Landsat 

The same as the Landsat satellite, only smaller—that’s a fair description of the field spectrometer used at the EROS test site for validating Landsat’s accuracy.

Invasive grasses are degrading sagebrush in western states. Can sheep help us restore these ecosystems?

Researchers and other satellite programs rely on the scientifically correct data from Landsat—every pixel and every spectral band that is measured.

The USGS Southwest Biological Science Center is coordinating the Southwest Fire Innovation Landscape Network to prepare fire and natural resource managers for rapidly changing fire landscapes by conducting research and building science-management partnerships. The network develops advanced tools and technologies to assess fuel loads and the effectiveness of fuel treatments, understand wildfire...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is helping to make the science work at EROS better and more efficient, as we continue to develop valuable data products.

Providing accuracy metrics for a land cover map takes some work. But there’s poetry and story involved, too.

For this episode, we go inside the Landsat operations room at EROS to see what happens during a live Landsat pass.

Posters covered a wide range of topics as local graduate students and EROS scientists shared their work in the EROS atrium.

Taking care of a satellite that’s 438 miles in space requires creative problem solving—we talk about those moments and memories of the nearly 25 years of land imaging from Landsat 7.

The next generation of USGS land cover mapping is here. Annual NLCD provides land cover data of the U.S. every year back to 1985.

LANDFIRE is a diverse product suite with countless uses that go beyond fire management. The program has now been providing this satellite data for 20 years.

A satellite system designed to image land is helping fill in data gaps of underwater topography near shorelines.