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Remote Presentations No Problem for Successful Landsat 9 Mission Operations Review

Remote Presentations No Problem for Successful Landsat 9 Mission Operations Review

USGS and NASA officials made remote presentations instead of traveling to the Goddard Space Flight Center March 31-April 1 to conduct a vital Mission...

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EROS’ Dwomoh Has Played Vital Role in Monitoring, Protecting Ghana’s Forests

EROS’ Dwomoh Has Played Vital Role in Monitoring, Protecting Ghana’s Forests

They say in Ghana that spirits inhabit the forests. That some groves are so sacred that only chiefs and kings can be buried there. That the culture...

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How ‘Synthetic’ Landsat Can Help Produce Better Maps

How ‘Synthetic’ Landsat Can Help Produce Better Maps

On a cool March morning in 2019, LANDFIRE program leaders were sitting in a conference room at the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS)...

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Mapping Near-Surface Permafrost: EROS Work Important for Studying Arctic

Mapping Near-Surface Permafrost: EROS Work Important for Studying Arctic

Imagine, Neal Pastick says, if the infrastructure under your house disappeared. If the concrete forms or block basement walls disintegrated over time...

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LCMAP Promises New Insight on Land Surface Change

LCMAP Promises New Insight on Land Surface Change

Landsat satellite imagery has been a boon to the study of the Earth’s surface for nearly five decades, but researchers at the USGS Earth Resources...

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Landsat Science Team Briefed on Landsat 9 Development, Landsat 7 End of Life, and More

Landsat Science Team Briefed on Landsat 9 Development, Landsat 7 End of Life, and More

Landsat Science Team (LST) members meeting in early February in Phoenix, AZ, were briefed or provided input on a number of important issues involving...

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Landsat Data Moving to Public Cloud in Early 2020

Landsat Data Moving to Public Cloud in Early 2020

The USGS is placing a copy of its consolidated Landsat global data inventory into a commercial cloud in early 2020.

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A Landsat Milestone: One Hundred Million Downloads

A Landsat Milestone: One Hundred Million Downloads

When the world began downloading the first freely available Landsat images on Oct. 1, 2008, a lot of people wondered just how much imagery would fly...

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Users Realize Significant Economic, Societal Benefits of Landsat

Users Realize Significant Economic, Societal Benefits of Landsat

What’s the value of data acquired from Landsat sensors when it comes to tracking toxic algal blooms in freshwater lakes? In monitoring vital habitat...

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New USGS EROS Maps to Offer Aid in Understanding, Management of Invasive Grasses

New USGS EROS Maps to Offer Aid in Understanding, Management of Invasive Grasses

The conception of an invasive species in popular culture is generally tied to living things more mobile than cheatgrass – think zebra mussels in the...

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EROS contributes to New Land Cover Maps for U.S., Canada, Mexico

EROS contributes to New Land Cover Maps for U.S., Canada, Mexico

The three largest countries in North America share trade, climate and culture in a host of broad and specific ways. A new set of land cover maps for...

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EROS Upgrades Fire Danger Forecast Mapping Tools

EROS Upgrades Fire Danger Forecast Mapping Tools

Tracking large fire potential in the past, present, and future through remotely sensed data just got a lot simpler.

The Fire Danger Forecast project...

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