The Landsat mission is a joint endeavor between NASA and the United States Geological Survey. It is more than 50 years old.
This week, NASA Goddard released a new video that highlights the Landsat program’s achievements in 2023. A joint mission between NASA and the United States Geological Survey , satellite imagers have been orbiting Earth since Landsat 1 was launched in July 1972.
In the new highlight video, NASA shows decades of progression and changes across different regions, like sea level changes in the Aral sea from 1984 to 2022, deforestation and urban sprawl in Nyapyitaw, Myanmar over the same period, and how many lakes around the world have increased and decreased in size.
This is especially important in regions where there may not be accessible data concerning mining activity. The mining is impossible to miss when poring over Landsat data. Not every large-scale environmental change is due to human activity, either. While human behavior’s connection to weather patterns is not quite fully understood yet, it’s evident that there are natural shifts from year to year. Landsat can monitor these as well.
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