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Suggested Citation:"Cover Credits." National Research Council. 2013. Landsat and Beyond: Sustaining and Enhancing the Nation's Land Imaging Program. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18420.
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1. Seattle, Washington, in false color using TM/ETM+ data (Landsat 7). From C. Small, 2006, Urban Landsat: Cities from Space, NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center, Palisades, N.Y. Available at http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/ulandsat-cities-from-space, accessed November 1, 2013. Courtesy of the Center for International Earth Science Information Network.

2. Mississippi Meandering (Landsat 7). Available at http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/670105main_meandering_mississippi.jpg. Courtesy of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/USGS.

3. Cape Cod, Massachusetts (Landsat 7). Available at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cape_Cod_-_Landsat_7.jpg. Courtesy of NASA.

4. Lake Manicouagan (Landsat 7). Available at http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/40000/40515/Mani_560.jpg. Courtesy of NASA GSFC Landsat/LDCM EPO Team.

Suggested Citation:"Cover Credits." National Research Council. 2013. Landsat and Beyond: Sustaining and Enhancing the Nation's Land Imaging Program. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18420.
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5. Enhanced Landsat 8 Image, Western Australia.Western Australia. Available at http://landsat.usgs.gov/images/gallery/300_L.jpg. Courtesy of USGS.

6. Mining for Water in the Kansas Heartland (Landsat 1). Available at http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/668520main_garden-city-ks-1972-1988-2011.gif. Courtesy of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

7. Logging and Regrowth in Washington State (Landsat 5). Available at http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/CarbonCycle/images/washington_tm5_1984201-2010224.jpg. Courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory, image created by Robert Simmon, using Landsat data provided by the Landsat Project Science Office. Landsat is jointly managed by the U.S. Geological Survey and NASA.

8. Binhai, China (Landsat 5). Available at http://landsat.usgs.gov/images/gallery/256_L.jpg. Courtesy of USGS.

9. Binhai, China (Landsat 5). Available at http://landsat.usgs.gov/images/gallery/256_L.jpg. Courtesy of USGS.

10. Searching for Dinosaur Fossils in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia (Landsat 7). Available at http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Fossils/Images/321.jpg. Images courtesy of Barbara Summey, NASA GSFC Visualization Analysis Lab, based on Landsat 5 data provided by the Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics.

11. Al Farafra Oasis (Landsat 7). Available at http://eros.usgs.gov/sites/all/files/external/imagegallery/2818.jpg. Courtesy of USGS.

12. Rodeo-Chediski Fire (Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+). Available at http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/news/NasaNews/ReleaseImages/20030722/rodeo.jpg. Courtesy of NASA/USGS.

13. Columbia Glacier, Alaska. Available at http://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/images/featuredimage/featuredimage_272.jpg. Courtesy of NASA; images by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon using Landsat 4, 5, and 7 data from the USGS Global Visualization Viewer.

14. Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (Landsat 7). Available at http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/78000/78061/2010_Oil_Spill_946x710.jpg. Courtesy of NASA GSFC Landsat/LDCM EPO Team.

15. 40 Years of Recording Change, Washington, D.C. (Landsat 1). Available at http://landsat.usgs.gov/images/gallery/270_L.jpg. Courtesy of USGS.

16. Byrd Glacier, Antarctica (Landsat 7). Available at http://landsat.visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=7544. Courtesy of NASA/Jesse Allen, made from the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica.

Suggested Citation:"Cover Credits." National Research Council. 2013. Landsat and Beyond: Sustaining and Enhancing the Nation's Land Imaging Program. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18420.
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Suggested Citation:"Cover Credits." National Research Council. 2013. Landsat and Beyond: Sustaining and Enhancing the Nation's Land Imaging Program. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18420.
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In 1972 NASA launched the Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ETRS), now known as Landsat 1, and on February 11, 2013 launched Landsat 8. Currently the United States has collected 40 continuous years of satellite records of land remote sensing data from satellites similar to these. Even though this data is valuable to improving many different aspects of the country such as agriculture, homeland security, and disaster mitigation; the availability of this data for planning our nation's future is at risk.

Thus, the Department of the Interior's (DOI's) U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) requested that the National Research Council's (NRC's) Committee on Implementation of a Sustained Land Imaging Program review the needs and opportunities necessary for the development of a national space-based operational land imaging capability. The committee was specifically tasked with several objectives including identifying stakeholders and their data needs and providing recommendations to facilitate the transition from NASA's research-based series of satellites to a sustained USGS land imaging program.

Landsat and Beyond: Sustaining and Enhancing the Nation's Land Imaging Program is the result of the committee's investigation. This investigation included meetings with stakeholders such as the DOI, NASA, NOAA, and commercial data providers. The report includes the committee's recommendations, information about different aspects of the program, and a section dedicated to future opportunities.

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