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As any urban dweller who has lived through a heat wave knows, a shady tree can make all the difference. But what happens when there’s no shade available? A recent study in Nature Communications used NASA satellite data to identify…
Discover how Landsat data supports wildfire management, from spotting early fire risks to watching nature's recovery.
Warming global climate is changing the vegetation structure of forests in the far north. It’s a trend that will continue at least through the end of this century, according to NASA researchers. The change in forest structure could absorb more…
The research teams who help sustain the largest freshwater reserve in the world are developing a new tool to promote more resilient farming systems in Brazil. The goal is to help farmers better handle changes in the water cycle, deal…
Join us in celebrating these advances in space and environmental science, and stay tuned for what's on the horizon with Landsat in 2024.
Explore a few ways Landsat satellites lend us a hand when it comes to monitoring water quality.
STELLA is a handheld gizmo not much bigger than a smartphone, but at the press of a button, it can provide a numerical readout of the overall health of a plant it’s pointed at. It may sound like Star Trek’s…
Through the Integrated Rice Advisory System program, researchers use NASA and other satellite data to deliver information to Bangladeshi farmers about how much water they are using, how much they have, and how much their crops need.
Researchers are using NASA Earth observations to monitor impacts of beaver restoration on water availability in drought-prone ecosystems.
Landsat Next will fundamentally transform the breadth and depth of freely available actionable information