Landsat's Role for Chesapeake Bay 4.22.2008. Four hundred years after John Smith's famous surveying expedition, North America's largest estuary exhibits signs of stress and its once legendary seafood productivity has waned.	Landsat Helps Map Soil Carbon Flux 3.24.2008. The use of remote sensing products allows for the identification of soil and environmental attributes that are associated with each unique combination of planted crop.
Fire Prevention in Spain 1.31.2008. A group of European researchers have used Landsat data collected over a quarter of a century to evaluate fire management methods in Eastern Spain.	Map of Antarctica Lays Ground for New Discoveries 11.27.2007. The Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica, a virtually cloudless satellite view of Antarctica's frozen landscape, is expected to revolutionize Antarctic research.
Greeks Get Space-Based Help with Deadly Fires> 9.26.07 - Cleanup and rebuilding teams responding to the devastation across Greece caused by this summer's deadly fires are getting help from space.	Landsat and ASTER Provide Images of Alabaugh Canyon Fire to Emergency Responders 7.27.07 - Landsat helps in the rehabilitation effort of Alabaugh Canyon following the most destructive fire in Black Hills recent history.
Landsat Helps Rain Forest Protection Work in Peru 8.09.07 - A new regional study shows that land-use policies in Peru have been key to tempering rain forest degradation and destruction in that country.	Landsat Assess Impacts of Industrial Logging 6.08.07 - Monitoring the expansion of logging in last dense humid forest of Central Africa is not only important for biodiversity conservation but also for climatic change.
Landsat data show trawler "mudtrails" 5.31.07 - High- and mid-resolution remote sensing data are being used to better understand the global impact of the fishing industry's trawling practices.	Water & Landsat's Thermal Band 4.17.07 - Chronic water supply problems in many areas of the West are among the greatest challenges we face in the coming decades.
Landsat - Protecting the Price of Bread 4.02.07 - Did you know.... Landsat satellite data is behind the accurate global crop production estimates that enable such price stability.	Landsat Provides Evidence of Ancient Mega-Lake in Northern Darfur 3.29.07 - Topographic data from satellites reveal a now dry, ancient mega-lake in the Darfur province of northwestern Sudan.
Satellite Offers a Room With the Best View of Antarctica 3.07.07 - More than a thousand images from the Landsat 7 satellite woven together to create the most detailed, high-resolution map ever produced of Antarctica.	Landsat data Reports post-Katrina and Rita Land Change Estimates for Louisiana Coast 10.03.06 - Analysis of land change data from the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wetlands Research Center indicates that 217 square miles of Louisiana's coastal lands were transformed to water after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
NASA Satellite Data Helps Assess the Health of Florida's Coral Reef 10.03.06 - NASA satellite data was used to help monitor the health of Florida's coral reef as part of a field research effort completed this August and September.	Small-Scale Logging Leads to Clear-cutting in Amazon 8.01.2006 - A NASA-funded study has discovered an important indicator of rain forest vulnerability to clear-cutting in Brazil.
Coral Reef Images Key to New Global Survey 7.26.2006 - A first-of-its-kind survey of how well the world's coral reefs are being protected was made possible by a unique collection of Landsat 7 views from space.	Monitoring Ice Sheet Activity in Antarctica 4.06.2006 - With suitable Landsat imagery, researchers measure the motion of 70,000 points on the surface of Antarctica in just a few days.
Assessing Carbon Stocks 4.06.2006 - Landsat data are being used to study decadal trends in vegetation around the globe to support modeling of carbon fluxes to the atmosphere.	USDA uses Landsat to investigate crop fraud 4.06.2006 - Multi-million dollar insurance fraud in the USDA's crop insurance program has forced the government to investigate suspicious claims using Landsat data.
Mapping Coral Reefs 11.04.2004 - Researchers are using the Landsat satellite images to map the reefs of the world.	Tsunami Damage 1.11.2004 - Landsat imagery shows a small area along the Sumatran coast in Aceh province where the tsunami smashed its way ashore.

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