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@USGSLandsat
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Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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Joined September 2009
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    USGS Landsat
    US Department of the Interior
    @USGSLandsat
    Aug 7
    One satellite image. Countless colors. A whole new perspective on Earth. The USGS EROS Earth As Art collections showcase our planet through a different lens, transforming satellite observations into vibrant images that highlight the beauty, patterns, and complexity of Earth's
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    USGS Landsat
    US Department of the Interior
    @USGSLandsat
    Jul 21
    A smarter way to work with Landsat metadata. Landsat bulk metadata files contain every scene in the USGS archive across more than 53 years, are updated daily, and can be burdensome to manage in historic file formats. There’s another option: Parquet! But not THAT parquet.
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    USGS Landsat
    US Department of the Interior
    @USGSLandsat
    Jul 16
    This satellite was only supposed to last three years. It kept working for over a decade and permanently changed how we see Earth. 🛰️ Landsat 4 launched on July 16, 1982, carrying a new instrument called the Thematic Mapper (TM) alongside the Multispectral Scanner (MSS) that had
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    USGS Landsat
    US Department of the Interior
    @USGSLandsat
    Jul 14
    In a fraction of time, a tornado changes lives and landscapes forever. From far above, Landsat captures a hint of the destruction. On the night of May 16, 2025, it took less than two hours for an EF-4 tornado to tear a path nearly 60 miles long through forested and residential
    Color-coded map showing urban areas in red, agricultural zones in yellow, dense forests in green, and water bodies in blue with winding rivers.
    Color-coded map showing varied land use with dense green forest areas, yellow agricultural zones, and red urban clusters connected by roads. A diagonal tan line indicating tornado destruction runs across the middle of the image.
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    USGS Landsat
    US Department of the Interior
    @USGSLandsat
    Jul 2
    America, from space. 🛰️ To celebrate America's 250th anniversary, the USGS has created a new portrait of the nation using imagery from Landsat 8 and Landsat 9. For more than 50 years, the @USGS and @NASA Landsat program has provided a continuous record of Earth's changing land