelengths of light reflected off the surface, it is possible to distinguish healthy vegetation (in green) from bare ground (in magenta).Music: Running by Dirk Ehlert [BMI], Guillermo De La Barreda [BMI]Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || 12612-Mt-St-Helens-timelapse-print.jpg (1920x1080) [2.3 MB] || 12612-Mt-St-Helens-timelapse-print_searchweb.png (320x180) [129.3 KB] || 12612-Mt-St-Helens-timelapse-print_thm.png (80x40) [7.7 KB] || 12612-Mt-St-Helens-timelapse_prores.mov (1280x720) [1.3 GB] || 12612-Mt-St-Helens-timelapse_large.mp4 (1920x1080) [95.7 MB] || 12612-Mt-St-Helens-timelapse_youtube_hq.mov (1920x1080) [407.5 MB] || 12612-Mt-St-Helens-timelapse_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [44.8 MB] || 12612-Mt-St-Helens-timelapse_.webm (960x540) [38.8 MB] || GSFC_20170518_MtStHelens_m12612_Timelapse.en_US.vtt [42 bytes] || 12612-Mt-St-Helens-timelapse_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [15.5 MB] || ", "hits": 159 }, { "id": 12444, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12444/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-12-12T02:20:00-05:00", "title": "Landsat's Global View of Ice Velocity", "description": "Ice from glaciers constantly flows into the ocean, but the speed the ice moves at changes. Landsat 8 provides near-real-time mapping of ice speed in nearly all the world’s frozen regions. Information like ice speed helps scientists study our home planet and its vulnerability to rising seas. || ", "hits": 51 }, { "id": 12225, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12225/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-06-02T09:50:00-04:00", "title": "Details of Arctic Greening in North America", "description": "NASA scientists used almost 30 years of data from the NASA/USGS Landsat satellites to track changes in vegetation in Alaska and Canada. Of the more than 4 million square miles, 30% had increases in vegetation (greening) while only 3% had decreases (browning). This is the first study to produce a continent-scale map while still providing detailed information at the human scale.Music: \"Alaska,\" by Janik Riegert [GEMA], Josh Tapen [GEMA]Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || 12225_Arctic_greening_MASTER_large.00140_print.jpg (1024x576) [212.8 KB] || 12225_Arctic_greening_MASTER_large.00140_searchweb.png (320x180) [111.9 KB] || 12225_Arctic_greening_MASTER_large.00140_thm.png (80x40) [6.8 KB] || 12225_Arctic_greening_MASTER_youtube_hq.mov (1920x1080) [781.8 MB] || 12225_Arctic_greening_MASTER_large.mp4 (1920x1080) [109.6 MB] || 12225_Arctic_greening_MASTER_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [53.8 MB] || 12225_Arctic_greening_MASTER.mpeg (1280x720) [368.4 MB] || 12225_Arctic_greening_MASTER_prores.mov (1280x720) [1.5 GB] || 12225_Arctic_greening_MASTER.webm (960x540) [43.9 MB] || 12225_Arctic_greening_MASTER_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [53.8 MB] || 12225_Arctic_greening-captions.en_US.srt [105 bytes] || 12225_Arctic_greening-captions.en_US.vtt [118 bytes] || 12225_Arctic_greening_MASTER_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [19.2 MB] || ", "hits": 195 }, { "id": 12196, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12196/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-04-05T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Southeast India Flooding, Dec. 2015", "description": "False-color image, acquired on December 8, 2015, by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8, showing the extent of flooding in southeastern India after a deluge of rain a week earlier. The Somasila Reservoir and other water bodies in the region are significantly expanded compared to the image from October 21, 2015. || india_oli_2015342_after_print.jpg (1024x576) [243.7 KB] || india_oli_2015342_after.png (4096x2304) [18.0 MB] || india_oli_2015342_after_searchweb.png (320x180) [125.5 KB] || india_oli_2015342_after_thm.png (80x40) [7.1 KB] || southeast-india-flooding-dec-2015-after.hwshow [268 bytes] || ", "hits": 52 }, { "id": 30750, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30750/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2016-02-12T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Changes in Zachariae Isstrom Glacier", "description": "Zachariae Isstrom glacier, close up || zachariae_isstrom_glacier_1080p_print.jpg (1024x576) [119.9 KB] || zachariae_isstrom_glacier_1080p.mp4 (1920x1080) [15.5 MB] || zachariae_isstrom_glacier_720p.mp4 (1280x720) [7.0 MB] || zachariae_isstrom_glacier_720p.webm (1280x720) [3.2 MB] || zi_glacier_2304p.mp4 (4096x2304) [65.5 MB] || zachariae_isstrom_glacier_360p.mp4 (640x360) [1.8 MB] || crop (4104x2304) [0 Item(s)] || ", "hits": 22 }, { "id": 4399, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4399/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-11-30T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "A Quarter Century US Forest Disturbance History from Landsat – the NAFD-NEX Products", "description": "Visualization showing forest change in various locations from 1986 to 2010This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || annual_forest43.04000_print.jpg (1024x576) [253.2 KB] || annual_forest43.04000_searchweb.png (180x320) [129.5 KB] || annual_forest43.04000_thm.png (80x40) [7.7 KB] || 1920x1080_16x9_60p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || annual_forest43_1920x1080p60.webm (1920x1080) [23.2 MB] || annual_forest43_1920x1080p60.mp4 (1920x1080) [228.8 MB] || 9600x3240_16x9_30p (9600x3240) [0 Item(s)] || 3840x2160_16x9_60p (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || annual_forest43_4399.key [233.2 MB] || annual_forest43_4399.pptx [230.6 MB] || annual_forest43_4k_2160p60.mp4 (3840x2160) [825.7 MB] || 4399_annual_forest43_4k_cbar_MP4.mov (3840x2160) [14.4 GB] || annual.hwshow [55 bytes] || ", "hits": 69 }, { "id": 12013, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12013/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-09-24T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Landsat Helps Feed the Birds", "description": "The BirdReturns program, created by The Nature Conservancy of California, is an effort to provide \"pop-up habitats\" for some of the millions of shorebirds, such as sandpipers and plovers, that migrate each year from their summer breeding grounds in Alaska and Canada to their winter habitats in California, Mexico, Central and South America. The route takes the birds along what’s called the Pacific Flyway, where they seek out the increasingly rare wetlands teeming with tasty insects to fuel their long-distance flights. The Nature Conservancy of California operates the BirdReturns program, with partners including Point Blue Conservation Science, Audubon California and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Over the last century, California's Central Valley has lost 95% of the wetlands habitat, which is needed for the shorebirds while on their migration. The solution involves big data, binoculars and rice paddies. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s eBird program collects on-the-ground observations, including species and date spotted, from bird watchers nationwide. With a recent NASA grant to Cornell, scientists created computer models to analyze that information and combine it with satellite remote sensing imagery from Landsat and the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instruments on NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites. With these models, they could identify areas in the Central Valley where birds flocked to during the spring and fall migrations, as well as estimate the number of birds making the journey.Some of his colleagues had been using Landsat images to look at where – and when – there was standing water, to assist with surveys of shorebirds.The nonprofit Point Blue, based in Petaluma, California, developed models that can classify habitats based on Landsat imagery. For the BirdReturns project, the team analyzed 1,500 Landsat scenes between 2000 and 2011, and then additional images from Landsat 8 after its 2013 launch. For each area not blocked by clouds, they classified whether there was surface water.Matching the location and timing of surface water from Landsat with the route and timing of migrating shorebirds from eBird, the BirdReturns program looks for those key sites where extra water would make a difference for the birds, which forage for food in the wetland areas. The Nature Conservancy then uses a reverse auction where farmers try to submit the lowest bid to turn their empty fields into a pop-up wetland for the few weeks the birds are stopping in the Central Valley while on their migration.We would like to thank the Point Blue and The Nature Conservancy for supplying Central Valley water data. Least sandpiper data courtesy of Cornell Lab of Ornithology, eBird Basic Dataset. Version: EBD_relMay-2013. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. May 2013. || ", "hits": 32 }, { "id": 11974, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11974/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-08-17T19:00:00-04:00", "title": "Mining for Water in Kansas", "description": "This image from 2015, and the accompanying images from 1972, 1988, and 2011 show the transformation of Kansas farmland from dryland, rectangular fields to circular irrigated fields from center-pivot irrigation systems. The mining of ground water for agriculture has been a significant trend globally over the last half-century, and these images of a region in Kansas highlight the trend within the United States. || Garden_city_KS-2015_print.jpg (1024x975) [580.9 KB] || Garden_city_KS-2015_searchweb.png (320x180) [147.7 KB] || Garden_city_KS-2015_thm.png (80x40) [9.3 KB] || Garden_city_KS-2015.tif (3920x3736) [41.9 MB] || ", "hits": 53 }, { "id": 11973, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11973/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-08-17T18:00:00-04:00", "title": "Lakes On A Glacier", "description": "A view of Greenland's ice sheet from the NASA/USGS Landsat 8 satellite, narrated by Dr. Allen Pope. The data enables Dr. Pope to measure the depth of the lakes that form on the surface every summer as the snow and ice melts. The data in this image are from July 12, 2014, and shows the area just south of the Jakobshavn Glacier.For complete transcript, click here.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || G2015-056_Lakes_On_A_Glacier-print.jpg (1024x576) [430.4 KB] || G2015-056_Lakes_On_A_Glacier_MASTER_youtube_hq_searchweb.png (180x320) [71.3 KB] || G2015-056_Lakes_On_A_Glacier_MASTER_youtube_hq_thm.png (80x40) [4.8 KB] || G2015-056_Lakes_On_A_Glacier_MASTER_youtube_1920.mp4 (1920x1080) [132.4 MB] || G2015-056_Lakes_On_A_Glacier_MASTER_youtube_hq.mov (1280x720) [391.1 MB] || G2015-056_Lakes_On_A_Glacier_MASTER_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [78.9 MB] || G2015-056_Lakes_On_A_Glacier_MASTER.mpeg (1280x720) [560.6 MB] || G2015-056_Lakes_On_A_Glacier_MASTER_1280x720.wmv (1280x720) [80.6 MB] || G2015-056_Lakes_On_A_Glacier_MASTER_prores.mov (1280x720) [2.3 GB] || G2015-056_Lakes_On_A_Glacier_MASTER_prores-1920.mov (1920x1080) [4.3 GB] || G2015-056_Lakes_On_A_Glacier_MASTER.webm (960x540) [67.1 MB] || G2015-056_Lakes_On_A_Glacier_MASTER_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [79.0 MB] || G2015-056_Lakes_On_A_Glacier-captions.en_US.srt [3.0 KB] || G2015-056_Lakes_On_A_Glacier-captions.en_US.vtt [3.0 KB] || G2015-056_Lakes_On_A_Glacier_MASTER_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [28.0 MB] || ", "hits": 39 }, { "id": 11818, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11818/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-03-23T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Wyoming Snowmelt 2013", "description": "Images from NASA/USGS Landsat satellites show the snowcover in Wyoming's Fremont Lake Basin throughout 2013. 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While much of the region is still frozen in June, the ice is in various stages of melting.For complete transcript, click here.Watch this video on the NASA Earth Observatory YouTube channel.Music: Thin Ice Mining by Chris Constantinou [PRS], Paul Frazer [PRS] Melting Glacier by Chris Constantinou [PRS], Paul Frazer [PRS] Undiscovered Oceans by Aaron Yeddidia [BMI], Chris Lang [BMI], Eric Cunningham [BMI] Another Sleep by Chris Constantinou [PRS], Paul Frazer [PRS] || G2015-015_Arctic_Swath_MASTER_youtube_hq_print.jpg (1024x576) [110.7 KB] || G2015-015_Arctic_Swath_MASTER_youtube_hq_searchweb.png (320x180) [71.0 KB] || G2015-015_Arctic_Swath_MASTER_youtube_hq_web.png (320x180) [71.0 KB] || G2015-015_Arctic_Swath_MASTER_youtube_hq_thm.png (80x40) [6.1 KB] || G2015-015_Arctic_Swath_MASTER_youtube_hq.mov (1920x1080) [411.2 MB] || G2015-015_Arctic_Swath_MASTER_appletv.m4v (960x540) [122.8 MB] || G2015-015_Arctic_Swath_MASTER_1280x720.wmv (1280x720) [144.3 MB] || G2015-015_Arctic_Swath_MASTER_prores.mov (1280x720) [4.2 GB] || G2015-015_Arctic_Swath_MASTER_appletv.webm (960x540) [33.2 MB] || G2015-015_Arctic_Swath_MASTER_appletv_subtitles.m4v (960x540) [122.7 MB] || G2015-015_Arctic_Swath_MASTER_ipod_lg.m4v (640x360) [49.2 MB] || G2015-015_Arctic_Swath_MASTER_nasaportal.mov (640x360) [121.2 MB] || G2015-015_Arctic_Swath-caption.en_US.srt [145 bytes] || G2015-015_Arctic_Swath-caption.en_US.vtt [158 bytes] || G2015-015_Arctic_Swath_MASTER_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [26.7 MB] || ", "hits": 77 }, { "id": 4271, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4271/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-02-16T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Landsat-8 Long Arctic Swath", "description": "Landsat 8 observed this arctic swath of data on June 21, 2014. This section captures Victoria Island, the boundary between the Nunavut and the Northwest Territories of Canada, and the Amundsen Gulf. The Prince Albert Sound and the Dolphin and Union Strait are still ice covered. || longer_Landsat8swathJune212014.3050_print.jpg (1024x576) [90.0 KB] || longer_Landsat8swathJune212014.3050_searchweb.png (320x180) [67.1 KB] || longer_Landsat8swathJune212014.3050_thm.png (80x40) [6.3 KB] || longer_Landsat8swathJune212014_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [31.3 MB] || reveal (1920x1080) [256.0 KB] || longer_Landsat8swathJune212014_1080.webm (1920x1080) [12.7 MB] || ", "hits": 35 }, { "id": 11615, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11615/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-07-22T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Landsat's Global Perspective", "description": "Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the 1972 launch of the Landsat 1 spacecraft, this is a \"greatest hits\" montage of Landsat data. Throughout the decades, the Landsat satellites have given us a detailed view of the changes to Earth's land surface. By collecting data in multiple wavelength regions, including thermal infrared wavelengths, the Landsat fleet has allowed us to study natural disasters, urban change, water quality and water usage, agriculture development, glaciers and ice sheets, and forest health.NASA and the U.S. Department of the Interior through the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) jointly manage Landsat, and the USGS preserves a 40-year archive of Landsat images that is freely available data over the Internet. || ", "hits": 39 }, { "id": 11606, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11606/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-07-11T08:00:00-04:00", "title": "Landsat 8 Lunar Calibration", "description": "Every full moon, Landsat 8 turns its back on Earth. As the satellite's orbit takes it to the nighttime side of the planet, Landsat 8 pivots to point at the moon. It scans the distant lunar surface multiple times, then flips back around to continue its task of collecting land-cover information of the sunny side of Earth below.These monthly lunar scans are key to ensuring the land-imaging instrument (the Operational Land Imager) aboard Landsat 8 is detecting light consistently. For this, engineers need a consistent source of light to measure. And while there are some spots on Earth – like the Sahara Desert or other arid sites - that reflect a relatively stable amount of light, nothing on our planet beats the moon, which lacks an atmosphere and has an unchanging surface, barring the odd meteorite.The Landsat Program is a series of Earth-observing satellite missions jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. The first Landsat satellite launched in 1972 and Landsat 8 launched on February 11, 2013. || ", "hits": 185 }, { "id": 11506, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11506/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-03-20T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Tracking Urban Change With Landsat", "description": "For helping communities across the United States stay up-to-date on their flood risk, the NASA/USGS Landsat satellites can take a bow. The Federal Emergency Management Agency uses Landsat images, which can illustrate urban changes, as a key indicator of sites where the agency should further investigate the flooding potential. With its archive of images capturing sprawling cities and new developments, Landsat can help FEMA track how building and construction is impacting an area’s landscapeEarth-observing Landsat satellites have been capturing images of the planet’s surface since 1972. Landsat 8 is the newest satellite in the program, a joint effort between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. It launched Feb. 11, 2013, and collects more than 400 images per day. New and archived Landsat data are available free to the public over the internet – and researchers have put the data to a multitude of uses. One is called the National Urban Change Indicator, or NUCI, created by MacDonald, Dettwiler, and Associates, LTD. It’s the results from a process that mines Landsat images over a 27-year period to identify areas of “permanent change,” where soil has been paved over for parking lots or other concrete structures.NUCI results act as a red flag for FEMA, helping the agency focus its mapping efforts and budget. But if maps identify a high risk of floods for a certain community, residents can take action, including elevating houses, building flood barricades, and more. || ", "hits": 74 }, { "id": 11490, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11490/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-02-26T16:00:00-05:00", "title": "Landsat 8 Celebrates First Year in Orbit", "description": "On Feb. 11, 2013, Landsat 8 launched into Earth orbit, riding on an Atlas V rocket. Weighing 6,133 pounds, Landsat 8 is the eigth satellite in the long-running Landsat program, jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. At 16 feet tall, with a 32 foot long solar array, Landsat 8 orbits Earth at an altitude of 438 miles, moving at a speed of 16,760 miles per hour. It takes 99 minutes to complete one orbit, with about 14.5 orbits each day. There have been 5,319 orbits in the first year of Landsat 8's mission. It takes 16 days to build a complete scan of the globe, and on the 17th day the orbit cycle begins again.Between the two instruments on board, Landsat 8 records data in 11 separate wavelength regions spanning visible, infrared, and thermal radiation. The data is transmitted several times a day to the USGS Earth Resources and Observation Science Center in Sioux Falls, SD, where it is added to the archive of Landsat data stretching back to 1972. In its first year, users have downloaded 1,322,969 scenes of Landsat 8 data from the USGS.Landsat 8 continues the decades-long Landsat record of Earth's land surface at a scale where the impacts of humans and nature can be detected and monitored over time. Every continent, every season, every year, at a resolution that can distinguish an area the size of a baseball field. With help from Landsat we can monitor the cultivation of our food crops, quantify our precious water resources as they ebb and flow, and track deforestation globally. Landsat data constitute a key ingredient in decision making for agriculture, climate research, disaster mitigation, ecosystems, forestry, human health, urban growth, and water management. || ", "hits": 117 }, { "id": 11491, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11491/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-02-24T19:00:00-05:00", "title": "Landsat 8 Onion Skin", "description": "Landsat satellites circle the globe every 99 minutes, collecting data about the land surfaces passing underneath. After 16 days, the Landsat satellite has passed over every spot on the globe, and recorded data in 11 different wavelength regions. The individual wavelength bands can be combined into color images, with different combinations of the 11 bands revealing different information about the condition of the land cover.The data for this video was collected by Landsat 5 on November 10, 2011. || ", "hits": 51 }, { "id": 11481, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11481/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-02-11T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Landsat Orbit Swath", "description": "This visualization of the orbit of Landsat 8 is narrated by Jim Irons, LDCM Project Scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.As a Landsat satellite flies over the surface of the Earth the instruments aboard the satellite are able to view a swath 185 kilometers wide and collect images along that swath as the satellite proceeds through its orbit. The spacecraft travels at approximately 4.7 miles per second. The satellite travels from north to south while it's over the sunlit portion of the Earth, and travels south to north over the dark side of the Earth. One orbit takes about 99 minutes, so that's about approximately 15 orbits in a 24 hour period. The orbit's maintained such that after 16 days, the entire surface of the Earth has come within view of the Landsat instruments, while sunlit, and then on day 17 the first ground path is repeated. So we get to view the entire surface once every 16 days. || ", "hits": 139 }, { "id": 11458, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11458/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-01-22T22:00:00-05:00", "title": "Landsat Downloads and Use Data", "description": "Graph showing the total number of Landsat scenes downloaded since October 1, 2008, when the USGS instituted their policy to distribute Landsat data for free. In the five years since, over 11 million scenes have been downloaded from the Landsat archive. || ", "hits": 53 }, { "id": 11433, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11433/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-12-16T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Landsat Program Timeline", "description": "The Landsat program offers the longest continuous global record of the Earth’s surface; it continues to deliver visually stunning and scientifically valuable images of our planet. This short video highlights Landsat’s many benefits to society.In 1975, NASA Administrator Dr. James Fletcher predicted that if one space age development would save the world, it would be Landsat and its successor satellites. Since the early 1970s, Landsat has continuously and consistently archived images of Earth; this unparalleled data archive gives scientist the ability to assess changes in Earth’s landscape.For over 40 years, the Landsat program has collected spectral information from Earth’s surface, creating a historical archive unmatched in quality, detail, coverage, and length.“It was the granddaddy of them all, as far as starting the trend of repetitive, calibrated observations of the Earth at a spatial resolution where one can detect man’s interaction with the environment,” Dr. Darrel Williams, the Landsat 7 Project Scientist, states about Landsat.Landsat sensors have a moderate spatial-resolution. You cannot see individual houses on a Landsat image, but you can see large man-made objects such as highways. This is an important spatial resolution because it is coarse enough for global coverage, yet detailed enough to characterize human-scale processes such as urban growth, deforestation, agriculture water use, and more. || ", "hits": 428 }, { "id": 11315, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11315/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-07-22T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Landsat and Agriculture", "description": "The Landsat program has been running since 1972, having successfully launched 7 satellites into orbit. (Landsat 6, owned by a private company, failed at launch and never reached orbit.) 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NASA and the U.S. Department of the Interior through the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) jointly manage Landsat, and the USGS preserves a 40-year archive of Landsat images that is freely available data over the Internet. || ", "hits": 94 }, { "id": 11290, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11290/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-05-23T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Pivot Irrigation in Saudi Arabia", "description": "Saudi Arabia is drilling for a resource possibly more precious than oil.Over the last 24 years, it has tapped hidden reserves of water to grow wheat and other crops in the Syrian Desert. This time series of data shows images acquired by three different Landsat satellites operated by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey.The green fields that dot the desert draw on water that in part was trapped during the last Ice Age. In addition to rainwater that fell over several hundred thousand years, this fossil water filled aquifers that are now buried deep under the desert's shifting sands.Saudi Arabia reaches these underground rivers and lakes by drilling through the desert floor, directly irrigating the fields with a circular sprinkler system. This technique is called center-pivot irrigation.Because rainfall in this area is now only a few centimeters (about one inch) each year, water here is a non-renewable resource. Although no one knows how much water is beneath the desert, hydrologists estimate it will only be economical to pump water for about 50 years.In this series of four Landsat images, the agricultural fields are about one kilometer (.62 miles) across. The images were created using reflected light from the short wave-infrared, near-infrared, and green portions of the electromagnetic spectrum (bands 7, 4, and 2 from Landsat 4 and 5 TM and Landsat 7 ETM+ sensors). Using this combination of wavelengths, healthy vegetation appears bright green while dry vegetation appears orange. Barren soil is a dark pink, and urban areas, like the town of Tubarjal at the top of each image, have a purple hue.Landsat 4 launched in 1982 and provided scientific data for 11 years until 1993. NASA launched Landsat 5 in 1984 and it ran a record-breaking 28 years, sending back what was likely its last data in 2011. Landsat 7 is still up and running; it was launched in 1999. The data from these and other Landsat satellites has been instrumental in increasing our understanding of forest health, storm damage, agricultural trends, urban growth, and many other ongoing changes to our land.NASA and the U.S. Department of the Interior through the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) jointly manage Landsat, and the USGS preserves a 40-year archive of Landsat images that is freely available data over the Internet. Download a still image showing four of the years: 1987, 1991, 2000, and 2012. || ", "hits": 302 }, { "id": 11249, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11249/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-05-15T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Landsat 8 Long Swath", "description": "After two months of on-orbit testing and calibration, Landsat 8 (previously called LDCM) fired its propulsion system on April 12, 2013, and ascended to its final orbit 438 miles (705 km) above Earth. The animation, made from scenes taken a week later on April 19, allows viewers to fly with the satellite from its final operating orbit. 56 continuous Landsat scenes from that orbit have been stitched together into a seamless view from Russia to South Africa. Orbiting at 16,800 mph (27,000 kph), Landsat 8 made this flight in just more than 20 minutes. The animation moves faster, covering 5,665 miles (9,117 kilometers) in nearly 16 minutes. You would have to be moving about 21,930 mph (35,290 kph) to get a similar view — only slightly slower than the Apollo astronauts who entered Earth's orbit from the moon at 25,000 mph (40,200 kph). We pan down the long swath of data from Landsat 8, starting in northern Russia, passing over the Caucasus Mountains, the Republic of Georgia, Armenia, Turkey (passing Lake Van), Iraq, and Saudi Arabia (the cities of Medina and Jeddah), crossing the Red Sea into Eritrea, Ethiopia, the Kenya-Uganda border and catching the eastern edge of Lake Victoria, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, a little bit of Mozambique, and ending in northern South Africa. || ", "hits": 59 }, { "id": 4076, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4076/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2013-05-15T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Landsat-8 Long Swath", "description": "Landsat-8 launched February 11th, 2013. This visualization shows one of the first full swaths of data taken on April 19th, 2013, only one week after Landsat-8 ascended to its final altitude of 438 miles (705 km). || ", "hits": 80 }, { "id": 11202, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11202/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-01-31T16:00:00-05:00", "title": "Monitoring Changes in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed", "description": "Landsat is a critical and invaluable tool for characterizing the landscape and mapping it over time. Landsat data provides a baseline of observations for science about how human activities on the land affect water quality, affect wildlife habitat, affect air quality. The satellite imagery covers the entire 64,000 square miles of the Chesapeake Bay watershed (spanning six states and the District of Columbia). Without it we wouldn't be able to really understand how sources of nutrients and sediment have changed and where they are in the Chesapeake Bay. The Landsat Program is a series of Earth-observing satellite missions jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. The narration in this video is by Peter Claggett, a research geographer with the U.S. Geological Survey's Eastern Geographic Science Center. He has worked at the Chesapeake Bay Program Office since 2002, where he leads the Land Data Team that conducts research on land change characterization, analysis, and modeling in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. The audio was adapted from a radio interview with EarthSky.org. || ", "hits": 34 }, { "id": 11035, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11035/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-01-10T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Landsat 8 Video File", "description": "The Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) is a collaboration between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey that will continue the Landsat Program's 40-year data record of monitoring Earth's landscapes from space. LDCM will expand and improve on that record with observations that advance a wide range of Earth sciences and contribute to the management of agriculture, water and forest resources.The LDCM observatory was successfully launched aboard an Atlas V-401 rocket on February 11, 2013, from Vandenberg Air Force Base. The operation of the satellite will be handed over to the U.S. Geological Survey on May 30, 2013. || ", "hits": 23 }, { "id": 11177, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11177/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-01-10T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "LDCM Launch Animation", "description": "The Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) is a collaboration between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey that will continue the Landsat Program's 40-year data record of monitoring Earth's landscapes from space. LDCM will expand and improve on that record with observations that advance a wide range of Earth sciences and contribute to the management of agriculture, water and forest resources.The Landsat Program is a series of Earth-observing satellite missions jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. The first Landsat satellite launched in 1972 and the next satellite in the series, the Landsat Data Continuity Mission — LDCM, is scheduled to launch on February 11, 2013.LDCM will launch from Vandenburg Air Force Base using an Atlas V-401 rocket from ULA. || ", "hits": 19 }, { "id": 11166, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11166/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-01-10T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Landsat 8 Overview", "description": "The Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) is a collaboration between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey that will continue the Landsat Program's 40-year data record of monitoring Earth's landscapes from space. LDCM will expand and improve on that record with observations that advance a wide range of Earth sciences and contribute to the management of agriculture, water and forest resources.The Landsat Program is a series of Earth-observing satellite missions jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. The first Landsat satellite launched in 1972 and the next satellite in the series, the Landsat Data Continuity Mission — LDCM, is scheduled to launch on February 11, 2013 || ", "hits": 41 }, { "id": 4012, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4012/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-12-07T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Life Histories from Landsat: 25 Years in the Pacific Northwest Forest — North/South Tour", "description": "This visualization shows a sequence of Landsat-based data in the Pacific Northwest. There is one data set for each year representing an aggregate of the approximate peak of the growing season (around August). The data was created using a sophisticated algorithm called LandTrendr. LandTrendr analyzes 'stacks' of Landsat scenes, looking for statistical trends in the data and filtering out noise. The algorithm evaluated data from more than 1,800 Landsat Thematic Mapper images, nearly 1 Terabyte of raw imagery, to define the life histories of each of more than 336 million pixels on the landscape. The resulting trends identify periods of stability and change that are displayed as colors.In these false color images, the colors represent types of land; for example, blue areas are forests; orange/yellow areas are agriculture; and, purple areas are urban. Each 'stack' is representative of a Landsat scene. There are 22 stacks stitched together to cover most of the U.S. Pacific Northwest. This processed data is used for science, natural resource management, and education.We move in to the southwest corner of the data set near Redwood National Park and proceed on a slow tour through a portion of the data set. Time loops from 1984 through 2011 as we move. We move over to Mount Shasta, then up the Cascade Range, passing Crater Lake National Park, the Three Sisters, Mount Jefferson, Mount Hood, Mount Saint Helens, Mount Adams, Mount Rainier, Mount Baker, and the North Cascades National Park. Next we move west over Seattle and pass over Olympic National Park, then we head back south down the Willamette Valley back to Redwood National Park.Don't miss this related narrated visualization || ", "hits": 130 }, { "id": 4013, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4013/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-12-07T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Life Histories from Landsat: 25 Years in the Pacific Northwest Forest", "description": "This visualization shows a sequence of Landsat-based data in the Pacific Northwest. There is one data set for each year representing an aggregate of the approximate peak of the growing season (around August). The data was created using a sophisticated algorithm called LandTrendr. LandTrendr analyzes 'stacks' of Landsat scenes, looking for statistical trends in the data and filtering out noise. The algorithm evaluated data from more than 1,800 Landsat Thematic Mapper images, nearly 1 Terabyte of raw imagery, to define the life histories of each of more than 336 million pixels on the landscape. The resulting trends identify periods of stability and change that are displayed as colors.In these false color images, the colors represent types of land; for example, blue areas are forests; orange/yellow areas are agriculture; and, purple areas are urban. Each 'stack' is representative of a Landsat scene. There are 22 stacks stitched together to cover most of the U.S. Pacific Northwest. This processed data is used for science, natural resource management, and education.The visualization zooms into the Portland area showing different types of land such as agricultural, urban, and forests. We move south to a region that was evergreen forest for a number of years (blue), then was clear cut in 1999 (orange), then began to regrow (yellow). A graph shows the trajectories for a particular location in the clearcut as the years repeat. The dots represent the original data from Landsat; and, the line represents LandTrendr analysis. We move over to the Three Sisters region to show an area of pine forest that becomes infested with bark beetles in 2004. Next, we move to the southern foothills of Mount Hood where a budworm infestation is in progress; around 1991, the worms move on to another area and shrubs start to regrow. Next wemove to the east side of Mount Rainier National Park to see another budworm outbreak followed by shrub regrowth. Finally, we move to the west of Mount Rainier where we can see widespread clear cutting outside of the park, but no clear cutting inside the protected park land.Don't miss this related tour of the region. || ", "hits": 44 }, { "id": 11097, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11097/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-09-27T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Landsat: Making a Difference, One User At A Time", "description": "The Landsat Data Continuity Mission will continue the legacy of the 40-year Landsat program. This video examines two uses of Landsat data to monitor agriculture. Both wineries and timber companies rely on Landsat data to check whether their crops are getting enough (or too much) water and fertilizer.For complete transcript, click here. || G2012-071_Landsat_Users_Ag_MASTER_ipod_lg.01727_print.jpg (1024x576) [21.4 KB] || G2012-071_Landsat_Users_Ag_MASTER_ipod_lg_web.png (320x180) [19.5 KB] || G2012-071_Landsat_Users_Ag_MASTER_ipod_lg_thm.png (80x40) [2.4 KB] || G2012-071_Landsat_Users_Ag_MASTER_720x480.webmhd.webm (960x540) [53.6 MB] || G2012-071_Landsat_Users_Ag_MASTER_ipod_lg.m4v (640x360) [42.5 MB] || G2012-071_Landsat_Users_Ag_MASTER_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [22.8 MB] || GSFC_20120927_Landsat_m11097_Users_Ag.en_US.srt [4.5 KB] || GSFC_20120927_Landsat_m11097_Users_Ag.en_US.vtt [4.3 KB] || G2012-071_Landsat_Users_Ag_MASTER_youtube_hq.mov (1280x720) [133.3 MB] || G2012-071_Landsat_Users_Ag_MASTER_appletv.m4v (960x540) [104.9 MB] || G2012-071_Landsat_Users_Ag_MASTER_1280x720.wmv (1280x720) [120.8 MB] || G2012-071_Landsat_Users_Ag_MASTER_prores.mov (1280x720) [3.5 GB] || G2012-071_Landsat_Users_Ag_MASTER.mov (640x360) [101.6 MB] || G2012-071_Landsat_Users_Ag_MASTER_720x480.wmv (720x480) [112.3 MB] || G2012-071_Landsat_Users_Ag_MASTER_youtube_hq.hwshow [65 bytes] || ", "hits": 88 }, { "id": 11052, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11052/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-07-23T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Best of \"Earth As Art\" - Top Five", "description": "A series of Landsat satellites have surveyed the Earth's surface since 1972. In that time, Landsat data have become a vital reference worldwide, used for understanding scientific issues related to land use and natural resources. However, some Landsat images are simply striking to look at - presenting spectacular views of mountains and valleys, forests and farms. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Landsat, the US Geological Survey and NASA asked for your help in selecting the top five Earth As Art images. || ", "hits": 65 }, { "id": 11040, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11040/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-07-23T01:00:00-04:00", "title": "Trinity County, California", "description": "Forest fires and logging are the two main drivers of change in this area within Trinity National Forest in northern California. Roger Eckart and his siblings bought a grandfathered-in piece of private land within the forest in 1972, and so together the Eckart family and the Landsat program have observed changes in the forest for over 40 years. || ", "hits": 36 }, { "id": 11029, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11029/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-07-23T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Yellowstone Burn Recovery", "description": "A combination of lightning, drought and human activity caused fires to scorch more than one-third of Yellowstone National Park in the summer of 1988. Within a year, burn scars cast a sharp outline on the 793,880 acres affected by fire, distinguishing wide sections of recovering forest, meadows, grasslands and wetlands from unburned areas of the park. After more than two decades, satellite instruments can still detect these scars from space.In the time-lapse video below, a series of false-color images collected by USGS-NASA Landsat satellites from 1987 to 2018 show the burning and gradual regeneration of Yellowstone's forests following the 1988 fire season. Watch as burn scars (dark red) quickly replace large expanses of healthy green vegetation (dark green) by 1989. Notice how the scars slowly fade over time as new vegetation begins to grow and heal the landscape.Landsat Project Scientist Jeff Masek has been studying the recovery of the forest after the 1988 Yellowstone fires. In the video below, he talks about how Landsat satellites detect the burn scars from space and distinguish them from healthy, un-burned forest and from new growth. || ", "hits": 234 }, { "id": 11030, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11030/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-07-23T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Columbia Glacier, Alaska, 1986-2011", "description": "The Columbia Glacier in Alaska is one of many vanishing around the world. Glacier retreat is one of the most direct and understandable effects of climate change. The consequences of the decline in alpine glaciers include contributing to global sea level rise. || ", "hits": 70 }, { "id": 11028, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11028/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-06-28T16:00:00-04:00", "title": "Rebuilding Poplar Island", "description": "Poplar Island is being rebuilt by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers using dredged mud from the Baltimore Harbor which lies about 30 miles (about 48 kilometers) north of the island. Reconstruction of the island began in 1998 with the erection of dikes to contain the mud.The growing island is a wildlife sanctuary, a hatchery for hundreds of diamondback terrapins and home to about 170 different species of birds including terns and bald eagles. NASA and the U.S. Department of the Interior through the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) jointly manage Landsat. The USGS preserves the archive of Landsat images and distributes all of the 40-years of Landsat data free over the Internet. || ", "hits": 30 }, { "id": 10967, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10967/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-04-30T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Dalhart, Texas 1972-2011", "description": "A water-rich polka dot pattern takes over the traditional rectangular patchwork of fields in this 40 year sequence of Landsat images showing the dry Texas panhandle near the town of Dalhart. In this series, vegetation appears red and the bare soil of fallow fields or sparsely vegetated grasslands appear white to green. The blue-gray X near the center of the images marks the town of Dalhart. || ", "hits": 25 }, { "id": 10721, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10721/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-03-05T17:00:00-05:00", "title": "Las Vegas, 1972-2021", "description": "Timelapse animation of Lake Mead and the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, from 1972-2021, as captured by Landsat sensors. The images are false-color, showing healthy vegetation in red. || Las_Vegas-wide-2021_print.jpg (1024x576) [226.8 KB] || Las_Vegas-wide-2021_searchweb.png (320x180) [119.1 KB] || Las_Vegas-wide-2021_thm.png (80x40) [7.7 KB] || Las_Vegas_1972-2021-tw.mp4 (1920x1080) [64.7 MB] || Las_Vegas-wide-2021.tif (1920x1080) [7.9 MB] || Las_Vegas_1972-2021-tw.webm (1920x1080) [8.0 MB] || Las_Vegas_1972-2021-yt.mp4 (1920x1080) [129.5 MB] || Las_Vegas_1972-2021.mov (1920x1080) [2.3 GB] || ", "hits": 345 }, { "id": 10914, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10914/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-02-14T05:00:00-05:00", "title": "TIRS - the Thermal Infrared Sensor on LDCM", "description": "The Thermal InfraRed Sensor (TIRS) is one of the instruments on the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite. It will continue the archive of thermal imaging and support emerging applications such as evapotranspiration rate measurements for water management. TIRS is being built by NASA GSFC and has a three-year design life.In February 2012, TIRS was shipped from GSFC to Orbital Sciences Corporation in Gilbert, Arizona to be integrated with the LDCM spacecraft.TIRS operates in a pushbroom mode to create images in two IR bands, centered at 10.8 and 12.0 microns, over a 185 km swath with a 100 m spatial resolution. The TIRS design includes cryogenically-cooled QWIP detector arrays and a steerable mirror to choose among 3 views: nadir for Earth observations, on-board warm blackbody for calibration, and deep space for calibration. The TIRS data will be registered to the OLI data to create radiometrically, geometrically, and terrain-corrected 12-bit LDCM data products. || ", "hits": 53 }, { "id": 10812, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10812/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-10-05T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Landsat 8 (aka LDCM) Spacecraft Animations and Still Images", "description": "Landsat 8 (formerly known as LDCM, the Landsat Data Continuity Mission), a collaboration between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, will provide moderate-resolution (15 meter - 100 meter, depending on spectral frequency) measurements of the Earth's terrestrial and polar regions in the visible, near-infrared, short wave infrared, and thermal infrared. There are two instruments on the spacecraft, the Thermal InfraRed Sensor (TIRS) and the Operational Land Imager (OLI). Landsat 8 continues the nearly 50-year long Landsat land imaging data set. In addition to widespread routine use for land use planning and monitoring on regional to local scales, support of disaster response and evaluations, and water use monitoring, Landsat 8 measurements directly serve NASA research in the focus areas of climate, carbon cycle, ecosystems, water cycle, biogeochemistry, and Earth surface/interior. || ", "hits": 130 }, { "id": 10774, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10774/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-05-26T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Landsat Observes Barrier Islands", "description": "A survey of barrier islands published in 2011 in the Journal of Coastal Research offers the most thorough assessment to date of the thousands of small islands that hug the coasts of the world's landmasses. The study, led by Matthew Stutz of Meredith College and Orrin Pilkey of Duke University, raises new questions about how the unique islands form and evolve over time - and how they may fare as the climate changes and sea level rises. It was based on a global collection of satellite images as well as information from topographic and navigational charts. Landsat 7 acquired the images around 2000, but a private company mosaicked them as part of an effort funded by NASA and the United States Geological Survey. || Barrier_Islands_Survey_ipod_sm.00552_print.jpg (1024x768) [85.4 KB] || Barrier_Islands_Survey_ipod_sm_web.png (320x240) [113.1 KB] || Barrier_Islands_Survey_ipod_sm_thm.png (80x40) [16.3 KB] || Barrier_Islands_Survey_ipod_sm_searchweb.png (320x180) [86.4 KB] || Barrier_Islands_Survey_youtube_hq.mov (1280x720) [78.3 MB] || Barrier_Islands_Survey_appletv.m4v (960x540) [62.8 MB] || Barrier_Islands_Survey.wmv (1280x720) [70.7 MB] || Barrier_Islands_Survey_prores.mov (1280x720) [2.2 GB] || Barrier_Islands_Survey_appletv.webmhd.webm (960x540) [28.9 MB] || Barrier_Islands_Survey.mov (640x360) [59.1 MB] || Barrier_Islands_Survey_ipod_lg.m4v (640x360) [24.9 MB] || GSFC_20110526_Barrier_m10774_Islands.en_US.vtt [42 bytes] || Barrier_Islands_Survey_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [13.2 MB] || ", "hits": 27 }, { "id": 10753, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10753/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-05-13T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Zoom in to Smith Island, MD", "description": "As sea levels rise, islands in the Chesapeake Bay are disappearing under water. || ", "hits": 47 }, { "id": 10416, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10416/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-04-07T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Guided Tour of LIMA Flyover", "description": "In 2007, more than 1,100 Landsat 7 images were used to create the first ever, high-resolution, true color map of Antarctica. The Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA) is a virtually cloud-free, 3-D view of Antarctica's frozen landscape produced by NASA, working with the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Geological Survey and the British Antarctic Survey.Visualizers stitched together Landsat 7 satellite imagery acquired in 1999 and 2001 with a digital elevation model and field data measurements. || ", "hits": 113 }, { "id": 3433, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3433/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2007-06-11T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Rise of the Three Gorges Dam", "description": "Some call it the eighth wonder of world; others say it's the next Great Wall of China. Upon completion in 2009, the Three Gorges Dam will be the world's largest hydroelectric power generator. One of the few man-made structures so enormous that it's actually visible to the naked eye from space, NASA's Landsat satellite has had a closer look, providing detailed, vivid views of the dam since its inception in 1994. The dam is built along the Yangtze River, the third largest in the world, stretching more than 3,900 miles across China before reaching its mouth near Shanghai. Historically, the river has been prone to massive flooding, overflowing its banks about once every ten years. During the 20th century alone, Chinese authorities estimate that some 300,000 people were killed from Yangtze River floods. The dam is designed to greatly improve flood control on the river and protect the 15 million people and 3.7 million acres of farmland in the lower Yangtze flood plains. Observations from the NASA-built Landsat satellites provide an overview of the dam's construction. The earliest data set, from 1987, shows the region prior to start of construction. By 2000, construction along each riverbank was underway, but sediment-filled water still flowed through a narrow channel near the river's south bank. The 2004 data shows development of the main wall and the partial filling of the reservoir, including numerous side canyons. By mid-2006, construction of the main wall was completed and a reservoir more than 2 miles (3 kilometers) across had filled just upstream of the dam. To read more about the Three Gorges Dam, please click here. This animation was designed in three parts: Part 1: The first part of this animation zooms in to the Three Gorges Dam and travels backward and forward through time emphasizing the dam construction and filling of the reservoir. This animation then continues seemlessly into Part 2. Part 2: Starting where Part 1 leaves off, the camera flies up the 2006 data showing the high water levels that have already filled the multiple gorges upstream. Part 3: Identical to Part 2, except showing the 1987 data prior to the dam construction. || ", "hits": 1010 } ] }