Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center
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Below you'll find the most recent news about EROS and USGS. Please contact Jan Nelson at jsnelson@usgs.gov for assistance with specific media questions and requests.
Indigenous Artwork Celebrates USGS, Geoscience Australia Landsat Partnership
A multi-decade partnership between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Geoscience Australia (GA) to monitor Earth’s landscapes using Landsat satellites now includes a new but also ancestral connection to their respective homelands.
JACIE Team Meets with Man who Inspired Satellite Compendium
The Joint Agency Commercial Imagery Evaluation (JACIE) recently released a compendium of Land Remote Sensing Satellites.
The need for a quick-reference guide to satellite sensors is important for plenty of reasons, but the circular points to one man in particular as an inspiration for...
Aerial Photo Scan Reveals Rare Image of Two Airplanes in Flight
Every work day at the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, contractor Mike Austad pulls up a chair and begins scanning aerial photographs of the Earth’s surface into the massive public database that is EarthExplorer.
EROS Aids in Surveys of Greenhouse Gas-emitting Arctic Lakes
In the Arctic, there are lakes where the bubbles will burn.
The bubbles are filled with methane gas. The flammable archaeal belches form as microbes feast on stores of long-frozen organic matter, freed up for decomposition thanks to permafrost thawing somewhere deep beneath the lakebed.
New EROS Satellite Products, Research Begin to Detail Urban Hot Spots
Cities are hotter than countrysides. That much was known long before efforts began to quantify the urban heat island (UHI) effect with data points.
New Earth As Art Collection Now Available
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center is proud to announce the 6th addition to Earth As Art.
Pecora Award Honors Excellence in Earth Observation
Two awardees have been recognized with the 2019 William T. Pecora Award for achievements in Earth remote sensing.
Visiting Scientists Will Bring EROS Water Monitoring Tools, Practices Home to Iraq
A group of four Iraqi scientists landed in Sioux Falls, SD recently to begin taking the final steps toward the fulfillment of a goal set in motion a decade ago for the Middle Eastern nation: A data-rich, self-sustaining water resource monitoring program.
EROS Has Request of Federal Agencies: Send Us Your UAS Data
With Federal agencies turning more and more to drone technology to help fight wildfires, map wildlife habitat, and monitor natural resources, the managers of the largest civilian archive of remotely sensed data on the planet have a simple request of them.
Send all that data from your Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) to us.
GOFC-GOLD: Improving Global Forest Monitoring While Building Collegialism
After the storm, after Cyclone Idai exacted widespread death and destruction across Southeast Africa in March 2019, Dominick Kwesha turned to his friends at the Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center for assistance.
USGS EROS Launches ‘Eyes on Earth’ podcast
Satellite data is everywhere. It’s in the swirling clouds of the nightly news weather forecasts and the land surface maps beneath them. It’s in our pockets, showing up as base layers in smartphone mapping applications.
Science Branch Chief Retires as a Man of Many Hats, Many Accomplishments at EROS
He started at EROS in November 1980. His first job—data analyst in Science and Applications. From there, John Dwyer traveled a wide-ranging and opportunistic path through what he calls an incredibly satisfying career here at the Center.