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Billions of people live unaware of a far-off USGS facility working every day to improve their lives

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How Sioux Falls Ingenuity Secured the Center

The First in a Series on EROS 50th History

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Landsat 8 State Mosaics

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Landsat - A Pillar of Land Remote Sensing

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Eyes on Earth

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.

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Landsat Benefits, State by State

How does your state use Landsat data?

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Data and Science Surge at EROS Center

Third in a series Highlighting EROS 50th History Stories

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Change Stories

Every Pixel Tells a Story

LCMAP Change Stories

Landsat in the Cloud

Flexible, Customized Access to Satellite Data

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Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center

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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This episode of our remote sensing podcast highlights speeches by and interviews with alumni who attended the EROS 50th anniversary events, focusing on the history and people of EROS.

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Image of the Week

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Smoke filled the skies over western Canada and even much of the United States in May 2023. The source was several wildfires in Alberta and British Columbia.

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EROS 50th History: Responding to Disasters

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Upcoming Webinar to Highlight Landsat

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EROS 50th History: Landsat Unites USGS and NASA

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Publications

Developing satellite-estimated precipitation monthly reports for selected locations in the Republic of the Marshall Islands

The Republic of the Marshall Islands (also known as the Marshall Islands) is a nation of more than 30 low-lying atolls and islands, most of which are inhabited, dispersed across an Exclusive Economic Zone over 770,000 square miles in the tropical central north Pacific Ocean. Monitoring environmental conditions for potential drought risk is challenging in such a dispersed island nation, and current
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Gabriel B. Senay, David A. Helweg, Stefanie Kagone, John B. Taylor, Thomas Cecere, Tiare Eastmond, Amy Koch, Kurtis Nelson, Lajikit Rufus
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Climate Adaptation Science Centers, National Geospatial Program, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center

Predicting exotic annual grass abundance in rangelands of the western United States using various precipitation scenarios

Expansion of exotic annual grass (EAG), such as cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.) and medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae [L.] Nevski), could cause irreversible changes to arid and semiarid rangeland ecosystems in the western United States. The distribution and abundance of EAG species are highly affected by weather variables such as temperature and precipitation. The study's goal is to understan
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Devendra Dahal, Stephen P. Boyte, Michael Oimoen
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Improvements and evaluation of the agro-hydrologic VegET model for large-area water budget analysis and drought monitoring

We enhanced the agro-hydrologic VegET model to include snow accumulation and melt processes and the separation of runoff into surface runoff and deep drainage. Driven by global weather datasets and parameterized by land surface phenology (LSP), the enhanced VegET model was implemented in the cloud to simulate daily soil moisture (SM), actual evapotranspiration (ETa), and runoff (R) for the conterm
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Gabriel B. Senay, Stefanie Kagone, Gabriel Edwin Lee Parrish, Kul Bikram Khand, Olena Boiko, Naga Manohar Velpuri
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Eyes on Earth Episode 103 – EROS 50th: Alumni and Friends, Part 1

This special alumni edition of the Eyes on Earth podcast features stories told by former employees and others about the history and people at EROS.
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Core Science Systems Mission Area, National Land Imaging Program, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center
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Eyes on Earth Episode 103 – EROS 50th: Alumni and Friends, Part 1

This special alumni edition of the Eyes on Earth podcast features stories told by former employees and others about the history and people at EROS.
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Eyes on Earth Episode 102 – LANDFIRE 2022 Update

LANDFIRE, a trusted source for fire-related data, has started releasing key information even faster.
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Core Science Systems Mission Area, National Land Imaging Program, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center , Wildland Fire Science
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Eyes on Earth Episode 102 – LANDFIRE 2022 Update

LANDFIRE, a trusted source for fire-related data, has started releasing key information even faster.
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Eyes on Earth Episode 101 – EROS 50th: Director Pete Doucette Looks Ahead

In its 50th anniversary year, EROS received a new leader who celebrates the past while embracing the future.
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Core Science Systems Mission Area, National Land Imaging Program, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center , EROS History Project
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Eyes on Earth Episode 101 – EROS 50th: Director Pete Doucette Looks Ahead

In its 50th anniversary year, EROS received a new leader who celebrates the past while embracing the future.
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