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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.
The latest episode of our remote sensing podcast explores a tool that sifts through publicly available data sources to map wildfire movement day by day across the U.S. ECOSTRESS data has been a boon to the project
The tallest volcano on the Galapagos Islands began erupting on January 6. The eruption sent lava flows down the mountainside and ash skyward. Landsat 8 captured its lava flows a week later.
