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Are you looking forward to the Landsat 9 Launch?

By iowaviewAugust 11, 2021AmericaView, Announcement, Education, Landsat, NASA, Observation, Resource, USGSA History of the Landsat Program, birth of NASA 1958, earth observation, Ellie Leydsman McGinty, founding of USGS 1879, Google Earth Tour, Landsat 9 Launch, September 16, UtahView

Rocket Launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Lompoc, California

Photo Credit: U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Ian Dudley — Photo Credit: U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Ian Dudley

Landsat 9 is scheduled to be launched on September 16, 2021. This will mark almost 50 years of earth observation by US satellites. In preparation for this historic launch, we will be sharing several interactive documents about the history of the Landsat mission as well as the information about the Landsat 9 mission.

Today we would like to share with you, A History of the Landsat Program, developed by Ellie McGinty at UtahView. It’s an interactive Google Earth Tour, which documents major moments in earth observation history through a combination of maps, text, and curated images starting with the founding of the United States Geological Survey in 1879 through the birth of NASA in 1958 to the conception of Landsat in 1970 and all the way to the present day launching of Landsat 9.

Remembering the 2020 Midwest Derecho

By iowaviewAugust 10, 2021Education, Event, Imagery, Landsat, NASA, Observation, Remote SensingAugust 10 2020, Derecho Damage, Derecho Flattens Iowa Corn, Derecho Story, Midwest Derecho, NASA Earth Observatory, NOAA, StoryMap

A year ago today a derecho, a series of thunderstorms with hurricane-like winds and heavy rains, struck Iowa with very little warning. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) put together a multi-media story map to tell the tale of this eventful day. Hundreds of thousands of trees were lost or damaged. Homes and buildings were destroyed. Many people lost power for days or even weeks.

Have you visited the NASA’s Earth Observatory? It is a NASA website that helps make satellite imagery relevant to the general public and it is a great place to find images for presentations or use in the classroom. In August 2020, the Earth Observatory featured a comparison of satellite images from July 2020 and August 2020 to show the extent of the derecho damage on Iowa cropland.

Camp Landsat Counts Down to the Landsat 9 Launch

By iowaviewAugust 2, 2021Activity, Announcement, Education, Event, Game, Imagery, Landsat, NASA, Outreach, Resource9 weeks of summer camp fun, A postcard from camp, Camp Landsat, Count down to the Landsat 9 Launch, crafts, Explore, games, Landsat earth science, NASA, September 2021, Week 1: Rocks and Rivers, Week 2: Farms & Food, Week 3: Beaches & Reefs, Week 4: Forests, Week 5: Cities & Suburbs, Week 6: Fires & Floods, Week 7: Ice & Climate, Week 8: Health & Wellness, Week 9: Flora & Fauna

Each week NASA’s Landsat Science team will explore a unique aspect of Landsat earth science (see themes below). Weekly features include Landsat related crafts and games, revisiting each sequential Landsat mission as well a weekly postcard from camp. Stop by each week of camp to explore a new theme.

Release of Cover Crop ID Toolbox and Handbook

By iowaviewMay 12, 2021Announcement, Environmental Change, Imagery, Observation, Outreach, Remote Sensing, TutorialsCover Crop ID Toolbox, IowaView, New Release

IowaView staff have released the Cover Crop ID Toolbox and Handbook. This toolbox allows users to quickly identify possible cover crop fields using three Sentinel-2 images from the fall, early spring, and late spring downloaded from the Earth Explorer website based on field boundaries supplied by the user. On the project webpage you can download the toolbox which works with both ArcMap or ArcGIS Pro as well as the Cover Crop ID Toolbox Handbook that provides additional details about each step of the tool.

#ConnectedByEarth – Earth Day 2021!

By iowaviewApril 22, 2021Activity, Earth Day, Education, Event, Imagery, NASA, Phenology, Remote Sensing, Resource#ConnectedByEarth, Bee Connected, Earth Day 2021, Jenny Mottar, NASA

This year NASA’s Earth Day theme is #ConnectedByEarth. Visit the NASA Earth Day Poster website to watch a short video about the inspiration for the poster and discover the gems hidden within the poster. Download your copy of the poster to learn more about bees and our natural world.

Happy Earth Week 2021!

By iowaviewApril 20, 2021Activity, Earth Day, Education, Event, Outreach, Resource#RestoreOurEarth, @EarthDay, Earth Day 2021, Earth Image Puzzles, Enjoy the Earth, GeorgiaView, Get outside, GLOBE Observer, Google Earth Engine Tutorials, QGIS, Remote Sensing with ArcGIS Pro, Speto, VirginiaView, WestVirginiaView

Earth Day Poster by Brazilian artist – Septo

Here are some ways to celebrate:

A. Get outside – enjoy the beauty of the earth and mark your observations.
Consider joining a citizen science project such as Nature’s Notebook or GLOBE observer Tree Challenge.

B. Explore our beautiful Earth with Ellie Leydsman McGinty’s (UtahView) Earth as Art 4 tour.

C. Learn some new GIS skills with resources from AmericaView members: Google Earth Engine (GeorgiaView), QGIS (WestVirginiaView), or ArcGIS Pro (VirginiaView).

D. Put together an Earth image Puzzle.

IowaView Staff Present at the Iowa Water Conference!

By iowaviewApril 8, 2021Announcement, Education, Event, Outreach#IowaWaterConference2021, Developing a remotely sensed cover crop identification tool, poster, virtual conference

Below is the poster that IowaView staff displayed at the virtual 2021 Iowa Water Conference, April 6-8, 2021. Click on the image below to explore the poster.

Ladies of Landsat

By iowaviewMarch 31, 2021Education, Landsat, Remote Sensing, Resource, Women's History Month#WomenInRemoteSensing, @LadiesOfLandsat, Landsat science, Networking, USGS

Here’s a short video created by USGS featuring the Ladies of Landsat, a twitter-based women’s Landsat science networking group.

Click on the image below to check out the latest on their twitter page.

Celebrating the “Mother of Landsat” – Virginia T. Norwood

By iowaviewMarch 30, 2021Announcement, Conference, Education, Landsat, Women's History Month"Mother of Landsat", ASPRS Lifetime Achievement Award, first multspectral scanner (MSS) on-board Landsat-1, Landsat Hero, satellite communications, Virginia T Norwood

“I have seen further by standing on the shoulders of giants.” ~ Sir Isaac Newton

This week is the virtual American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) conference. At today’s conference, the ASPRS Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Virginia T. Norwood.

Virginia Norwood is known as the “Mother of Landsat.” When interviewed by Laura Rocchio for a NASA Landsat Science article, Ms. Norwood was asked if she is comfortable with this title and she replied, “Yes. I like it, and it’s apt. I created it. I birthed it; and I fought for it.” In recognition of her contributions to satellite communications and optics for over 40 years, including the design, building, promotion and operation of the first multspectral scanner (MSS) on-board Landsat-1, Ms. Norwood was awarded the 2021 ASPRS Lifetime Achievement Award.

To learn more about Virginia’s story: https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/article/virginia-t-norwood-mother-landsat

Congratulations, Virginia! Thank you for all your contribution to Landsat and Science!

IowaView Staff Present at ISU Research Days

By iowaviewMarch 23, 2021Activity, Conference, Education, Imagery, Outreach, Remote SensingDeveloping a remotely sensed cover crop identification tool, iPoster, ISU GIS Facility, Research Days 2021, virtual poster

This year IowaView Staff are presenting their research at a virtual university research conference. Staff built a poster using a tool called iPoster. Click on the poster below to interact with the virtual poster (available for a limited time, through March 2021).

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