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Poplar Island
Rebuilding the Chesapeake's Poplar Island, 06.28.2012
Watch as Baltimore Harbor dredge spoils rebuild Poplar Island into a bird sanctuary.
Peter Claggett
Landsat sees Chesapeake Bay Changes, 06.19.2012
An EarthSky interview with Peter Claggett about how he uses Landsat data to monitor the Chesapeake Bay's health.
Texas crops
Landsat Satellites See Texas Crop Circles, 04.26.2012
A water-rich polka dot pattern takes over the traditional rectangular patchwork of fields in this 40 yr time series....
Las Vegas, 2010
What Doesn't Stay in Vegas? Sprawl
The city of Las Vegas, Nevada has undergone a massive growth spurt.
Forest
EarthSky Interview with Alan Belward: Tracking Changes to Earth's Forests from Space
Looking at land cover and land use on a global scale.
Parched landscape
EarthSky Interview with Martha Anderson
As water becomes more scarce, monitoring its use is more important than ever.
Stewart Udall at NASA Manned Space Center
An Idea That Worked
Learn more about the early history of the Landsat program and the USGS Landsat archive.
Ice breaking away from Antarctica
EarthSky Interview with Robert Bindschadler
Antarctica is changing and it matters to everybody on the planet...
Costa Rican Tropical Forest by J.J. Mosesso
Agreeing on Carbon, Relying on Landsat (EarthSky)
Landsat data may be used to verify deforestation rates used for important carbon trades.
U.S. southern forest
Landsat Backbone of Forest Monitoring (EarthSky)
Landsat satellite data really provide the backbone for the monitoring of forests that’s going on around the world.

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