USGS EROS Archive - Products Overview

USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center archive spans from 1937 aerial photographs to millions of satellite images of the Earth’s surface, starting with the original Earth orbits in the 1960’s and first Landsat satellite in 1972, to our current hourly additions of satellite images. Click on any product category to review detailed information on the products, plus how to order or download selected images at no charge.  Data Use and Citation  

Aerial Photography

• Advanced Solid-state Array Spectroradiometer (ASAS)
• Aerial Photo Mosaics
• Aerial Photo Single Frames
• Aircraft Scanner
• Antarctic Flight Line Maps
• Antarctic Single Frame Records
• Digital Orthophoto Quadrangle (DOQs)
• High Resolution Orthoimagery (HRO)
• National Aerial Photography Program (NAPP)
• National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP)
• National High Altitude Photography (NHAP)
• Public Affairs Office (PAO) Image Gallery
• SD Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Section Photography
• Side-Looking Airborne Radar (SLAR) Mosaics
• Space Acquired Photography

Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR)

• Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR)
• AVHRR Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) Composites

Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) Legacy

• Calibration/Validation Test Sites

Commercial Satellites

• Commercial Data Purchases (CDP) Imagery
• OrbView-3
• SPOT - North American Data Buy
• SPOT Controlled Image Base 10 meter (CIB-10)
• SPOT Historical

Declassified Data

• Declassified Satellite Imagery - 1
• Declassified Satellite Imagery - 2
• Declassified Satellite Imagery - 3

Digital Elevation

• Coastal National Elevation Database (CoNED) Project - Topobathymetric Digital Elevation Model (TBDEM)
• Elevation Derivatives for National Applications (EDNA) Seamless Three-Dimensional Hydrologic Database
• Global 30 Arc-Second Elevation (GTOPO30)
• Global Multi-resolution Terrain Elevation Data 2010 (GMTED2010)
• HYDRO1K
• Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (IFSAR) Alaska
• Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) 
  • Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) 1 Arc Second Global
  • Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) Non-Void Fill
  • Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) Research Grade
  • Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) Void Fill
  • Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Water Body Dataset

Digital Line Graphs (DLGs)

• Digital Line Graphs (DLGs) - Large Scale
• Digital Line Graphs (DLGs) - Intermediate Scale

Digital Maps

• National Atlas

Earth Observing One (EO-1)

• EO-1 (Earth Observing-1)
  • EO-1 Advanced Land Imager (ALI)
  • EO-1 Hyperion

Global Fiducials

• Global Fiducials Library

Heat Capacity Mapping Mission (HCMM)

• Heat Capacity Mapping Mission (HCMM)

ISERV

• ISS SERVIR Environmental Research and Visualization System (ISERV)

ISRO Resourcesat

• ISRO Resourcesat 1 and Resourcesat 2 - AWiFS
• ISRO Resourcesat 1 and Resourcesat 2 - LISS-3

Land Cover Products

• Global Land Cover Characterization (GLCC)
• Land Cover Trends Geotagged Photography

Landsat

• Landsat Collection 2 Level-2
  • Landsat 8-9 Operational Land Imager (OLI) and Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) Collection 2 Level-2 Science Products
    • Please note: Landsat 9 data will be available upon successful on-orbit checkout in early 2022.
  • Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) Collection 2 Level-2 Science Products
  • Landsat 4-5 Thematic Mapper (TM) Collection 2 Level-2 Science Products
• Landsat Collection 2 Atmospheric Auxiliary 
  • Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) Emissivity Data (ASTER) is an instrument on the Terra satellite. ASTER Global Emissivity Dataset (GED) (ASTER_GED)
  • Goddard Earth Observing System Model, Version 5, Forward Processing (GEOS-5 FP-IT)
  • Modern Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications Version 2 (MERRA-2) 
  • Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) (MODIS Fused)
  • National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)/National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)  Reanalysis 1 (NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis) 
  • Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS)
• Landsat Collection 2 Analysis Ready Data (ARD) Tiles
• Landsat Collection 2 Level-1
  • Landsat 8-9 Operational Land Imager (OLI) and Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) Collection 2 Level-1 Data
    • Landsat 9 data will not be available until after launch in 2021.
  • Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) Collection 2 Level-1 Data
  • Landsat 4-5 Thematic Mapper (TM) Collection 2 Level-1 Data
  • Landsat 1-5 Multispectral Scanner (MSS) Collection 2 Level-1 Data
• Landsat Collection 1 Level-3
  • Landsat Level-3 Burned Area (BA) Science Product
  • Landsat Level-3 Dynamic Surface Water Extent (DSWE) Science Product
  • Landsat Level-3 Fractional Snow Covered Area (fSCA) Science Product
• Landsat Analysis Ready Data (ARD) Tiles
• Landsat Collection 1 Level-2 (On-Demand)
  • Landsat 8 OLI/TIRS Level-2 Data Products - Surface Reflectance
  • Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) Level-2 Data Products - Surface Reflectance
  • Landsat 4-5 Thematic Mapper (TM) Level-2 Data Products - Surface Reflectance
• Landsat Collection 1 Level-1
  • Landsat 8 OLI (Operational Land Imager) and TIRS (Thermal Infrared Sensor) Level-1 Data Products
  • Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) Level-1 Data Products
  • Landsat 4-5 Thematic Mapper (TM) Level-1 Data Products
  • Landsat 1-5 Multispectral Scanner (MSS) Level-1 Data Products
• Landsat Legacy
  • Global Land Survey (GLS)
  • Landsat Image Mosaic Of Antarctica (LIMA)
  • Landsat Multispectral Scanner (MSS) Film Only
  • Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) Film Only
  • Return Beam Vidicon (RBV) Film Only
  • Tri-Decadal Global Landsat Orthorectified Single Scenes
  • Tri-Decadal Global Landsat Orthorectified Mosaics

Land Change Monitoring, Assessment and Projection (LCMAP)

• Continuous Change Detection and Classification (CCDC) V1
• Continuous Change Detection and Classification (CCDC) V1.1

NASA Land Processing Distributed Active Archive Center (LPDAAC) Collections

• Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER)
• Community
• Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs)
• Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)
• Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS)
• ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS)

Radar

• IFSAR Orthorectified Radar Image (ORI) Alaska
• Spaceborne Imaging Radar C-band (SIR-C)
• Spaceborne Imaging Radar C-Band (SIR-C) Survey Images 

Sentinel-2

• Sentinel-2

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)

• Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) 
  • UAS Raw
  • UAS Ortho
  • UAS Point Cloud
  • UAS DEM

Vegetation Monitoring

• AVHRR Remote Sensing Phenology
• eMODIS (EROS Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) Land Surface Temperature (LST)
• eMODIS (EROS Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
• eMODIS Remote Sensing Phenology
• eVIIRS (EROS Visible Infrered Imaging Radiometer Suite) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
• NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
• Quick Drought Response Index (QuickDRI)
• Vegetation Drought Response Index (VegDRI)

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