Images

EROS Employee Aaron Neugebauer holding fish from the EROS pond. 

A false color Landsat 5 image from July 22, 1985, of Waubay Lake and Bitter Lake in Day County, South Dakota.

What look like pale yellow paint streaks slashing through a mosaic of mottled colors are ridges of wind-blown sand that make up Erg Iguidi, an area of ever-shifting sand dunes extending from Algeria into Mauritania in northwestern Africa.

Shimmering blues and greens accentuate the textures of the Sierra de Velasco Mountains of northern Argentina. The urban area (pinkish circle) near the lower left part of the mountain range is La Rioja, the capital of the province of La Rioja.

Historical Restoration Includes Sioux Falls (E-651-810BN) B

1984 Washington DC EPA Low Oblique 

1984 International Remote Sensing Workshop Poster

Sioux Falls SD, image from CIR Aircraft (E-640-99BN)

Clouds encircle the lofty rim of Africa's Mount Elgon, a huge, long-extinct volcano on the border between Uganda and Kenya. The solitary volcano has one of the world's largest intact calderas, a cauldron-like central depression.

Landsat 4's first light image captured eastern Lake Erie, and the cities of Toledo, Detroit, and Windsor on July 25, 1982. Although the Landsat program had been collecting images of the Earth since 1972, this was the first time that the data could be depicted as a natural color image due to the new Thematic Mapper sensor onboard Landsat 4.

The first Landsat 4 image was acquired over western Lake Erie on July 25, 1982, just 9 days after launch. This image shows the Detroit River dividing the metropolitan areas of Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario while acting as a strait between Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair.

This photo shows Mount St. Helens in 1982, 2 years after the volcano erupted on May 18, 1980. Spirit Lake is in the foreground. 

Compare this picture to one taken in 1980 before the eruption to see the changes made to the landscape.  

This photo shows Mount St. Helens before the volcano erupted on May 18, 1980. Spirit Lake is in the foreground. 

Compare this picture to one taken in 1982 to see the changes made by the eruption. 

USGS provides remote sensing science training for visitors. This is a field trip to Badlands National Park.

USGS EROS provides remote sensing science training for visitors in 1979. This is a man using a stereoscope to look at satellite images.

USGS provides remote sensing science training for visitors in 1979.

Captured with an Olympus Digital Camera.

USGS provides remote sensing science training for visitors. This image shows visitors seeing Mount Rushmore.

These Landsat images show logging’s influence around the dark green protected forests. Many of the small pink spots in the lower left corner and across the right side of the 1984 scene are logging sites revealed through Landsat 5’s Thematic Mapper sensor.

One of Landsat 3’s first images, captured by the Multispectral Scanner (MSS) 4 days after launch, features a slice of Northern California on March 7, 1978. San Jose sits in Santa Clara Valley touching the southernmost portion of San Francisco. This image showcases the urbanization of the valley, which exploded in the 1970s as Silicon Valley grew.

In-house data processing systems at USGS EROS, shown here in 1976, supported research based on aerial photography and satellite data. 

The Multispectral Scanner (MSS) onboard the Landsat 2 satellite captured the data used to create this color infrared image on May 15,1975. Chesapeake Bay leads up the image to Baltimore, Maryland, and the Potomac River leads west and north up to Washington, DC.