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Near Real-Time Landsat Data Over USA
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GIS User shares the link to the EarthNow! project, providing near real-time Landsat data over USA. From the help: "EarthNow! displays data received from the Landsat 5 and Landsat 7 satellites. When a Landsat satellite passes within range of the ground station at the USGS Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS), image data are down linked and displayed in near-real time. When no satellites are within range, the most recent pass is displayed."
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Slashdot discuss a USGS announcement of the release of new high quality Landsat data on June 4. Their summary: "The US Geological Survey homepage is featuring an article about the upcoming release of select Landsat 7 image data (on June 4) at glovis.usgs.gov or earthexplorer.usgs.gov. This is to be a pilot project for a larger effort called the Landsat Data Continuity Mission, whose end result looks like a version of Google Earth using Landsat data. Seven Landsat satellites were launched over a period of 27 years, the last in 1999. More on Landsat can be found here on Wikipedia or here at the official NASA Page." From the announcement: "This Web-enabled distribution of new and recently acquired data is a pilot project for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM), currently projected for launch in 2011." See also previous story below about Landsat-8.
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