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Study of California Blue Oak Decline During Drought Draws Interest

Study of California Blue Oak Decline During Drought Draws Interest

A study published June 29, 2021 in the journal Frontiers in Climate, titled “Hotter Drought Escalates Tree Cover Declines in Blue Oak Woodlands of...

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Get Crafty with Landsat!

Get Crafty with Landsat!

NASA Invites You to Create Landsat-Inspired Arts and Crafts
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ESPA now includes Collection 2 Spectral Indices and Services

ESPA now includes Collection 2 Spectral Indices and Services

A new software release to the EROS Science Processing Architecture (ESPA) On Demand Interface includes Landsat Collection 2 spectral indices and...

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New Data Access Tool Offers Faster, More User-Friendly Landsat Experience

New Data Access Tool Offers Faster, More User-Friendly Landsat Experience

LandsatLook 2.0 Viewer Optimized for Users of Commercial Cloud

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Landsat Update June 2021

Landsat Update June 2021

Landsat Updates are prepared periodically and distributed electronically to provide information about Landsat activities and related topics of...

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Land Use Models from EROS Offer Insight, Management Guidance for Delaware River Basin

Land Use Models from EROS Offer Insight, Management Guidance for Delaware River Basin

In the mid-1960s, the city of Philadelphia faced a potential public health crisis.

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Landsat Collection 1 Forward Processing to Cease at the End of 2021

Landsat Collection 1 Forward Processing to Cease at the End of 2021

Looking at Past, Future Spread of Invasive Plants Like Cheatgrass

Looking at Past, Future Spread of Invasive Plants Like Cheatgrass

A new publication about exotic annual grasses not only documents their abundance across the western United States, but peers into the past to assess...

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LANDFIRE Releases Disturbance Data for 2017-19 with LF 2019 Limited

LANDFIRE Releases Disturbance Data for 2017-19 with LF 2019 Limited

A year ago, the Landscape Fire and Resource Planning Management Tools (LANDFIRE) Program released its 2016 Remap for the conterminous United States...

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USGS EROS Maps Highlight Growth in U.S. Irrigated Lands

USGS EROS Maps Highlight Growth in U.S. Irrigated Lands

There was 7 % more irrigated land in the U.S. in 2017 than there was in 2002. The biggest gainers were the Missouri, and Upper and Lower Mississippi...

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USGS EROS Supports Wildfire Science through Updates, Upgrades to Landscape Mapping

USGS EROS Supports Wildfire Science through Updates, Upgrades to Landscape Mapping

With the height of the 2021 wildfire season on the horizon, the U.S. Geological Survey is working to provide the research and data needed to plan for...

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Keeping an Eye on Vulnerable Coastal Wetlands

Keeping an Eye on Vulnerable Coastal Wetlands

Coastlines can have it pretty rough. Even a beach isn’t always sunshine. Wind and water constantly wear at its edges—and then there are the storms.

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