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A Legacy Continues with Landsat 9 Launch

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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Landsat Enables Mapping of Fire Histories Across Florida

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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Analysis of Updated USGS Database Finds Increase in America’s Lands and Waters Managed for Biodiversity

A U.S. Geological Survey analysis, completed in August 2021, found a 0.9% increase in the percent of national lands and water protected primarily for biodiversity since the database’s last major update in May 2016. This was one of the key findings of the Spatial Analysis and Statistics data summaries of the version 2.1 of Protected…
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Landsat Collection 2 U.S. Analysis Ready Data Now Available

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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Meet ESA BIC Lazio

This story is part of our new Story Series: Meet ESA Space Solutions Network. In this new series, we’re going to introduce you to the great teams across our Network that are using space to develop business applied in daily life. Curious about their highlights and advice? Read on. ESA Business Applications Read More

Earth Observation in iGEO2022 Irish Geology, Environmental & Ocean Sciences Early Career Symposium

We are happy to announce that iGEO Irish Geology, Environmental & Ocean Sciences Early Career Symposium is back and is being planned for June 2022. We are delighted to invite you to this event organized by early career geoscientists (ECGs) for ECGs is open to all ECGs working within academia, industry and government. This 2 day event…
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Registration is open: Copernicus4regions webinars in September-December 2021!

The Network of European Regions Using Space Technologies (NEREUS) in tandem with the European Commission and the European Space Agency is pleased to invite you to a series of Copernicus4regions webinars related to the Green Deal agenda!   Register here (link)!   In these 5 targeted webinars, representatives of regional administrations, public users, regional stakeholders,…
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Save the date: AI4Copernicus day on November 30th 2021

The Copernicus Relays of Belgium (i.e. Skywin, ISSeP, Spacebel and VITO) organises the second edition of the AI4Copernicus day on November 30th 2021.   The event is focused on Security and Defence and it will take place at the Royal Military Academy in Brussels will highlight the interaction between EO and AI for a safer…
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New MOOC to bring AI and Copernicus data together

New MOOC to bring AI and Copernicus data togetherAnnekatrien Debien Thu, 09/09/2021 – 13:52 Artificial intelligence (AI) plays an increasingly important part in our daily lives, whether it is providing us with our personalised social media feeds, online shopping or streaming movie suggestions, and it even powers the mapping apps that route us around traffic…
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Landsat 9: Dress Rehearsal of Launch Day Completed

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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