+ Landsat data revealed a fault across the proposed path of a new gas pipeline in Bolivia. Engineers chose a different route that avoided the fault zone. The new path was actually shorter than the original one, an unexpected but welcome benefit.

+ Landsat satellite imagery has been used by Japan to monitor pollution in Osaka Bay.

+ In 1975, the governors of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana requested rapid deliveries of Landsat information showing the extent of flooding in their respective states by the rampaging Mississippi River: they received the data in about 36 hours.

+ Pakistan and Australia have employed Landsat data to assess flood damage in their territories.

+ In 1975, U.S. Coast Guard ship was guided through almost solid pack ice in Antarctica's relatively unexplored Pine Island Bay, following narrow channels of open water that were visible only in Landsat photographs.

+ Information about faults and fracture zones derived from Landsat imagery has been used in the United States and abroad to select locations for new power plants, and determine the best routes for oil and gas pipelines.

+ Landsat satellite imagery has been used by Alaska to aid navigation in Cook Inlet

+ Landsat satellite imagery has been used by California to select recreational areas.

+ Landsat pictures have helped Alaskan Indians select thousands of acres of timberland and mineral exploration areas from vast wilderness tracts offered by the federal government to settle native claims going back to 1867, when the United States purchased Alaska from Russia.

+ Geographers use Landsat, as well. In remote Antarctica, Landsat cameras revealed previously unknown groups of mountains in southern Victoria Land and at the head of Lambert Glacier.

+ Landsat can help identify and monitor the Earth's H20 resources, as well as indicate the accumulation of winter snows in the mountains and help estimate the springtime runoff from melting snow.

+ While helping to monitor water quality in two Virginia reservoirs, Landsat revealed small lakes that were not depicted on Virginia maps.

+ Landsat imagery is used to help government and private organizations assess flood damage and plan disaster relief and flood control programs.

+ Landsat images clearly show ice types and the distribution, growth, movement, and break-up of sea ice. Shippers can learn which ports are ice free, and chart courses through in largely ice-covered seas, which will help avoid another Titanic accident!

+ Landsat data has been used as courtroom evidence in reaching agreement on land development, to show how air pollution can affect weather, to aid planning for control of forest fires, and to map forest fires in other countries.