Satellite Imagery

Landsat 5 Resumes Operations

January 31, 2006

Landsat 5 imaging operations were suspended in November of 2005 as a result of difficulties with power delivered by the solar array drive. These technical difficulties have been resolved and imaging has resumed. While USGS …

Orthorectified Landsat digital data now available from USGS

December 29, 2005

Select orthorectified Landsat data are available for free download from the Global Visualization Viewer (GloVis) and EarthExplorer websites.

Satellites Capture Watertown Tire Fire Smoke Plume

July 29, 2005

Smoke drifts over Milwaukee

Landsat 5 passes another milestone

March 1, 2004

Operational now beyond 20 years

Aerial and satellite photo options expanding

September 15, 2003

Over the past decade digital aerial images have become the basemap de rigueur for a geographic information system (GIS).

ASPRS seeks Interior Dept. support of Landsat 7

August 4, 2003

wants data collection despite equipment problems

Landsat instrument in trouble?

June 11, 2003

remote sensing data in jeopardy

US set to purchase more satellite imagery

May 14, 2003

More reliance on U.S. firms

Lake clarity mapped on the web

February 4, 2003

UW-Madison project first of its kind