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Atmospheric Auxiliary Data Changes Affect Landsat 8-9 Level 2 Surface Reflectance Processing

Landsat Collection 2 Level 2 product processing requires auxiliary atmospheric characterization data from multiple external sources. Landsat 8 and...

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Using the Power of Landsat and Digital Earth Tools to Understand Coastlines in Australia and Africa

How leading-edge Landsat based Earth observation products and tools are helping us to understand Africa’s and Australia’s coastlines. This is the...

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New Paper Promotes the 50-year Landsat Collection 2 Archive

Recognizing the need for consistently processed remotely sensed data, the USGS initiated collections-based processing to ensure superior radiometric...

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EROS 50th History: Responding to Disasters

Landsat satellites captured vivid imagery of the massive fires blazing across Canada earlier this year: orange flames, ugly burn scars, thick smoke.

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Upcoming Webinar to Highlight Landsat

The USGS EROS User Experience Webinar series includes presentations about data products as well as useful tools and services that impact users of data...

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EROS 50th History: Landsat Unites USGS and NASA

Inspired by early images of the Earth from space, the Department of the Interior and the USGS had a bold idea in the 1960s to launch a satellite to...

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Landsat Ground Station Operators Working Group 51st Meeting Held in Norway

The USGS Landsat International Cooperator Network, in coordination with the Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) and the Norwegian Space Agency (NOSA)...

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USGS EROS Celebrates 50 Years of a Mission that Matters

Fifty years ago, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) brought people together to work in a new government facility surrounded by South Dakota farm fields...

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Upcoming Maintenance to Interrupt Data Access

On Wednesday, August 16, 2023, access to Landsat and other data stored in the USGS EROS archive will be unavailable from
6:00 am to 6:00 pm CDT for...

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EROS 50th History: University Collaborations

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

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