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The Landsat Data Continuity Mission’s (LDCM) thermal infrared sensor (TIRS) has been completed and shipped to Orbital Sciences for integration into the rest of the satellite. This TIRS sensor will measure and monitor water evaporation and transpiration over Earth’s land surface by measuring radiation emitted in two thermal bands. The sensor resolution is 100 meters, [...]
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The USGS reports today that the 27-year-old Landsat 5 Earth observation satellite has a degrading electronic component that is preventing the satellite from transmitting images to ground stations. The fluctuating performance of this component has been monitored over the past few months and over the last ten days the data downlink capacity has dramatically worsened. [...]
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This morning at the ASPRS annual conference Esri released an online Landsat satellite imagery viewer called ChangeMatters along with online imagery services to access multi-temporal and multi-spectral worldwide Landsat data. The online ChangeMatters imagery viewer is accompanied by a series of tutorial videos to walk you through all that is offered, with details on how [...]
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The newly-appointed director of the U.S. Geological Survey, Dr. Marcia McNutt, will be delivering a message about free and easily accessible U.S. satellite data to the Group on Earth Observations (GEO-VI) meeting this week. The free availability of Landsat satellite data contributes to a shared vision of the challenges that are facing our planet. “Our [...]
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Kass Green, president of Kass Green & Associates and former president of Space Imaging Solutions, spoke yesterday at the Pecora Remote Sensing Symposium about the 30 years of national land imaging success that is still in jeopardy without action from the incoming administration. Green indicated that while the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LCDM) is now [...]
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The U.S. Secretary of Interior, Dirk Kempthorne, spoke today at ESRI’s Senior Executive Seminar. Kempthorne expressed an understanding and appreciation of the role of geospatial technology that was extremely encouraging, including details about the role that geospatial technology played in his decision to protect the polar bear. The secretary referred to the triumph of the [...]
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NASA has awarded a $3.29 million five-year contract to South Dakota State University’s Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence to make Landsat satellite data easier to use and access via the Internet. Landsat images became free of charge this year, but the imagery still requires an expert to process and access the data. The grant [...]
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