USGS EROS Archive - Products Overview
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By Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center
July 19, 2018
National Aerial Photography Program (NAPP)
Color Infrared - Little Rock, Arkansas - March 24, 2001
Color Infrared - Little Rock, Arkansas - March 24, 2001
Landsat 9 OLI/TIRS
Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier, Greenland, Jul 29, 2022
Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier, Greenland, Jul 29, 2022
Declassified Data - Declass 1
Michael Army Airfield - Dugway Proving Ground in Utah - December 13, 1969
Michael Army Airfield - Dugway Proving Ground in Utah - December 13, 1969
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)
Sutterfield Hollow, MO - West Fork Mine - March 31, 2016
Sutterfield Hollow, MO - West Fork Mine - March 31, 2016
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
Resourcesat 2 - Linear Imaging Self Scanning (LISS-3) sensor - Southern Great Salt Lake in Utah - November 7, 2016
Resourcesat 2 - Linear Imaging Self Scanning (LISS-3) sensor - Southern Great Salt Lake in Utah - November 7, 2016
Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper
Mount St. Helens, Washington - October 18, 2011
Mount St. Helens, Washington - October 18, 2011
Explore the world’s largest civilian collection of images of the Earth’s surface. Find satellite images and data, aerial photography, elevation and land cover datasets, digitized maps, and our Image Gallery collections.
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
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)
Digital Line Graphs (DLGs)
Digital Maps
Earth Observing One (EO-1)
Global Fiducials
Heat Capacity Mapping Mission (HCMM)
ISERV
ISRO Resourcesat
Land Cover Products
- Annual Annual National Land Cover Database (NLCD) Collection 1
- Annual NLCD Collection 1 Land Cover Product
- Annual NLCD Collection 1 Land Cover Change Product
- Annual NLCD Collection 1 Land Cover Confidence Product
- Annual NLCD Collection 1 Fractional Impervious Surface Product
- Annual NLCD Collection 1 Impervious Descriptor Product
- Annual NLCD Collection 1 Spectral Change Day of Year Product
- Global Land Cover Characterization (GLCC)
- Land Cover Trends Geotagged Photography
Landsat
- Landsat Collection 2 Level-3
- Landsat Collection 2 Level-2
- 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 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 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 Digital Elevation Model (DEM)
- Landsat Legacy
Land Change Monitoring, Assessment and Projection (LCMAP)
- Continuous Change Detection and Classification (CCDC) CONUS V1
- Continuous Change Detection and Classification (CCDC) CONUS V1.1
- Continuous Change Detection and Classification (CCDC) CONUS V1.2
- Continuous Change Detection and Classification (CCDC) CONUS V1.3
- Continuous Change Detection and Classification (CCDC) Hawaii V1.0
NASA Land Processing Distributed Active Archive Center (LPDAAC) Collections
Important Notice: All NASA LP DAAC data products will be removed from EarthExplorer and M2M on August 30, 2024. Users are encouraged to visit the LP DAAC website to familiarize themselves with alternative search and download options. A list of available tools for each dataset are included under the “Access Data” button on each dataset’s DOI landing page, these landing pages can be found using the Search Data Catalog. Please see the following news announcement to learn more: https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/news/removal-of-nasa-lp-daac-products-from-usgs-earthexplorer-and-machine-to-machine-api-on-august-30-2024/ Please email lpdaac@usgs.gov with any questions.
Radar
- IFSAR Orthorectified Radar Image (ORI) Alaska
- Spaceborne Imaging Radar C-band (SIR-C)
- Spaceborne Imaging Radar C-Band (SIR-C) Survey Images
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)
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) Land Surface Temperature (LST)
- eVIIRS (EROS Visible Infrered Imaging Radiometer Suite) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
- eVIIRS (EROS Visible Infrered Imaging Radiometer Suite) Global Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
- eVIIRS (EROS Visible Infrered Imaging Radiometer Suite) Global Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI)
- eVIIRS Remote Sensing Phenology
- NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
- Quick Drought Response Index (QuickDRI)
- Vegetation Drought Response Index (VegDRI)
Below are data or web applications associated with these products.
EarthExplorer
The EarthExplorer (EE) user interface is an online search, discovery, and ordering tool developed by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). EE supports the searching of satellite, aircraft, and other remote sensing inventories through interactive and textual-based query capabilities.
By
Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center , Commercial Remote Sensing Space Policy, Landsat Missions, Coastal National Elevation Database (CoNED) Applications Project, Elevation Derivatives for National Applications (EDNA), Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection, Significant Topographic Changes in the United States
LandsatLook
Landsatlook visualization client enables users rapid online viewing and create dynamic custom mosaics from scenes within the Landsat archive for an area of interest. Allows users to customize their mosaic using three band combinations, select spectral indices and quality assessment band filtering.
Fire Danger Viewer, Map and Data Products
The Map and Data Products page offers bulk download of the Fire Danger Forecast data suite.
LANDFIRE Map Viewer
Map interface to view and download LANDFIRE data sets, receive alerts and notifications.
GloVis
The USGS Global Visualization Viewer (GloVis) is an online search and order tool for selected remote sensing data.
Explore the world’s largest civilian collection of images of the Earth’s surface. Find satellite images and data, aerial photography, elevation and land cover datasets, digitized maps, and our Image Gallery collections.
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
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)
Digital Line Graphs (DLGs)
Digital Maps
Earth Observing One (EO-1)
Global Fiducials
Heat Capacity Mapping Mission (HCMM)
ISERV
ISRO Resourcesat
Land Cover Products
- Annual Annual National Land Cover Database (NLCD) Collection 1
- Annual NLCD Collection 1 Land Cover Product
- Annual NLCD Collection 1 Land Cover Change Product
- Annual NLCD Collection 1 Land Cover Confidence Product
- Annual NLCD Collection 1 Fractional Impervious Surface Product
- Annual NLCD Collection 1 Impervious Descriptor Product
- Annual NLCD Collection 1 Spectral Change Day of Year Product
- Global Land Cover Characterization (GLCC)
- Land Cover Trends Geotagged Photography
Landsat
- Landsat Collection 2 Level-3
- Landsat Collection 2 Level-2
- 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 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 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 Digital Elevation Model (DEM)
- Landsat Legacy
Land Change Monitoring, Assessment and Projection (LCMAP)
- Continuous Change Detection and Classification (CCDC) CONUS V1
- Continuous Change Detection and Classification (CCDC) CONUS V1.1
- Continuous Change Detection and Classification (CCDC) CONUS V1.2
- Continuous Change Detection and Classification (CCDC) CONUS V1.3
- Continuous Change Detection and Classification (CCDC) Hawaii V1.0
NASA Land Processing Distributed Active Archive Center (LPDAAC) Collections
Important Notice: All NASA LP DAAC data products will be removed from EarthExplorer and M2M on August 30, 2024. Users are encouraged to visit the LP DAAC website to familiarize themselves with alternative search and download options. A list of available tools for each dataset are included under the “Access Data” button on each dataset’s DOI landing page, these landing pages can be found using the Search Data Catalog. Please see the following news announcement to learn more: https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/news/removal-of-nasa-lp-daac-products-from-usgs-earthexplorer-and-machine-to-machine-api-on-august-30-2024/ Please email lpdaac@usgs.gov with any questions.
Radar
- IFSAR Orthorectified Radar Image (ORI) Alaska
- Spaceborne Imaging Radar C-band (SIR-C)
- Spaceborne Imaging Radar C-Band (SIR-C) Survey Images
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)
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) Land Surface Temperature (LST)
- eVIIRS (EROS Visible Infrered Imaging Radiometer Suite) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
- eVIIRS (EROS Visible Infrered Imaging Radiometer Suite) Global Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
- eVIIRS (EROS Visible Infrered Imaging Radiometer Suite) Global Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI)
- eVIIRS Remote Sensing Phenology
- NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
- Quick Drought Response Index (QuickDRI)
- Vegetation Drought Response Index (VegDRI)
Below are data or web applications associated with these products.
EarthExplorer
The EarthExplorer (EE) user interface is an online search, discovery, and ordering tool developed by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). EE supports the searching of satellite, aircraft, and other remote sensing inventories through interactive and textual-based query capabilities.
By
Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center , Commercial Remote Sensing Space Policy, Landsat Missions, Coastal National Elevation Database (CoNED) Applications Project, Elevation Derivatives for National Applications (EDNA), Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection, Significant Topographic Changes in the United States
LandsatLook
Landsatlook visualization client enables users rapid online viewing and create dynamic custom mosaics from scenes within the Landsat archive for an area of interest. Allows users to customize their mosaic using three band combinations, select spectral indices and quality assessment band filtering.
Fire Danger Viewer, Map and Data Products
The Map and Data Products page offers bulk download of the Fire Danger Forecast data suite.
LANDFIRE Map Viewer
Map interface to view and download LANDFIRE data sets, receive alerts and notifications.
GloVis
The USGS Global Visualization Viewer (GloVis) is an online search and order tool for selected remote sensing data.