
The land is always changing, sometimes by human hands: cities are built, farms expanded, and forests logged. Other changes lie mostly outside people's control: wildfires burn through communities, and hurricanes reshape coastlines. For most of the past four decades, observations from the Landsat satellite record show that humans have dominated changes to the U.S. landscape. Recent research revealed a shift in that trend, suggesting that disasters might be catching up.
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Categories: Earth Observatory; Earth Visualization & Mapping; Human Dimensions; Land Cover; Land Use; Landsat 5; Landsat 7; Landsat 8 / LDCM (Landsat Data Continuity Mission); Landsat 9; Natural Disasters;