#45 Weekly Remote Sensing and Geoscience news!

5 NASA ARSET materials to get started with Land Cover Mapping; The Landsat 9 satellite reached a milestone of 10K orbits around the Earth; Upcoming USGS webinar to highlight Landsat Mission and more!

These are the topics of our #45 newsletter issue:

🛰 5 NASA ARSET materials to get started with Land Cover Mapping

🛰 The Landsat 9 satellite reached a milestone of 10K orbits around the Earth

🛰 Upcoming USGS webinar to highlight Landsat Mission

🛰 NASA ARSET new training: Spectral Indices for Land and Aquatic Applications

🛰 The geemap Python package is now pre-installed on Google Colab

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5 NASA ARSET materials to get started with Land Cover Mapping

🗺️ Here are 5 NASA ARSET materials that will help you to study & understand the land cover mapping datasets and methods.

📰 Check out my LinkedIn post to check the 5 materials: Rafaela Tiengo - 5 NASA ARSET materials to get started with Land Cover Mapping

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The Landsat 9 satellite reached a milestone of 10K orbits around the Earth

🛰️ The Landsat 9 satellite reached a milestone of 10,000 orbits around the Earth on August 15, 2023!

🛰️ Since its launch on September 27, 2021, the satellite has added over 475,000 scenes to the USGS EROS Landsat Level-1 data archive!

📰 USGS on Twitter: Number of the day: 10K!

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Upcoming USGS webinar to highlight Landsat Mission

Join the webinar on Tuesday, September 26, 2023, at 12:00 PM CDT for the next installment in the EROS User Experience Webinar Series, "Landsat: Products & Services from the USGS".

This webinar will provide an overview of the Landsat Program and active missions, Landsat data products and data access, and available tools and services.

📰 Read more: USGS - Upcoming Webinar to highlight Landsat

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NASA ARSET new training: Spectral Indices for Land and Aquatic Applications

This training will provide an overview of spectral indices for land and aquatic applications. Specifically, this training will begin with an introduction to the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), along with its calculation, uses, and prominence in Earth science.

📰 Read more: ARSET - Spectral Indices for Land and Aquatic Applications

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The geemap Python package is now pre-installed on Google Colab

Exciting news for geospatial enthusiasts and Python developers! 🎉 The #geemap Python package, a popular tool for interactive mapping with Google Earth Engine, is now pre-installed on Google Colab.

This integration simplifies the setup process for users, eliminating the need to manually install the package before diving into geospatial analysis. With Google Colab's powerful cloud-based platform and the capabilities of the geemap package combined, researchers, students, and developers have an even more streamlined environment to visualize, analyze, and share their Earth observation data.

This move exemplifies the growing recognition of the importance of geospatial technologies in the wider tech community.

📰 Read more: Qiusheng Wu on Twitter

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— Rafaela Tiengo