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At the USGS EROS Center, we study land change and produce land change data products used by researchers, resource managers, and policy makers across the nation and around the world. We also operate the Landsat satellite program with NASA, and maintain the largest civilian collection of images of the Earth’s land surface in existence, including tens of millions of satellite images.
Eyes on Earth
Imagery from Landsat satellites can help scientists track damage to trees caused by an invasive insect the size of a poppy seed. Listen to episode 52 to learn how.
Listen hereImage of the Week
Our latest Image of the Week video uses 400 Landsat scenes to illustarate the changes to Chile's Atacama Desert brought about by the evaporative mining process used to extract lithium for use in batteries.
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Land Use Models from EROS Offer Insight, Management Guidance for Delaware River Basin
In the mid-1960s, the city of Philadelphia faced a potential public health crisis.
Looking at Past, Future Spread of Invasive Plants Like Cheatgrass
A new publication about exotic annual grasses not only documents their abundance across the western United States, but peers into the past to assess their spread and into the future to predict changes.
LANDFIRE Releases Disturbance Data for 2017-19 with LF 2019 Limited
A year ago, the Landscape Fire and Resource Planning Management Tools (LANDFIRE) Program released its 2016 Remap for the conterminous United States (CONUS).
The update was the most significant in LANDFIRE’s 16-year history, a ground-up rebuild of the base map to reflect 2016 land surface conditions that included a host of improvements to its 20-...
Publications
System characterization of Earth observation sensors
This U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report provides information from assessments of Earth observation sensors completed by the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Cal/Val Center of Excellence. These reports are provided as independent measures of basic system performance by the Earth Resources Observation and Science...
Ramaseri Chandra, Shankar N.
System characterization report on the WorldView-3 Imager
Executive SummaryThis report addresses system characterization of the Maxar WorldView-3 satellite and is part of a series of system characterization reports produced and delivered by the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Cal/Val Center of Excellence in 2020. These reports present and detail the methodology and...
Cantrell, Simon J.; Christopherson, Jon B.; Anderson, Cody; Stensaas, Gregory L.; Ramaseri Chandra, Shankar N.; Kim, Minsu; Park, Seonkyung
System characterization report on the Gaofen-1
Executive SummaryThis report addresses system characterization of Gaofen-1 and is part of a series of system characterization reports produced and delivered by the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Cal/Val Center of Excellence in 2020. These reports present the detail methodology and procedures for characterization;...
Shrestha, Mahesh; Sampath, Aparajithan; Ramaseri Chandra, Shankar N.; Christopherson, Jon B.; Shaw, Jerad; Stensaas, Gregory L.; Anderson, Cody