Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center
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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.
What's New at EROS?
The LCMAP project has released sample data for California’s Central Valley. All 10 of the project’s land change and spectral change products are represented.
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A new thermal area has emerged in Yellowstone National Park over the course of 20 years. Aerial and satellite imagery shows the growth of the hot zone.
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Famine Early Warning Systems Network, EROS Join Forces Against Global Hunger
In March 1993, South African photographer Kevin Carter captured an iconic image near the village of Ayod in southern Sudan that made the world weep.
Through the camera lens, a vulture watched as an emaciated child languished in the dirt on her way to a feeding station—an photograph that became a metaphor for famine and despair in Africa.
Landsat Collection 2 Summary, Sample Metadata Now Available
With the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) putting the finishing touches on its Landsat Collection 2 product, it’s taking several steps to ensure that the Landsat user community has sufficient time to augment its current Landsat Collection-based data processing flow.
EROS, AVHRR Help Kansas Remote Sensing Program Tell Country’s Vegetation Story
In the spring of 1996, the Kansas Applied Remote Sensing (KARS) program on the campus of Kansas University started chronicling the greening and browning of America.
Publications
Landsat 9
Landsat 9 is a partnership between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) that will continue the Landsat program’s critical role of repeat global observations for monitoring, understanding, and managing Earth’s natural resources. Since 1972, Landsat data have provided a unique resource for...
Radiometric calibration of a non-imaging airborne spectrometer to measure the Greenland ice sheet surface
Methods to radiometrically calibrate a non-imaging airborne visible-to-shortwave infrared (VSWIR) spectrometer to measure the Greenland ice sheet surface are presented. Airborne VSWIR measurement performance for bright Greenland ice and dark bare rock/soil targets is compared against the MODerate resolution atmospheric TRANsmission (MODTRAN®)...
Crawford, Christopher J.; van den Bosch, Jeannette; Brunt, Kelly M.; Hom, Milton G.; Cooper, John W.; Harding, David J.; Butler, James J.; Dabney, Philip W.; Neumann, Thomas A.; Cleckner, Craig S.; Markus, Thorsten Validating a time series of annual grass percent cover in the sagebrush ecosystem
We mapped yearly (2000–2016) estimates of annual grass percent cover for much of the sagebrush ecosystem of the western United States using remotely sensed, climate, and geophysical data in regression-tree models. Annual grasses senesce and cure by early summer and then become beds of fine fuel that easily ignite and spread fire...
Boyte, Stephen P.; Wylie, Bruce K.; Major, Donald J.