Data Citation

USGS Products

The USGS EROS Center systems provide access to a variety of products from USGS sources. 

Some specific examples of USGS products would include:

• Aerial Photography such as Digital Orthophoto Quadrangles (DOQs)
• Landsat products
• EO-1 products
• Land Cover products such as National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD)
• Vegetation Monitoring products such as VegDRI, QuickDRI, and eMODIS

Acknowledgement or credit of the USGS as data source should be provided by including a line of text citation such as the example shown below.

(Product, Image, Photograph, or Dataset Name) courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey

• Example: Landsat-7 image courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey

See the USGS Visual Identity System Guidance for further details on proper citation and acknowledgement of USGS products.

LP DAAC Products

The USGS EROS Center supports delivery and access systems for a variety of NASA’s LP DAAC science datasets.

Specific examples of LP DAAC datasets would include:

• Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER)
• Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)
• Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS)
• Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs)

The appropriate citation of NASA’s LP DAAC datasets are product-specific and should follow the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) string standard. For any dataset, the specific construction of the correct citation information can be found on the DOI Landing page for each individual product and can be accessed below:

• ASTER
• MODIS
• VIIRS 
• MEaSUREs
  • ECOSTRESS
  • GEDI
  • HLS
  • G-LiHT

For further details and information on the proper citation and acknowledgment of LP DAAC products, please refer to Citing Our Data.