Landsat 9 L-16 Press Briefing Graphics

Video of Landsat 9 media briefing, held August 31, 2021. Host: Tylar Greene - Earth Science Communications Lead, NASA Participants: Karen St. Germain - Earth Science Division Director, NASA Del Jenstrom - Landsat 9 Project Manager, NASA Jeff Masek – Landsat 9 Project Scientist, NASA Dave Applegate – Associate Director for Natural Hazards Exercising the Delegated Authority of the Director, USGS Birgit Peterson – Geographer, USGS Inbal Becker-Reshef - Program Director, NASA Harvest

Figure 1 (St. Germain) -- NASA's Earth observing fleet, as of August 2021. Original visualization here https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4931

Figure 2 (St. Germain) -- six datasets from multiple NASA instruments and models, layered to be time-synchronous. While scientists learn a great deal from studying each of these components individually, improved observational and computational capabilities increasingly allow them to study the interactions between these interrelated geophysical and biological parameters, leading to unprecedented insight into how the Earth system works—and how it might change in the future. Original visualization https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31139

Figure 3 (St. Germain) -- Timeline of the Landsat program, from Landsat 1, which launched in 1972, through Landsat 9. The hashed lines for Landsats 7-9 indicate the uncertain lifespan of the satellites. Landsat 6 failed to reach orbit on launch. Animated version here https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11433

Figure 4 (Jenstrom) -- b-roll of TIRS-2 in the cleanroom at Goddard Space Flight Center followed by b-roll of OLI-2 in the cleanroom at Ball Aerospace.

Figure 5 (Jenstrom) -- photos showing the instruments being integrated with the Landsat 9 spacecraft, the observatory undergoing environmental testing, and being check out upon arrival at Vandenberg Space Force Base, followed by footage of the Landsat Multimission Operations Center at Goddard Space Flight Center.

Figure 6 (Masek) -- visualization of Landsat's orbit and ground swath. Full visualization here https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3939.

Figure 7 (Masek) -- Examples of various applications of Landsat data. A timelapse of forest recovery after the Mt. St. Helens eruption, conversion of forest to pasture and cropland in the Brazilian Amazon, expansion of center-pivot irrigated fields in Saudi Arabia, and a data visualization of ice velocity of the Heimdall Glacier in southeast Greenland.

Figure 8 (Applegate) -- animations demonstrating the vast amount of data collected by the Landsat program and archived at the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science Center. More video content here https://eros.usgs.gov/video-library/landsat

Figure 9 (Applegate) -- video demonstrating the USGS ground station operations for the Landsat program. More video content here https://eros.usgs.gov/video-library/landsat

Figure 10 (Applegate) -- b-roll footage of how USGS supports real-world applications of Landsat data.

Figure 11 (Peterson) -- example of LANDFIRE data characterizing fire behavior fuel models for the Black Hills area.

Figure 12 (Peterson) -- slide showing the calculation of burn severity for Legion Lake fire in December 2017.

Figure 13 (Peterson) -- slide showing the long-term monitoring of vegetation recovery after the Jasper Fire in 2000.

Figure 14 (Becker-Reshef) -- data visualizations and b-roll demonstrating Landsat applications for agriculture around the world. Full data visualization of the USDA Cropland Data Layer here https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13417

Figure 15 (Becker-Reshef) -- data visualization of cropland growth in South America.