1. Africa Content Environmental Change: Landsat data was heavily used to create Africa Environmental change Atlas Map that includes a map of glacier melting, loss of a different kind of vegetation and so on.
Research Paper: AFRICA Atlas of Our Changing Environment
2. Algae Monitoring: Landsat data are used to monitor the presence of algae in lakes.
Research Paper: Remote Sensing Models of Algal Blooms and Cyanobacteria in Lake Champlain
3. Assessment of Drought: Vegetation map prepared from the Landsat data gives better visualization of greenness percentage in Desert area. If there is a lack of rain and a decrease in vegetation which might trigger the drought. Landsat data can help to find those drought areas and provide critical information to environmentalist for finding ways to increase the greenness.
Research Paper: Drought Severity Assessment in Arid Area of Thal Doab using Remote Sensing and GIS
4. Below the Land: Landsat image has been useful for providing evidence of ancient Mega Lake.
Research Paper: Landsat Provides Evidence of Ancient Mega-Lake
5. Better Estimate of Boreal Forest: Combination of Landsat and other imagery data can be helpful to better understand the increment or decrement of the boreal forest.
Research Paper: Fusing Landsat and MODIS Data to Better Estimate Boreal Forest Loss
6. Cartographic Design: Landsat data can be combined with DEM (digital elevation model0 to create a meaningful 3d map.
Research Paper: Application of Landsat Images for Mapping…
7. Change Shoreline: Time series Landsat data helps the marine researcher to observe the change on the seashore. This helps to create a better environment for sea plant and fish.
Research Paper: Shoreline extraction using satellite imagery
8. Chevron Discovery: On the Landsat 7 image, Chevron has been discovered around Madagascar.
Research Paper: Landsat Data Used in Chevron Discovery
9. Classify Land Capability: Landsat data can be classified into different categories based on its capability. Different variables are inputted to create a capability mapping, such as slope, vegetation, land cover, soil type and so on.
Research Paper: Land capability mapping with Landsat Data and GIS: A Methodological Study for Northeast Thailand
10. Classifying Rock Type: Landsat data can be used to classify rocky types to a certain extent.
Research Paper: Improved discrimination of rock units using Landsat Thematic Mapper imagery of the Oman ophiolite
11. Coal Mine Fire: Coal mine fire is a major problem in the coal industry, Landsat-7 Enhance Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) band 6 thermal data can be used for detection of surface and subsurface coal fires.
Research Paper: Study of coal fire dynamics of Jharia coalfield using satellite data
12. Coal Mining Activities: Coal mining activities can increase the acidity and decrease PH value in mine water. Landsat data can be used to track the hydrological and limnological development on the mine water.
Research Paper: Analyses and monitoring of lignite mining lakes in Eastern Germany with spectral signatures of Landsat TM satellite data
13. Coastal Erosion: Water always tend to erode the land surface area, Landsat time-series data can be used to monitor the erosion area that might help for better planning.
Research Paper: Landsat Helps Document Alaska Coastal Erosion
14. Coastal Studies: Landsat data provides a wide range of reflectance values which can be used to understand the behaviour changes of the coastal area.
Research Paper: Coastline change detection using remote sensing
15. Coral Reefs: Finding location and distribution of the coral reefs using Landsat image that might be important for the health of the shallow coastal waters.
Research Paper: Coral Reef Mapping Using Landsat Thematic-Mapper Data
16. Cyclone Aftermath: Landsat data is heavily used to assess the property damaged caused by the natural disaster. Cyclone Nargis that occurred in the Burma and rescue team relied on the Landsat data captured during that period to analyze the impact.
Research Paper: Landsat Satellite Imagery Used to Assess the Impact of Burma’s Cyclone Nargis
17. Dam Construction: China is using Landsat data to monitor the construction of the three massive dams along the Yangtze River which will be the world largest hydroelectric power generator.
Research Paper: Landsat Watches as China Constructs Giant Dam
18. Delineating Unconsolidated Rocks and Soils: Landsat data has been used for this type of delineation.
Research Paper: Effects of microbial processes on electrolytic and interfacial electrical properties of unconsolidated sediments
19. Dessert Blooms: Landsat image data are helpful to locate the dessert blooming and their condition every year.
Research Paper: Landsat ETM+ and MODIS EVI/NDVI Data Products for Climatic Variation and Agricultural Measurements in Cholistan Desert
20. Differentiating Vegetation and Crop Type: Landsat image can be used to identify different types of crops or vegetation on the surface. Each vegetation reflects unique reflectance that is captured by Landsat satellite and these values are used to map it.
Research Paper: Crop Type Classification Using Vegetation Indices Of Rapideye Imagery
21. Diversity and Biomass of Tropical Forests: Landsat data were used to understand the decrease of the tropical forest of Puerto Rico. Time series land cover maps were produced from land sat data to understand the decrease in diversity of the plants on the island.
Research Paper: Landsat ETM+ and MODIS EVI/NDVI Data Products for Climatic Variation and Agricultural Measurements in Cholistan Desert
22. Effects of Natural Disaster: Landsat data can be used to perform aftermath effects of the Natural Disaster and critical role in responding to it.
Research Paper: Remote Sensing For Natural Disaster Management
23. Electricity Lines Route: Landsat data can be used to find the best route for electricity lines.
Research Paper: Rerouting Electric Power Transmission Lines by using Satellite Imagery
24. Examine Health Condition of Forests: Forest is home for different species or animals; Landsat image has been used to find the health condition of the temperate conifer forest. This type of finding helps the researcher to understand the ecosystem of the forest and the role of the human activities on degrading the quality of the forest.
Research Paper: Using Mult-Spectral Landsat Imagery To Examine Forest Health Trends At Fort Benning, Georgia
25. Examine Soil Condition: Differently, soils reflect different reflectance; values are different for topsoil or for barren soil. Landsat image has been used to understand the condition of the soil type or transition of the soil from one type to other.
Research Paper: Soil Salinity Mapping Using Multitemporal Landsat Data
26. Examining the Ongoing project: Landsat data from a different period can be used to track how the project work is moving ahead.
Research Paper: Landsat Documents Rapid Disappearance of Antarctica’s Ice Shelves
27. Farming and Land Management: Landsat image is widely used by farmers to analyze the crop or land and find a good timing to irrigate or fertilize crops. Remotely captured data will be handy to farmers to perform the right type of calculation for the better production of the crop.
Research Paper: An Analysis of Agricultural Land Use and Management in the Pembina River Watershed
28. Fighting Poverty and Hunger: Organization like USAID used Landsat data to manage poverty and hunger in different counties.
Research Paper: the U.S. Uses Landsat Satellite Data To Fight Hunger, Poverty
29. Finding Petroleum Resources: Landsat data has been used by different oil and gas company to do a preliminary survey for the location of the petroleum resources.
Research Paper: Finding Oil and Gas from Space
30. Fire and Water Relationship: Water catchment area and forest are complementary to each other, and most of drinking and irrigation water comes from this area by forest. If fire happen on this forest area which will cut off the supply of water. Landsat data has played an important role to manage the fire and water resources effectively.
Research Paper: Landsat Helps Establish Bushfire Impact on Water Yields in Australia
31. Flood Plains: Landsat data are used to map the flood plains and also its vegetation health.
Research Paper: Floods, floodplains, delta plains — A satellite imaging approach
32. Foreclosure House Vegetation: Properties are foreclosed every year around the world which leaves opportunity for the vegetation to grow rapidly. Municipality likes to monitor those property’s vegetation which might be harmful to the surrounding environment. In response to this scientists have used Landsat data to monitor the vegetation growth.
Research Paper: Detection of Foreclosure-related Landscape Management Changes Using Landsat
33. Forest Damage in Croatia: Landsat 8 OLI images was used to perform the assessment of forest damage in Croatia.
Research Paper: Assessment of Forest Damage in Croatia using Landsat-8 OLI Images
34. Forest Inventory: Layers of different Landsat image captured in different period time and GIS layers can be used to create the inventory of the forest range vegetation.
Research Paper: Modeling and Mapping Forest Biomass using Forest Inventory and Landsat
35. Forest Trends: Landsat data can be used to see the forest trend growing or forest deforestation. Different government bodies used Landsat data to make a decision on how human settlements is affecting the forest area.
Research Paper: Forest cover trends from time series Landsat data for the Australian continent
36. Geomorphic Maps: Landsat data has been used to study the structural geology and geomorphology of the land’s surface.
Research Paper: Application of LANDSAT imagery to studies of structural geology and geomorphology..
37. Glacier Monitoring: Most of the glacier around the world are experiencing retreat, thinning or stagnation esp. at lower elevations. The researcher has used Landsat data to find out the glacier retreat experiences.
Research Paper: Glacier Mapping in High Mountains Using DEMs, Landsat and ASTER Data
38. Glacier: Glacial holds a ton of cubic water and understanding its increment and decrement is important for the environment phenomenon. Landsat data helps to understand ice sheet movement in Antarctica or the Northern part of any content which are very remote and less accessible.
Research Paper: Measuring changes and extent of glacial features
39. Groundwater Discharges: Researcher uses Landsat data’s thermal band along with the panchromatic and near-infrared spectral band to analyze the groundwater discharges.
Research Paper: Locating Ground-Water Discharge Areas In…
40. Health Assessment of Coral Reef: Landsat data can be used to assess the health condition of the coral reef.
Research Paper: Landsat and MODIS Data Help Assess the Health of Florida’s Coral Reefs
41. Horticulture: Horticulture is becoming worldwide popular and to understand it’s behaviour Landsat data plays a vital role. Analysis of Landsat data can confirm; right month to irrigate, the stress level of the plant and so on.
Research Paper: Usage of Multispectral data for Crop forecasting, horticulture and crop
42. Impact Craters: NASA used Landsat data to find out the impact of the craters.
Research Paper: Finding Impact Craters with Landsat
43. Insect Outbreaks: Landsat data can capture the insect outbreaks from space and it can be used to control.
Research Paper: Landsat-based analysis of insect outbreaks in southern Siberia
44. Irrigable Fields: Landsat data has been used to trace the area of irrigable; ETM + image was used to map land use and irrigated croplands.
Research Paper: Determination of land use and irrigated crop acres by remote sensing
45. Land Discovery: Features that surveyor was unaware of it, they were able to track it down by observing features on the Landsat image. Landsat Island was discovered by it and was named after it.
Research Paper: Landsat Island
46. Land Use Classification: Landsat data has been heavily used to classify the land, there is numerous algorithm that can classify Landsat data.
Research Paper: Application Of Multitemporal Landsat Data To Map And Monitor Land Cover And Land Use Change
47. Land Water Boundaries: Landsat data has been heavily used to convert surface features into land cover maps. The analyst uses different algorithm such as NDVI to differentiate surface features including water body.
Research Paper: Water Body Detection and Delineation with Landsat TM Data
48. Landslide Monitoring: Landsat data have provided ease to environmentalist to provide information about soils, land-cover and structural geology, these all are the factors affecting landslide occurrence.
Research Paper: Landslide scar/soil erodibility mapping using Landsat TM/ETM+ bands 7 and 3 Normalised
49. Large Area Forest Canopy: Large area estimation of forest cover or canopy cover is much interested in the forest or ecological activities. Landsat image is used to estimate the area of canopy cover.
Research Paper: The accuracy of large-area forest canopy cover estimation using Landsat in the boreal region
50. Location of Dumpsites: Landsat spectral features can be used to find the space for the dumpsite or find unknown dump sites.
Research Paper: Identifying The Location And Distribution Of The Open-Air Dumps Of Solid Wastes Using Remote Sensing Technique
51. Management of Insect Infestations: Landsat data can be used to manage the infected forest area by the insect. The temporal sequence of Landsat data is used to calculate the infected area.
Research Paper: Estimation of insect infestation dynamics using a temporal sequence of Landsat data
52. Management of Water: Landsat imagery has a number of uses and one of them will be the benefit of water management. Especially in USA western part is worried of decreasing water resources, government agencies are using Landsat data to determine past and present water use and evapotranspiration (ET) which helps for water.
Research Paper: The Landsat Program and Water Resources Information Needs in the United States
53. Managing Crop Insurance: Government has a program of crop insurance to help farmer if they are hit hard by hail or other natural disasters. But there are few farmers who can misuse the government insurance policy, in such case Landsat data is used to understand the farmland for a particular time period.
Research Paper: Saving Millions in Government Dollars: Landsat Helps Fight Crop Insurance Fraud
54. Mapping Ancient features: Archaeologist is using Landsat data to explore the ancient places.
Research Paper: Remote-sensing investigation of the ancient Maya in the Peten rainforest of northern Guatemala
55. Mapping Antarctica: More than 1100 Landsat 7 images in 2007 was used to create high resolution, true colour map.
Research Paper: Guided Tour of LIMA Flyover
56. Mapping Fire Prevention: Past Landsat data is used by government agencies to analyze the area where there is the possibility of fire.
Research Paper: Mapping burned areas from Landsat TM/ETM+ data with a two-phase algorithm:
57. Mapping Geologic Landforms: Landsat data has been used to map the Geologic Landforms.
Research Paper: Regional Geolgical Mapping In Tropical Environments Using Landsat Tm
58. Mapping Geology Features: Landsat data has been used to map the geology features of the earth surface.
Research Paper: Geological applications of LANDSAT thematic mapper imagery…
59. Mapping Infected Areas: Disease outbreaks are some way related to the vegetation habitat. If vegetation habitat is growing or moving from one part to another, the disease can be widespread. Landsat data acquired during a particular period can be used by the researcher to find out the vegetation habitat and solution to control it.
60. Mapping Mangroves: Mangroves forest are decreasing mainly in the tsunami impacted countries mainly due to Agricultural expansion. Researchers have used Landsat data to calculate the remaining area of the mangrove forests.
Research Paper: Remote Sensing Application for Mangrove Mapping in…
61. Mapping Potholes: Potholes are small depression wetlands which are glacially-formed mainly found in Central North America. The researcher has used Landsat data to map the status of potholes and their impact on climate change.
Research Paper: Mapping Prairie Pothole Communities With Multitemporal Ikonos Satellite Imagery
62. Mapping Sugarcane Caribbean Island: New type of vegetation map was created using the Landsat data to understand the forest on these islands.
Research Paper: Factors influencing spatial pattern in tropical forest clearance and
63. Measurement of Carbon Contain: After industrial revolution tons of carbon dioxide (Co2) is added to the atmosphere which is the main cause of global warming. Another cause of global warming is deforestation that is clearing of the vegetation which results in an increase of Co2. So scientist has used Landsat data from 30 years back till today to assess the change in the vegetation so far.
Research Paper: Using Landsat TM data to estimate carbon release from burned
64. Measurement of Crop or Forest Area: Captured Landsat image can be used to measure the area of the forest or the cropland.
Research Paper: Forest Area Estimation Using Optical Remote…
65. Monitoring Bison: Landsat data can be used to track the habitat of the Bison and Elk.
Research Paper: Modeling Elk and Bison Carrying Capacity for Great Sand
66. Monitoring Clearcutting: For logging business, clear-cutting is practised often which leads to degradation of the rain forest that means an increase in global warming. The researcher has used Landsat data to track the area of clear-cutting.
Research Paper: Monitoring large areas for forest change using Landsat
67. Monitoring Coffee Plantation: Multi-Temporal Landsat 8 NDVI mapping was used to find out the inconsistency growth of the Arabica coffee.
68. Monitoring Coral Reef: Centuries back Coral reef were tracked by using plane or ship, people used to travel throughout the sea and track the location of the coral reef. Now technology has changed and things can be tracked and recorded using satellite image. RGB band Landsat image has played an important role in tracking down the coral reef.
Research Paper: Coral Reef Mapping Using Landsat Thematic-Mapper Data
69. Monitoring Flooding: Past Landsat image can help to understand the flooded area and damage it has done to the surrounding area.
Research Paper: Landsat and Water—Case Studies of the Uses and…
70. Monitoring Grass and Forest Fires: Grass and Forest fires are a big problem for any government bodies, managing them is a cumbersome task. One main thing to watch out is the amount of dry biomass on the ground which is the fuel for the wildfires. Reflectance values from the Landsat image can provide this information.
Research Paper: Monitoring Vegetation Recovery after Fire through Multitemporal….
71. Monitoring Ice Sheet: Remote access like the Antarctic would be only possible through Landsat data (satellite) and it makes a lot easier to monitor the Ice sheet.
Research Paper: Monitoring Ice Sheet Activity in Antarctica
72. Monitoring Lake Eutrophication: Eutrophication is the depletion of oxygen in a water body, which kills aquatic animals (Wiki). Bloom is one example which might be eating up too much oxygen from the water turns out to be less for aquatic animals. Landsat data can be used to create vegetation mapping and keep track of its area.
Research Paper: Monitoring The Eutrophication Of Lakes And Harmful Algal Blooms Using Satellite Data
73. Monitoring Lakes: As spring starts snow melts, the large lake receives warm spring run-off carrying pollutants which are not good for the phytoplankton plants and fish that feed on them. As warm water stays on the shoreline, Landsat data helps to understand the land use pattern on the shoreline.
Research Paper: Monitoring lake inventories and health
74. Monitoring Mine Waste: Mine waste is pollution to land, water and environment. Keeping control of mine waste is a challenge for the environmentalist. Landsat data helps to identify, delineate and monitor the mine pollution sources and affected areas.
Research Paper: Spaceborne Mine Waste Mineralogy Monitoring in South……
75. Monitoring Oil Spills: Oil Spill happens frequently, might be in seawater or inland. Tracking them and controlling the impact of the oil spill, time-lapsed Landsat helps to monitor it.
Research Paper: Oil Spill Remote Sensing
76. Monitoring Red Tides: Red tide is a discolouration of seawater caused by the bloom of toxic red dinoflagellates. Landsat ETM+ data is used to observe the concentration of red tide.
Research Paper: The Monitoring of Marine Environmental Problems by Airborne and Landsat MSS Data
77. Monitoring Sea Ice: Sea ice covers use space in the northern and southern hemisphere, and Landsat image has helped scientists to understand the flow, direction and change in area of it.
Research Paper: Sea Ice Monitoring by Remote Sensing
78. Monitoring Tillage: Landsat-5 data was used to monitor the tillage.
Research Paper: Assessment of Tillage Practices Using Landsat-TM 5 in Nebraska.
79. Monitoring Volcanic Ash: Volcanic ash consists of pulverized rock, minerals and volcanic glass, created during volcanic (wiki). Landsat data is heavily used to create volcanic plume elevation model.
Research Paper: Creating a Volcanic Plume Elevation Model
80. Monitoring Water Pollution: Lakes water grow a different type of vegetation and species that depend upon oxygen; lacking it might be due to Hazardous Algae Blooms (HAB). Landsat data can be used to track these algae and find a way to solve the problem.
Research Paper: Utilization Of Landsat Data For Water Quality Observation In Small Inland Water Bodies
81. Observing Deforestation: Landsat images from the different year can be used to monitor the growth or loss of the forest. A typical example will be the deforestation of the Amazon forest, on an average 6200 square miles of forest was lost each year in the period of 1970s to mid-1980s.
Research Paper: Monitoring Deforestation at Sub-Annual Scales as Extreme Events in Landsat Data Cubes
82. Observing Road: Information of the land surface from the Landsat data, road engineer can use this information to build the road network.
Research Paper: Road Detection From High And Low-Resolution Satellite Images
83. Online Map: Landsat data has been used in different platform such as Google Earth as a base map.
Research Paper: Landsat DataBase Map for Google Earth
84. Ponds Area: Scientist have done research on the Alaska Lakes from the year 1950 to 2002 with the help of Landsat data to show a reduction in the number and size of the ponds.
Research Paper: Landsat Shows Shrinking Ponds in Alaska
85. Quantifying Fire Severity: Landsat data can be used to calculate the area affected by the fire.
Research Paper: Using Landsat data to assess fire and burn severity…
86. Rain Forest: Government bodies in South America are using Landsat to make a decision on preserving rain forest.
Research Paper: Landsat Helps Rain Forest Protection Work in Peru
87. Rainfall Patterns: Scientists are now relying on Landsat data to demonstrate the link between rain and Urban Growth.
Research Paper: Satellite images reveal a link between urban growth, changing rainfall patterns
88. Rapid Mapping Forest Loss by Hurricane: Landsat data has been used rapidly to map the damaged forest area by Hurricane.
Research Paper: Rapid Mapping of Hurricane Damage to Forests
89. Reefs, Shoals and Shallow Areas in Sea: False-color infrared composite image of reefs, shoals and shallow areas indicates the strength of the vegetation.
Research Paper: Coral Reef Mapping Using Landsat Thematic-Mapper Data
90. Regional Planning: Analysis of Landsat data helps to perform better planning. Visualization of satellite data may trigger an idea to control the urban sprawl.
Research Paper: Integration of Landsat data into the MSDAMP geographic information system for regional recreation planning applications
91. Researching Cancer: Cancer is highly related to crop that we rely on, scientist are trying to find the way to track the crop history to perform research on the relationship between chemical and water used to grow crops. Vegetation map created from Landsat data can provide so much information to Scientist.
Research Paper: Using Landsat Satellite Imagery in Cancer Research
92. Researching Weather and Climate Change: Land Use map created from the past few decades using Landsat data highlighted the change in the summer seasonal rainfall and climate change.
Research Paper: Landsat’s Critical Role in Understanding Climate Change
93. Rice Production: Combination of different Satellite images, including Landsat can be used to monitor the rice production in Burma.
Research Paper: USDA FAS Uses GIS, MODIS, and Landsat to Monitor Rice Production in Burma
94. Schedule Forest Monitor: North American Carbon Program uses Landsat data to keep monitoring the forest disturbance in North America.
Research Paper: Forest Disturbance and the North American Carbon Flu
95. Sea Grass Mapping: Landsat data is used to monitor and calculate the seagrass area.
Research Paper: Long Term Land Cover and Seagrass Mapping Using Landsat Sensors from 1972 – 2010 in the Coastal Environment of South East Queensland, Australia
96. Sea Surface Salinity: Multivariable linear algorithm was used on the reflectance values from Landsat 8 OLI data to calculate the sea surface salinity (SSS).
Research Paper: Remotely sensed sea surface salinity in the hyper-saline Arabian Gulf: Application to Landsat 8 OLI data
97. Sea Surface Temperature: Landsat infrared data can be used to measure the temperature of the sea.
Research Paper: Coastal sea surface temperature variability from Landsat infrared data
98. Snow Melt Runoff: Landsat data are a good source for calculating snowmelt runoff using the remote sensing, GIS and simulation modelling techniques.
Research Paper: Snowmelt Runoff Estimation Of A Himalayan Watershed Through Remote Sensing, Gis And Simulation Modeling
99. Socioeconomic Impacts: Land use pattern map can be created from the Landsat data. This map can be used to understand the socio-economic impact on the land use of the area.
Research Paper: Study to examine the socioeconomic impact of Copernicus in the EU
100. Soil Carbon Flux: Researchers are relying on satellite image product to track the amount of the carbon present on the soil surface which helps government bodies to the land management.
Research Paper: Landsat Helps Map Soil Carbon Flux
101. Soil Salinity: Salt contains in the soil is a huge threat for the agriculture business, the researcher has used Landsat data to calculate the content of salt in the soil.
Research Paper: Regional-scale soil salinity evaluation using Landsat 7, western San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
102. Storm Impact on Sandy Beaches: Shoreline position obtained from the Landsat images can be analyzed to track the storm impact and recovery processes on sandy beaches.
Research Paper: Evaluation of storm impact on sandy beaches of the 2 Gulf of Valencia using Landsat imagery series
103. Surface Circulation and Upwelling Patterns: Landsat 7 data has been used to observe the Surface Circulation and Upwelling Patterns.
Research Paper: Characterizing partial upwellings and surface circulation at Lake Tahoe, California–Nevada, the USA with thermal infrared images
104. Surface Thermal: Landsat data can be used to measure the temperature of the surface which can be very helpful to understand the rising temperature on the earth surface.
Research Paper: Calculating surface temperature using Landsat thermal imagery
105. Transportation Network: Landsat data is used to plan the transportation network. Landsat data can provide enough information about the capability.
Research Paper: Automated Backdating Of Transportation Networks With Landsat Imagery
106. The trend of Sediment: Landsat data can be used to trace the type and quality of sediment on the bank of the river which helps to understand what type of land-use practices were performed and variation on the rainfall.
Research Paper: Land Use Change and Suspended Sediment Yield Analysis Using RS and GIS
107. Tropical Rainfall: Growth of Tropical forest heavily depend on the amount of the rainfall each year, vegetation strength can be calculated using the Landsat data which is directly dependent on the rainfall.
Research Paper: Srtm-Dem And Landsat Etm+ Data For Mapping Tropical Dry Forest Cover And Biodiversity Assessment In Nicaragua
108. Urban Growth: Observing Landsat data over time gives a good idea about the growth of the urban area.
Research Paper: Landsat’s Critical Role in Urban Planning
109. Urban Heat Islands: The parking lot that is built by Asphalt is always hotter than the surrounding grassy pathway because asphalt absorbs more heat and is the main cause of the increase in temperature of the city.
Research Paper: Using Landsat-8 Data To Explore The Correlation Between Urban Heat Island And Urban Land Uses
110. The vegetation of Bay area: Landsat data has been heavenly used for planning and restoration of vegetation of different world bay area.
Research Paper: A multivariate approach to vegetation mapping of Manitoba’s Hudson Bay Lowlands
111. Vegetation Water Content (VWC): Information about the vegetation water content is vital in the agriculture, forestry or hydrology field. The researcher uses Landsat thermal band to calculate the vegetation water content in the plant leaves or the soil moisture.
Research Paper: Vegetation water content estimation for corn and soybeans using spectral indices derived from MODIS near- and short-wave infrared bands
112. Volcanic Flow Activity: Landsat data are captured every 18 days and can be used to track the volcanic flow activities around the world.
Research Paper: Improved identification of volcanic features using Landsat 7 ETM+
113. Volcanic Surface deposits: Scientist are relying on the time series of Landsat data to explore the amount of Lava being added to the surface.
Research Paper: Mapping volcanic surface deposits
114. Water Boundaries and Area: Landsat data has been heavily used to trace water boundaries, and also same time to calculate the area of it.
Research Paper: Water Body Detection and Delineation with Landsat TM Data
115. Watersheds Mapping: Landsat data area always used to calculate the watersheds area.
Research Paper: Determining Land Use Change Within The Dog River Watershed Using Landsat Imagery
116. Wetland Inundation Dynamics: Wetland is an important factor for the ecosystem services, this is mainly controlled by the inundation fluctuation and soil saturation. Inundation is mainly controlled by precipitation and evapotranspiration. LIDAR and time-series Landsat data can be used to monitor those inundated areas.
Research Paper: Wetland inundation mapping and change monitoring using Landsat and airborne LiDAR data
117. Wetland Rebuilding: Every year we are losing so many wetlands from the world, Landsat data from present and past helps to find out the area that has changed and triggers the importance of restoring or bring back to the previous stage.
Research Paper: Wetland Inundation Mapping and Wetland Restoration Planning: A Case Study of Playa Wetlands, Nebraska
118. Wetlands: Landsat data can be downloaded of a few decades back, so it can be used to track the number and area of the wetlands.
Research Paper: Mapping Wetlands And Riparian Areas Using Landsat Etm1 Imagery And Decision-Tree-Based Models
119. Wheat Production Estimate: Landsat data plays a major role in balancing the price of wheat globally. Landsat data can be helpful how much wheat will be produced on one corner of the world so the opposite corner does not plant a lot to avoid a wheat glut.
Research Paper: Landsat – Protecting the Price of Bread
120. Wildlife Habitat: Landsat image can be used to track the changes in the forest vegetation or its area; whose outcome can be helpful to understand the change in the wildlife habitat. Also, it can be helpful to the management of the wildlife habitat.
Research Paper: Classifying Wildlife Habitat With Pan-Sharpened Landsat 7 Imagery
