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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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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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AVHRR Played Key Role in Influencing Trajectory of EROS Science

AVHRR Played Key Role in Influencing Trajectory of EROS Science

A few months back, in the fall of 2019, a handful of current and former staffers from the Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center met at...

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A Decade from Above: Landsat Imagery from the 2010s

A Decade from Above: Landsat Imagery from the 2010s

Another decade has come and gone.

The decade of the 2010s was a monumental one for the Landsat program, marking the first full decade of free and open...

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Landsat, EROS Factor Heavily in New National Policy Plan for Earth Observation

Landsat, EROS Factor Heavily in New National Policy Plan for Earth Observation

The Landsat program and the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center have long held and important place in the nation’s Earth...

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Meet the USGS Landsat Project Scientist and Landsat Science Team Co-Chair

Meet the USGS Landsat Project Scientist and Landsat Science Team Co-Chair

Christopher “Chris” Crawford likes to say his roles with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) as a research physical scientist, the Landsat Project...

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Landsat, Collections Forum Updates Missions, Products, and Future Possibilities

Landsat, Collections Forum Updates Missions, Products, and Future Possibilities

EROS officials used a noon forum on Monday (Dec. 2) to provide high-level updates on multiple Landsat fronts—from progress on the building of Landsat...

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Combining Remotely Sensed and Field Data to Investigate Pre- and Post-fire Vegetation Changes

Combining Remotely Sensed and Field Data to Investigate Pre- and Post-fire Vegetation Changes

Understanding the factors that influence vegetation responses to disturbance is important because vegetation is the foundation of food resources...

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Global Study Finds Algal Blooms Intensifying in Freshwater Lakes Worldwide

Global Study Finds Algal Blooms Intensifying in Freshwater Lakes Worldwide

A study of global freshwater algal blooms funded in part by a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Landsat Science Team (LST) Award has found that harmful...

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International Cooperators Find Value, Collaboration in Joining Landsat Network

International Cooperators Find Value, Collaboration in Joining Landsat Network

Landsat’s eyes in the sky captured a riveting story of rebirth across Australia’s central deserts this past spring of 2019.

Floodwaters from...

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Indigenous Artwork Celebrates USGS, Geoscience Australia Landsat Partnership

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...

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JACIE Team Meets with Man who Inspired Satellite Compendium

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...

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