It’s 7 o’clock on a Tuesday morning. As you decide what kind of cereal to have, you accidentally splash a bit of almond milk onto your cotton pajama top. The last thing on your mind is a pair of satellites orbiting Earth over 400 miles away. And yet, those satellites are a part of your morning routine. They tell farmers how much water their almond trees need to thrive…
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Fire history metrics, in years, for natural pinelands in Florida. (Map courtesy of Casey Teske, Melanie Vanderhoof, Todd Hawbaker, Joe Noble, and John Hiers) The Florida Forest Service issues permits for an average of 2 million acres of prescribed burns each year. That’s 16 times the annual prescribed burn acreage in California, according to the California…
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C2 ARD are tiled, georegistered, top of atmosphere, and atmospherically corrected products defined in a common projection that make the Landsat archive more accessible, easier to analyze, and reduce the amount of time users spend on data processing for time-series analysis. Landsat C2 Level-1 data that are processed into Albers-projected Level-2 Surface Reflectance and Surface…
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Posted by United Launch Alliance on September 3, 2021 The Atlas V rocket undergoes WDR for the Landsat 9 mission. Photo by United Launch Alliance The Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) followed the tightly-scripted countdown sequence at Vandenberg Space Force Base’s Space Launch Complex-3 by retracting the Mobile Service Tower (MST) and fueling the Atlas V…
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