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Millions of people in the United States and billions around the world live unaware that employees of a far-off USGS facility surrounded by South...

At an average 64 gigabytes, the smartphone in your pocket or purse has 1 million times more storage than the first computer used by the USGS Earth...

Dr. Pete Doucette came to the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center in 2019 from the USGS in Reston, Virginia, to lead the...

We become intimately familiar with the land where we live, work and play. The backyard maple where three baby robins left their nest on the fourth...

The USGS has again deployed its decades of experience in land cover mapping with the release of the latest version of the National Land Cover Database...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in association with the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium, is pleased to announce the...

A small fleet of drones recently buzzed through the sky over the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center.

The EROS Cal/Val Center...

From their lofty orbit hundreds of miles above, Landsat satellites leave little imprint on the Earth they continuously monitor—although their data...

From early on, the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center forged relationships and connections with universities that ultimately...