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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.
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Eyes on Earth is a podcast covering a range of topics on remote sensing, satellite operations, and the science of Earth observation. Watch for new episodes every two weeks.
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In a remote part of the Sahara Desert in Egypt, center pivot irrigation fields fill the landscape. Thanks to the Landsat archive, we can see how dramatically this area has changed over the last 35 years.
Watering the SaharaNews
Bauer Discusses Peer Review’s Role in Strengthening Remote Sensing Science
Remote sensing is not an especially recognized scientific discipline, at least in comparison to fields like biology, chemistry, or medicine.
Denali, Tallgrass at EROS Launch New Era in High-Performance Computing Capabilities
One of the challenges in prototyping and evaluating research projects related to the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP) initiative has been what software engineers call “the last mile problem.”
Calibration Test Site Becomes Agricultural Hotspot
The Landsat satellites were designed to detect landscape changes over time. However, sometimes what Landsat needs to see on the Earth’s surface is no change at all.
Publications
Changes to Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity Program’s production procedures and data products
The Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) program has been providing the fire science community with large fire perimeter and burn severity data for the past 14 years. As of October 2019, 22 969 fires have been mapped by the MTBS program and are available on the MTBS website (https://www.mtbs.gov). These data have been widely used by...
Picotte, Joshua J.; Bhattarai, Krishna P.; Howard, Daniel; Lecker, Jennifer; Epting, Justin; Quayle, Brad; Benson, Nate; Nelson, Kurtis
Land change monitoring, assessment, and projection
There is a pressing need to monitor and understand the rapid land change happening around the world. The U.S. Geological Survey is developing a new capability, called Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP), to innovate the understanding of land change. This capability is the Earth Resources Observation and Science Center's...
Rover, Jennifer; Brown, Jesslyn F.; Auch, Roger F.; Sayler, Kristi L.; Sohl, Terry L.; Tollerud, Heather J.; Xian, George Z. Algorithm and data improvements for version 2.1 of the Climate Hazards center’s InfraRed Precipitation with Stations Data Set
To support global drought early warning, the Climate Hazards Center (CHC) at the University of California, Santa Barbara developed the Climate Hazards center InfraRed Precipitation with Stations (CHIRPS) dataset, in collaboration with the US Geological Survey and NASA SERVIR. Specifically designed to support early warning applications, CHIRPS has...
Funk, Chris; Peterson, P.; Landsfeld, Martin; Davenport, Frank; Becker, A; Schneider, U; Pedreros, Diego; McNally, Amy; Arsenault, Kristi; Harrison, Laura; Shukla, S.