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Upcoming Interruption to Landsat Commercial Cloud Access and Product Downloads

Upcoming Interruption to Landsat Commercial Cloud Access and Product Downloads

From 8:00 a.m. CDT Tuesday, June 27th to 4:00 p.m. CDT Wednesday June 28th, access to some Landsat Collection 2 products will be unavailable while...

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Tree Canopy Cover Product Added to National Land Cover Database

Tree Canopy Cover Product Added to National Land Cover Database

A newly released Tree Canopy Cover product adds a helpful layer of information to the definitive land cover product National Land Cover Database (NLCD...

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RCMAP Adds Tree Data to Help ... Sage-Grouse?

RCMAP Adds Tree Data to Help ... Sage-Grouse?

A science project that studies ground cover in rangelands across the West has set its sights higher, adding tree cover data to help protect the...

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EROS Resumes Daily Public Tours

EROS Resumes Daily Public Tours

Free, guided tours at the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center are once again open to the public each day at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m...

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Landsat Level-1 Data Processing Resumes

Landsat Level-1 Data Processing Resumes

On Sunday May 28, 2023 it was reported that Level-1 processing of all newly acquired Landsat 7, 8, and 9 data was halted due to system errors. After...

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Technical Issues Pause Landsat Data Processing

Technical Issues Pause Landsat Data Processing

As of Sunday, May 28, 2023: Technical issues are currently impacting the forward processing of new Landsat products. These issues are being...

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Landsat 9 Data Reprocessing Complete, Level-3 Products Now Available

Landsat 9 Data Reprocessing Complete, Level-3 Products Now Available

The effort to reprocess all Landsat 9 data held in the USGS EROS Archive since launch is now completed, and for the first time, has enabled the...

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Moon Impacts Recent Landsat 9 Thermal Imagery

Moon Impacts Recent Landsat 9 Thermal Imagery

The USGS/NASA Landsat Calibration and Validation Team discovered that four Landsat 9 Earth image intervals acquired on May 10, 2023, were impacted by...

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GOES-16 ABI Added to Land Product Characterization System

GOES-16 ABI Added to Land Product Characterization System

The USGS Land Product Characterization System allows for the trending of system characterizations for various sensors, and provides the ability to do...

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Pecora Nominations Deadline Extended to June 15

Pecora Nominations Deadline Extended to June 15

The deadline for Pecora Award nominations has been extended to June 15, 2023.

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Pete Doucette Named Director of USGS EROS

Pete Doucette Named Director of USGS EROS

Pete Doucette has been named Director of the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, after serving as Acting Director since March...

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