http://gallery.usgs.gov/images/logos/usgs_only.jpg USGS Multimedia Gallery Collection for: Satellite Images http://gallery.usgs.gov/ en-us OC_Web@usgs.gov (Office of Communications Web Group) http://gallery.usgs.gov/images/USGS.gif USGS http://gallery.usgs.gov/ <![CDATA[Landsat 8]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/02_04_2013_hlc5FRq11Y_02_04_2013_0 Artist's rendering of Landsat Data Continuity Mission showing the calibration ports of the instruments (TIRS and OLI).

Visit the Landsat Missions website to learn more about the landsat program.

]]> <![CDATA[Texas Orthorectified Landsat State Mosaic]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/02_04_2013_m62Tlx8KJe_02_04_2013_0 This image was created using Tri-Decadal Global Landsat Orthorectified ETM+ Pan-Sharpened data, and draped with National Elevation Dataset (NED) data.

Visit the Landsat Missions website to learn more about Landsat.

]]> <![CDATA[Ishinomaki - Before and After]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/01_31_2013_vaq1THf66N_01_31_2013_0 A massive earthquake, and subsequent tsunami, struck the northeast coast of Japan on Friday, March 11, 2011. The USGS calculated the magnitude of the earthquake as a 9.0, the fourth largest ever recorded. The tsunami that followed was over 10 meters high in places. Landsat imagery, acquired on March 20, recorded the impact of the tsunami on the city of Ishinomaki, Japan.

]]> <![CDATA[Memorial Stadium, University of Nebraska Cornhuskers]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/01_29_2013_sXNa6EDqp3_01_29_2013_0 This image is a High Resolution Orthoimagery, 6-inch spatial resolution, Lancaster County Dataset, taken in April 2007. High Resolution Orthoimagery looks like a photograph but any distortions caused by the tilt of the camera or topography of the land have been removed, so orthoimages are geospatially accurate and can be used as maps.

Visit the National Map to find more aerial imagery.

Visit the Land Remote Sensing Program Gallery to browse through other image collections.

]]> <![CDATA[Mount St. Helens Postage Stamp]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/09_28_2012_in1Pht6GFb_09_28_2012_0 Mount St. Helens and surrounding area recover from the historic May 1980 eruption. Shades of white and gray indicate still-bare slopes that were swept by volcanic flows; light green areas at the top of the photo show regrowth of vegetation in devastated areas; dark green areas at the bottom were unaffected by the eruption.

]]> <![CDATA[Earthscapes Commemorative Stamp Series, U.S. Postal Service]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/09_28_2012_e38Lcp5BBv_09_28_2012_0 Two images from the Landsat 7 satellite were included in the U.S Post Office series of 15 Earthscapes Forever stamps released Oct. 1, 2012.

]]> <![CDATA[Center-pivot irrigation as US Postage Stamp]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/09_28_2012_e38Lcp5BBv_09_28_2012_1 Garden City, KS, is at the heart of the American breadbasket where farmers grow corn, wheat and sorghum and raise cattle. Instead of relying on the rain, Garden City farmers use low-cost groundwater pumps and a technique called "center-pivot irrigation" to essentially mine for water locked deep underground. 

 

]]> <![CDATA[Bird's Foot]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/06_15_2012_x16Fwj3VUq_06_15_2012_0 A satellite image of the Gulf of Mexico and coastline.

]]> <![CDATA[Comparison of Aerial Photo and LiDAR Image]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/05_21_2012_dhx3Bnm00U_05_21_2012_0 Comparison of color aerial photography with airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) imagery in an area west of Lake Tahoe, California. (A) Color aerial orthophoto for part of range front along eastern base of Mt. Tallac with geomorphic features obscured by dense forest cover. (B) Same scene, first-return LiDAR imagery. (C) Same scene, last-return (bare-earth) LiDAR imagery showing range-front fault scarp (between white arrows) cutting colluvium, alluvium, and Tioga moraine.

 

]]> <![CDATA[Lake Tahoe Faults, Shaded Relief Map]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/05_21_2012_dhx3Bnm00U_05_21_2012_1 Shaded relief map of western part of the Lake Tahoe basin, California. Faults lines are dashed where approximately located, dotted where concealed, bar and ball on downthrown side. Heavier line weight shows principal range-front fault strands of the Tahoe-Sierra frontal fault zone (TSFFZ). Opaque white boxes indicate approximate segment boundaries and right steps in range front separating principal fault strands. EB— Emerald Bay; ELP—Ellis Peak; EP—Echo Peak; MT—Mt. Tallac; RP—Rubicon Peak; TW—Twin Peaks

]]> <![CDATA[Landsat Mosaic of the Yukon River Basin ]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/12_20_2011_f30Mdp5CCw_12_20_2011_0 Michelle A. Bouchard, John L. Dwyer and Brian Granneman.

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #GC51A-0708

Landsat data from the Global Land Survey (GLS) dataset for year 2000 was mosaicked to form a Yukon River Basin image map that is referenced to a geodetic base. It was produced from 65 Landsat-7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) images collected from 1999-2002. Two products were created: (1) a geographically referenced database containing all seven of the spectral bands for the individual scenes and (2) a 3-band (shortwave infrared, near-infrared, and green - 7,4,2) radiometrically normalized shaded relief image map using the U.S. Geological Survey National Elevation Dataset and Canadian Digital Elevation Data from Natural Resources Canada. The science data product will facilitate studies to map the extent of snow, ice and surface water at a basin-wide scale. Focused studies on snow/ice transitions for selected glaciers will be conducted in order to establish accumulation ratios for use in future monitoring. The mosaic also shows the complex patterns of wildfires in the interior forests and the diversity of ecosystems throughout the basin. The shaded relief product image mosaic is a reference map for reconnaissance studies as well as a geographic framework within which to spatially integrate project-wide data and information.

 

]]> <![CDATA[Landsat Photo: Wallow Fire, Arizona]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/06_09_2011_swn0QEc55K_06_09_2011_0

This Landsat imagery was taken on June 7, 2011. Path/Row: 35/36 and 37 Lat/Long: 33.820/-109.330 

]]> <![CDATA[Mississippi River near Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/05_13_2011_c28Ja44YYt_05_13_2011_0 The 2006 image (left) show the river in a more normal state, while the 2011 image (right) shows the massive flooding. The dark blue tones represent water or flooded areas, the light green is cleared fields, and light tones are clouds.

Recent Landsat satellite data captured by the U.S. Geological Survey and NASA on May 10 show the major flooding of the Mississippi River along the state borders of Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, and Arkansas as seen from 438 miles above the Earth.

]]> <![CDATA[Mississippi River near Memphis, Tenn. ]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/05_13_2011_c28Ja44YYt_05_13_2011_1 The 2006 image (left) show the river in a more normal state, while the 2011 image (right) shows the massive flooding. The dark blue tones represent water or flooded areas, the light green is cleared fields, and light tones are clouds.

Recent Landsat satellite data captured by the U.S. Geological Survey and NASA on May 10 show the major flooding of the Mississippi River around Memphis, Tenn. as seen from 438 miles above the Earth.

]]> <![CDATA[Chesapeake Bay - Landsat]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/03_08_2010_bFVi0MLyx6_03_08_2010_0