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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.
When disaster strikes, near-real-time images of its effects can be invaluable. This episode of our remote sensing podcast describes the effort to map disturbances in Florida from Hurricane Ian in near real time.
Drought over the past 20 years in the Colorado River Basin and a growing demand for water have brought Lake Mead to historically low levels. View the lake's change over time in Landsat images.
