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Which satellite bands are best suited for your research?

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JACIE 2024 Workshop

March 11-14, 2024

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Land Remote Sensing Satellites Online Compendium

Information on past, current and future land remote sensing satellites and the sensors they carry

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Worldwide Test Site Catalog

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Landsat 9 Data Now Available

USGS Technical Release Announcement

Landsat Collection 2

Includes updated global digital elevation modeling sources, absolute geolocation accuracy, and interoperability improvements

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EROS CalVal Center of Excellence (ECCOE)

The EROS Cal/Val Center of Excellence (ECCOE) is a global leader in improving the accuracy, precision, and quality of remote sensing data. 

ECCOE-Supported Projects

ECCOE Staff provide technical support to a number of USGS projects that are important in Earth Observation discovery and data characterization: 

Landsat, JACIE, Satellites Compendium
Sources/Usage: Public Domain.
ECCOE maintains primary responsibility for radiometric and geometric characterization and calibration of the Landsat instruments and spacecrafts. The Joint Agency Commercial Imagery Evaluation (JACIE) team assesses the quality and capabilities of newly launched commercial high-resolution satellites. The Land Remote Satellites Online Compendium contains details about past, present and future Earth observing satellites and the sensors they carry. 
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lidar,uas,test site catalog images
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Lidar data and their derivative metrics are fundamental inputs to many areas of scientific research,  including flood, erosion, and coastal modeling. Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) allow for new opportunities for gathering data essential to land management and Earth science. The Test Site Catalog Contains worldwide calibration sites used for post launch characterization and calibration of space-based optical imaging sensors.
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News

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New Paper Promotes the 50-year Landsat Collection 2 Archive

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Upcoming Webinar to Highlight Landsat

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Landsat Ground Station Operators Working Group 51st Meeting Held in Norway

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Publications

Guidelines for calibration of uncrewed aircraft systems imagery

Executive SummaryThis report outlines quality assurance (QA) processes, including radiometric and geometric calibration guidelines, and guidelines for data acquisition and quality control to be followed by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) researchers for acquiring and processing uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) data. These QA processes ensure that UAS data can be used for quantitative analysis and are
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Aparajithan Sampath, Mahesh Shrestha, Michelle While, Victoria Mary Scholl
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National Land Imaging Program, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center , Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, EROS CalVal Center of Excellence (ECCOE)

ECCOE Landsat quarterly Calibration and Validation report—Quarter 1, 2023

Executive SummaryThe U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Calibration and Validation (Cal/Val) Center of Excellence (ECCOE) focuses on improving the accuracy, precision, calibration, and product quality of remote-sensing data, leveraging years of multiscale optical system geometric and radiometric calibration and characterization experience. The ECCOE Landsat Cal/Val Team
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Md. Obaidul Haque, Rajagopalan Rengarajan, Mark Lubke, Md Nahid Hasan, Ashish Shrestha, Fatima Tuz Zafrin Tuli, Jerad L. Shaw, Alex Denevan, Shannon Franks, Esad Micijevic, Michael J. Choate, Cody Anderson, Kurt Thome, Ed Kaita, Julia Barsi, Raviv Levy, Jeff Miller
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National Land Imaging Program, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center , EROS CalVal Center of Excellence (ECCOE), Memorandums of Understanding (MOU)

Evaluation of Copernicus DEM and comparison to the DEM used for Landsat collection-2 processing

Having highly accurate and reliable Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) of the Earth’s surface is critical to orthorectify Landsat imagery. Without such accuracy, pixel locations reported in the data are difficult to assure as accurate, especially in more mountainous landscapes, where the orthorectification process is the most challenging. To this end, the Landsat Calibration and Validation Team (Cal/
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Shannon Franks, Rajagopalan Rengarajan
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National Land Imaging Program, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center , EROS CalVal Center of Excellence (ECCOE), Landsat Missions
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Science

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Eyes on Earth Episode 94 – EROS 50th: Collaborations with SDSU

South Dakota State University, a land grant university less than an hour from EROS, has had links to Landsat and EROS throughout their existence.
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Core Science Systems Mission Area, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center , EROS CalVal Center of Excellence (ECCOE), EROS History Project, Landsat Legacy, Landsat Missions
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Eyes on Earth Episode 94 – EROS 50th: Collaborations with SDSU

South Dakota State University, a land grant university less than an hour from EROS, has had links to Landsat and EROS throughout their existence.
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Color photo of, from top, Greg Stensaas, Jon Christopherson and Grant Mah with the logo for the USGS podcast "Eyes on Earth"

Eyes on Earth Episode 74 – A Satellite Cross Calibration Mission

Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we hear how a new mission will make it easier to use satellite datasets interchangeably.
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Core Science Systems Mission Area, National Land Imaging Program, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center , EROS CalVal Center of Excellence (ECCOE), Landsat Legacy
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Eyes on Earth Episode 74 – A Satellite Cross Calibration Mission

Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we hear how a new mission will make it easier to use satellite datasets interchangeably.
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