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Landsat satellite data have never been as valuable or as useful to the science and applications community as they are today.

Landsat research was once...

For all of Landsat’s value to the United States—a 2017 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) study placed the annual economic benefit of its data to this...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center is pleased to announce the December release of Landsat...

In his regular job, EROS Scientist Kurtis Nelson manages post-fire mapping activities at EROS—the largest being Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity...

The USGS lost a good friend and partner earlier this year – Dr. Michael Freilich, former Director of NASA’s Earth Science Division. The renaming of an...

When it comes to understanding the changing planet, or simply managing natural resources in a more efficient manner, Dr. Curtis Woodcock says the...

The release of a change dataset for North America’s three largest countries will enable GIS researchers to more easily study continent-scale land use...

A new, freely-available digital elevation dataset born of international collaboration has the potential to improve the quality of Landsat and Sentinel...

The fires of Hawaii don’t follow the rules of their continental counterparts. There are fire risk factors at play in the island chain that states like...

The USGS Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP) initiative is offering two Mendenhall Fellowships to improve its land change...