Landsat Contest Offers View of Local Landscape Change from Space

May 24, 2012

Steve Cole
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-0918
stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-093

LANDSAT CONTEST OFFERS VIEW OF LOCAL LANDSCAPE CHANGE FROM SPACE

WASHINGTON -- To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the United States'
Landsat Earth-observing program, NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey
(USGS) are holding a contest that will offer winners customized
satellite views of changing local landscapes.

All U.S. citizens are eligible to enter the "My American Landscape: A
Space Chronicle of Change" contest. Winners will be announced on July
23 at a Landsat Program anniversary news conference in Washington,
which will be carried live on NASA Television. The submissions
deadline is Wednesday, June 6.

The Landsat Program has created the longest continuous global record
of the Earth's surface observed from space. The images are a critical
ingredient in decision making for agriculture, climate research,
disaster mitigation, ecosystems, forestry, human health, and water
management.

To enter the contest, send NASA an email describing the local
landscape changes you are interested in where you live, and what you
hope to learn about them from Landsat's four decades of observations
from space. Scientists will review the Landsat data archive for the
six areas selected and show the changes observed at the July 23
event.

For more information on the contest and details on how to enter,
visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/landsat_contest.html

The first Landsat satellite rocketed into space on July 23, 1972. The
Landsat Program was our nation's first step toward studying in a
comprehensive way what was happening across the American landscape
and around the world. Landsat satellites have documented our planet
ever since in great detail, giving us valuable information about
Earth's surface, its ecosystems and the impacts of human activity and
natural disasters. NASA is preparing to launch the next Landsat
satellite in 2013, which will be turned over to USGS for operations
and data distribution.

For more information about the Landsat Program, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/landsat


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