Archive: Landsat

Here is an interactive web application for creating time-lapses of annual Landsat imagery (from 1984 onward) for any location around the globe.

After much anticipation, USGS Landsat 9 products are now available. Download data via USGS EarthExplorer, Machine-to-Machine (M2M) API, and LandsatLook. Read more about it here.

Here's a walkthrough on how to turn the bands of Landsat 9 into a full-color pansharpened image, using blend modes in ArcGIS Pro.

This is an applied example of NDVI calculation from the red and NIR bands from a Landsat 8 image.

This video shows you how to use the STAC API Browser Plugin in QGIS to search for Sentinel-2 or Landsat images for an AOI and load the images as Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs (COGs).

Check out these resources by USGS explaining how different bands, or channels, of Landsat satellites can be useful for certain use-cases.

Learn how to perform time series change detection in ArcGIS Pro to investigate changes to the Amazon floodplain forests.

Check out this book for details, backstories, programmatic and technical information on Landsat.

Landsat has been collecting information about Earth since 1972. The USGS Landsat archive now spans 50 years with over 10.3 million scenes. Learn more about downloading Landsat data here.