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Denali, Tallgrass at EROS Launch New Era in High-Performance Computing Capabilities

Denali, Tallgrass at EROS Launch New Era in High-Performance Computing Capabilities

One of the challenges in prototyping and evaluating research projects related to the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Land Change Monitoring...

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Wildfire Support from 438 Miles Above

Wildfire Support from 438 Miles Above

USGS Fire Science is fundamental to understanding the causes, consequences, and benefits of wildfire and helps prevent and manage larger, catastrophic...

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Calibration Test Site Becomes Agricultural Hotspot

Calibration Test Site Becomes Agricultural Hotspot

The Landsat satellites were designed to detect landscape changes over time. However, sometimes what Landsat needs to see on the Earth’s surface is no...

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Geoscience Australia’s Oliver Discusses Use of Landsat during Country’s Historic Fires

Geoscience Australia’s Oliver Discusses Use of Landsat during Country’s Historic Fires

Australia’s historic fires, the Black Summer fires, raged from September 2019 into February of 2020, and weren’t fully extinguished until this past...

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From Concept to Reality, USGS Land Change, Monitoring, Assessment and Projection Pushes Boundaries in Service of Science

From Concept to Reality, USGS Land Change, Monitoring, Assessment and Projection Pushes Boundaries in Service of Science

More than a decade ago, Tom Loveland sat down to sketch out a few thoughts on land change and the Landsat archive.

The archive was and remains rich...

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Satellite Constellations: Taking a Collective Look at Earth from 705 Kilometers Overhead

Satellite Constellations: Taking a Collective Look at Earth from 705 Kilometers Overhead

Jim Lacasse, the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Landsat Mission Operations Project Manager out at the Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS)...

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Rising Seas: EROS Brings Valuable Elevation Knowledge to Islands, Coastlines

Rising Seas: EROS Brings Valuable Elevation Knowledge to Islands, Coastlines

As sea levels rise around the planet, as storm surges threaten islands and coastal communities, decision makers face a lot of questions about how to...

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Data Quality, Geometric Accuracy are Key Topics for 2020 JACIE and ECCOE Workshops

Data Quality, Geometric Accuracy are Key Topics for 2020 JACIE and ECCOE Workshops

In a world where observing Earth’s landscapes from space has become more common for government agencies and commercial ventures, there is a question...

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EROS Scientists Publish Accuracy, Guidance for Global Evapotranspiration Data

EROS Scientists Publish Accuracy, Guidance for Global Evapotranspiration Data

Evapotranspiration (ET) presents a difficult problem.

Evaporation from the Earth’s surface and transpiration from the leaves of plants accounts for...

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EROS Reaches Out to Kids with Landsat Activities

EROS Reaches Out to Kids with Landsat Activities

The Communication & Outreach (C&O) team at the Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center is working on some quick ways to connect with...

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Pixel by Pixel: How the USGS, U.S. Forest Service Checked the Work of a Computerized Landsat Mapping Project

Pixel by Pixel: How the USGS, U.S. Forest Service Checked the Work of a Computerized Landsat Mapping Project

About a year ago, scientist Bruce Pengra sat at his desk with a conundrum.

As part of the team working on the reference dataset for the USGS Land...

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USGS Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection releases ‘unprecedented’ reference dataset for United States

USGS Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection releases ‘unprecedented’ reference dataset for United States

The USGS Land Change Monitoring, Assessment and Projection (LCMAP) team has released its reference dataset for the Conterminous U.S. (CONUS), an 25...

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