The United States opens the Landsat archive at no charge

Assembled from 26 blocks · 1 evidence · 26 related

1. Story
2. The US Geological Survey ended charging for Landsat scenes and made the full archive freely downloadable. Distribution volumes rose by orders of magnitude within a few years, and analytic uses appeared — deforestation monitoring, crop assessment, water management, global land-cover mapping — that had simply not been affordable when each scene carried a price. It remains the strongest available evidence on how satellite data creates value, and it points away from selling the data.
3. Knowledge
4. Upstream and downstream in space accounting
5. Earth observation
6. Landsat
7. The United States opens the Landsat archive at no charge
8. Connections
9. Upstream and downstream in space accounting
10. Landsat
11. Earth observation
12. Global navigation satellite systems
13. The trillion-dollar space economy projection
14. Selective Availability is switched off
15. The United States opens the Landsat archive at no charge
16. Copernicus
17. ERTS-1, later Landsat 1, begins the civil land-imaging record
18. The United States opens the Landsat archive at no charge
19. Satellite communications
20. Copernicus
21. Planet Labs
22. ERTS-1, later Landsat 1, begins the civil land-imaging record
23. The United States opens the Landsat archive at no charge
24. Sentinel-1A launches and Copernicus data becomes free and open
25. Evidence
26. Supports the Landsat launch chronology from 1972 and the 2008 decision to distribute the full archive at no charge, together with the subsequent increase in scene distribution. V55 verification basis: usgs.gov was not retrievable in this session; the distribution increase is given as orders of magnitude rather than a number.