NASA's Earth-observing fleet of satellites provides a worldwide and unbiased view with standardized scientific data -- information crucial for tracking the health of the world's forests. Countries ...

Landsat quantifies visible, infrared, and thermal energy that is reflected or emitted from the Earth's surface. From these data specialists produce color-coded maps that depict and characterize ...

An international team of researchers working with imagery collected over a three-year period by NASA’s Landsat 7 satellite has pieced together what the agency says is the most geographically accurate ...

Google has updated the satellite imagery it uses in Google Maps to provide users with a more superior view of Earth from above. The new imagery comes from NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite, and combined with ...

Google Maps satellite image data from the previous Landsat 7Landsat 8 (Landsat No. 8), And it is increasingly becoming more refined. Google Lat Long: Keeping Earth up ...

The USGS has released a new satellite portrait of the nation that highlights how dramatically the American landscape has ...

Google announced yesterday that it has begun rolling out new high-definition satellite imagery of Earth to its Google Earth and Google Maps apps. The company said it was introducing a new cloud-free ...

Countries like Brazil are using data from NASA satellites to track and measure their forests in advance of a United Nations effort to reduce climate change by providing "carbon credits" for protected ...