USGS Multimedia Gallery for Set: Landsat

Landsat 8

unknown — Mon, 4 Feb 2013 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Texas Orthorectified Landsat State Mosaic

unknown — Mon, 4 Feb 2013 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Ishinomaki - Before and After

unknown — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Mount St. Helens Postage Stamp

custserv - at - usgs.gov (Landsat 5) — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Earthscapes Commemorative Stamp Series, U.S. Postal Service

custserv - at - usgs.gov (Landsat 7) — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Center-pivot irrigation as US Postage Stamp

custserv - at - usgs.gov (Landsat 7) — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Landsat Mosaic of the Yukon River Basin

unknown — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Landsat Photo: Wallow Fire, Arizona

unknown — Thu, 9 Jun 2011 00:00:00 EDT

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

Mississippi River near Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas

Landsat 5 — Fri, 13 May 2011 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Mississippi River near Memphis, Tenn.

Landsat 5 — Fri, 13 May 2011 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Chesapeake Bay - Landsat

unknown — Mon, 8 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT

Image of the Chesapeake Bay taken from Landsat satellite data.