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Below you'll find the most recent news about EROS and USGS. Please contact Michelle Bouchard at mbouchard@usgs.gov for assistance with specific media questions and requests.

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Mapping Near-Surface Permafrost: EROS Work Important for Studying Arctic

Mapping Near-Surface Permafrost: EROS Work Important for Studying Arctic

Imagine, Neal Pastick says, if the infrastructure under your house disappeared. If the concrete forms or block basement walls disintegrated over time...

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LCMAP Promises New Insight on Land Surface Change

LCMAP Promises New Insight on Land Surface Change

Landsat satellite imagery has been a boon to the study of the Earth’s surface for nearly five decades, but researchers at the USGS Earth Resources...

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Landsat Science Team Briefed on Landsat 9 Development, Landsat 7 End of Life, and More

Landsat Science Team Briefed on Landsat 9 Development, Landsat 7 End of Life, and More

Landsat Science Team (LST) members meeting in early February in Phoenix, AZ, were briefed or provided input on a number of important issues involving...

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Landsat Data Moving to Public Cloud in Early 2020

Landsat Data Moving to Public Cloud in Early 2020

The USGS is placing a copy of its consolidated Landsat global data inventory into a commercial cloud in early 2020.

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A Landsat Milestone: One Hundred Million Downloads

A Landsat Milestone: One Hundred Million Downloads

When the world began downloading the first freely available Landsat images on Oct. 1, 2008, a lot of people wondered just how much imagery would fly...

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Users Realize Significant Economic, Societal Benefits of Landsat

Users Realize Significant Economic, Societal Benefits of Landsat

What’s the value of data acquired from Landsat sensors when it comes to tracking toxic algal blooms in freshwater lakes? In monitoring vital habitat...

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New USGS EROS Maps to Offer Aid in Understanding, Management of Invasive Grasses

New USGS EROS Maps to Offer Aid in Understanding, Management of Invasive Grasses

The conception of an invasive species in popular culture is generally tied to living things more mobile than cheatgrass – think zebra mussels in the...

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EROS contributes to New Land Cover Maps for U.S., Canada, Mexico

EROS contributes to New Land Cover Maps for U.S., Canada, Mexico

The three largest countries in North America share trade, climate and culture in a host of broad and specific ways. A new set of land cover maps for...

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EROS Upgrades Fire Danger Forecast Mapping Tools

EROS Upgrades Fire Danger Forecast Mapping Tools

Tracking large fire potential in the past, present, and future through remotely sensed data just got a lot simpler.

The Fire Danger Forecast project...

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Looking into the Future: The Art and Science of Land Use Projections

Looking into the Future: The Art and Science of Land Use Projections

Terry Sohl is fairly unique among U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) research physical scientists at the Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS)...

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EROS Fire Scientists Look at Potential Use of Lidar for Operational Burn Mapping

EROS Fire Scientists Look at Potential Use of Lidar for Operational Burn Mapping

Fires that rage through forests, consuming vegetation on the ground and spreading into canopies, almost always leave important questions behind when...

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Space Debris Remains Ongoing Concern for Landsat, Other Satellites

Space Debris Remains Ongoing Concern for Landsat, Other Satellites

Space, it turns out, can be a messy place.

Sixty years of manned and unmanned space flight have left a cosmic junkyard circling the planet. From spent...

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