Land Imaging User Needs and Resources
User Needs | Capabilities | Analysis
Requirements Capabilities & Analysis for Earth Observations
The USGS National Land Imaging Program evaluates satellite capabilities to determine effective solutions for addressing civil agency and societal challenges, allowing land managers and policymakers to make informed decisions about natural resources and the environment. A user-centered, solution-driven approach creates a robust suite of innovative earth observation technology, data, and services.
Tell Us About Your Needs
Work with us to document your land imaging needs using our standardized data collection process. Once captured, your needs will be available to us and will be considered in all of our activities.
Search Satellite Capabilities
We compile detailed information about U.S., international, and commercial land imaging satellite systems, and provide access to a variety of land imaging data and data products.
How We Inform Decisions
We provide quantitative and qualitative assessments to support investment decisions that will meet the most needs for the most users. Explore how this information is being used to inform decisions.
Meetings and Workshops
Joint Agency Commercial Imagery Evaluation (JACIE) 2024 — March 11-14, 2024
Annual JACIE Workshops are sponsored by government agencies and allow remote sensing experts to discuss system capabilities, calibration, and the impacts of data quality on various applications. The 2024 workshop will be held on March 11-14, 2024 at the USGS Headquarters in Reston, Virginia.
Visit the JACIE 2024 Workshop webpage to learn more about JACIE 2024.
Imagery Quality Assessment
We assess the quality of commercial high-resolution satellite imagery and provide the results in a series of system characterization reports.
Explore Landsat Science Products
Landsat science products provide analysis ready data, including surface reflectance, surface temperature, aquatic reflectance, dynamic surface water extent, fractional snow covered area, burned area, and provisional actual evapotranspiration.
Look for Data
Landsat and other land imaging products are available from multiple data portals, including EarthExplorer, commercial cloud access, and the EROS Science Processing Architecture On Demand Interface (ESPA), which supports higher-level data processing requests.
News
2024 William T. Pecora Award Nominations Now Being Accepted
GOES-16 ABI Added to Land Product Characterization System
New ECCOE Tool Helps Compare Satellite Data and Products
Publications
2022 Joint Agency Commercial Imagery Evaluation—Remote sensing satellite compendium
The Joint Agency Commercial Imagery Evaluation (JACIE) is a collaboration between six Federal agencies that are major users and producers of satellite land remote sensing data. In recent years, the JACIE group has observed ever-increasing numbers of remote sensing satellites being launched. This rapidly growing wave of new systems creates a need for a single reference for land remote sensing satel
2020 Joint Agency Commercial Imagery Evaluation—Remote sensing satellite compendium
The Joint Agency Commercial Imagery Evaluation (JACIE) is a collaboration between five Federal agencies that are major users and producers of satellite land remote sensing data. In recent years, the JACIE group has observed ever-increasing numbers of remote sensing satellites being launched. This rapidly growing wave of new systems creates a need for a single reference for land remote sensing sate