Helping the World Through Science

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.

Eyes on Earth

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This episode of our remote sensing podcast is the second to highlight alumni who attended the EROS 50th anniversary events, focusing on the science and international outlook of EROS.

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Image of the Week

Image of the planet with "Fires in Canada May 2023" written across the top

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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News

September 27, 2023

Using the Power of Landsat and Digital Earth Tools to Understand Coastlines in Australia and Africa

September 25, 2023

New Paper Promotes the 50-year Landsat Collection 2 Archive

September 14, 2023

EROS 50th History: Responding to Disasters

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Publications

September 26, 2023

ECCOE Landsat quarterly Calibration and Validation report—Quarter 2, 2023

Executive SummaryThe U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Calibration and Validation (Cal/Val) Center of Excellence (ECCOE) focuses on improving the accuracy, precision, calibration, and product quality of remote-sensing data, leveraging years of multiscale optical system geometric and radiometric calibration and characterization experience. The ECCOE Landsat Cal/Val Team

Authors

Md. Obaidul Haque, Rajagopalan Rengarajan, Mark Lubke, Md Nahid Hasan, Ashish Shrestha, Fatima Tuz Zafrin Tuli, Jerad L. Shaw, Alex Denevan, Shannon Franks, Kathryn Ruslander, Esad Micijevic, Michael J. Choate, Cody Anderson, Kurt Thome, Ed Kaita, Julia Barsi, Raviv Levy, Jeff Miller, Leibo Ding

Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center

September 22, 2023

The 50-year Landsat collection 2 archive

The Landsat global consolidated data archive now exceeds 50 years. In recognition of the need for consistently processed data across the Landsat satellite series, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) initiated collection-based processing of the entire archive that was processed as Collection 1 in 2016. In preparation for the data from the now successfully launched Landsat 9, the USGS reprocessed the

Authors

Christopher J. Crawford, David P. Roy, Saeed Arab, Christopher Barnes, Eric Vermote, Glynn Hulley, Aaron Gerace, Michael J. Choate, Christopher Engebretson, Esad Micijevic, Gail L. Schmidt, Cody Anderson, Martha Anderson, Michelle Bouchard, Bruce D. Cook, Ray Dittmeier, Danny Howard, Calli Jenkerson, Minsu Kim, Tania Kleyians, Tom Maiersperger, Chase Mueller, Christopher Neigh, Linda Owen, Benjamin Page, Nima Pahelvan, Rajagopalan Rengarajan, Jean-Claude Roger, Kristi Sayler, Pat L Scaramuzza, Sergii Skakun, Lin Yan, Hankui K. Zhang, Zhe Zhu, Stephen G. Zahn

Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center

September 18, 2023

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

Authors

Gabriel B. Senay, David A. Helweg, Stefanie Kagone, John B. Taylor, Thomas Cecere, Tiare Eastmond, Amy Koch, Kurtis Nelson, Lajikit Rufus

Ecosystems Mission Area, Climate Adaptation Science Centers, National Geospatial Program, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center

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Science

Comparing Landsat Collection 2 Level-2 Surface Reflectance Red Band for MODIS and VIIRS

October 2, 2023

USGS EROS Archive - Landsat - Atmospheric Auxiliary Data - VIIRS C2 Subset

The VIIRS aerosol daily Level-3 Climate Modeling Grid (CMG) is used in Landsat 8-9 Surface Reflectance algorithm. The VIIRS CMG products are accessed from the Global daily level 3 retrieved from the NASA's Level 1 and Atmosphere Archive & Distribution System Distributed Active Archive Center (LAADS DAAC). The ozone and water vapor datasets are extracted, and gap filled for LaSRC processing.

Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center , Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center

October 2, 2023

USGS EROS Archive - Landsat - Atmospheric Auxiliary Data - VIIRS C2 Subset

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September 25, 2023

Eyes on Earth Episode 104 – EROS 50th: Alumni and Friends, Part 2

This second special alumni edition of the Eyes on Earth podcast features stories told by former employees and others about science, technology and the international outlook at EROS.

Core Science Systems Mission Area, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center

September 25, 2023

Eyes on Earth Episode 104 – EROS 50th: Alumni and Friends, Part 2

This second special alumni edition of the Eyes on Earth podcast features stories told by former employees and others about science, technology and the international outlook at EROS.

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September 18, 2023

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.

Core Science Systems Mission Area, National Land Imaging Program, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center

September 18, 2023

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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