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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.
Several guests from past Eyes on Earth episodes share how they value the Landsat imagery and archive, from forests and fires to lakes and cities.
Mississippi leads the U.S. in catfish production. Pond acreage dropped by more than half from 2003 to 2013, however, as catfish gave way to other agricultural commodities. Landsat imagery captured across the decades documents the land use change.
