When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. More than a year after a government land remote sensing satellite was crippled by technical ...

Rochester Institute of Technology researchers have solved a problem nagging NASA’s Landsat 8 Earth-sensing satellite. Stray light in the thermal infrared sensor, or TIRS, reduces accurate temperature ...

WASHINGTON — Images from Landsat satellites provided free to the public by the Department of the Interior’s U.S. Geological Survey were the starting points for “a new breakthrough” reported today by ...

We recently discovered Snapsat, a website dedicated to making it easier to obtain processed Landsat imagery. In March last year, Amazon announced the availability of Landsat data on Amazon Web ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Mapping technology giant ESRI has created a new Web-based tool to provide access to 30 years of global Landsat satellite imagery and enable users to identify changes in specific ...

[ Update: We have updated the KML file with more stable animations and the ability to zoom in and out and pan. See this post for more details. ] Last week we created a KML file to easily preview the ...

Landsat 9 has opened its eyes. The next-generation Earth-observation satellite, which launched on Sept. 27, snapped its first photos of our planet on Oct. 31, NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS ...

As a former NASA Earth scientist, I keep a close eye on space-related activities of all types. In recent months, there has been quite the media buzz about space tourists being lofted into space (or ...

Google's one billion Maps users should start to see sharper and more detailed images of Earth after the search company sifted through nearly a petabyte of NASA's latest satellite imagery to find the ...