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Land Cover Change in Senegal
Photographs from 1994 and 2010 show the expansion of vegetation in Senegal. The images are included in the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center book "Landscapes of West Africa: A Window on a Changing World." Geographer G. Gray Tappan used rephotography of sites across West Africa over the span
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FY06 Archive and Media Study
FY06 Archive and Media Study, from the National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive
Great Pine Tier fire - Tasmania
These Landsat 8 images depict the damage done by the Great Pine Tier fire in Tasmania’s Central Plateau. The first image was acquired on Jan. 13, 2019, three days before the Tasmania Fire Service announced that lightning strikes had ignited dozens of fires across the island state. The second shot,
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South America Land Cover Characteristics Data Base Version 2.0
Global Land Cover Characteristics (GLCC) - South America Land Cover Characteristics Data Base Version 2.0
1967 American Astronautical Society Annual Meeting-CF Luce
1967 American Astronautical Society Annual Meeting-Under Secretary of the Interior, C. F. Luce Remarks - EROS History Project
National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive Collection Policy
The National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive (NSLRSDA) managed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, is the largest civilian archive of remotely sensed land imagery in the world. The NSLRSDA was created to identify, collect, preserve, and make available land-based, remotely sensed imagery. The collection
Senegal vegetation change
Photographs from 1984 and 2004 show the loss of vegetation cover on a landscape in Senegal. The images were used to inform the work included in the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center book "Landscapes of West Africa: A Window on a Changing World." Geographer G. Gray Tappan used rephotography
...FY04 Archive and Media Study
FY04 Archive and Media Study, from the National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive
Hurricane Harvey Flooding
Extensive flooding inundated the Gulf Coast of Texas after Hurricane Harvey made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane on August 25, 2017. Among the many waterways in southeastern Texas that exceeded flood stage was the Brazos River, which flows past Houston to its west and to the Gulf of Mexico at Freeport. A USGS streamgage on the Brazos near Rosharon showed that a river
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