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Wyoming is home to the country’s first official national park–Yellowstone, the country’s first national forest–Shoshone, and the country’s first national monument–Devil’s Tower.

Capital Cheyenne

Image Source Landsat 8

Population 576,851

Graphic copy of a USGS-generated Brazos River inundation map. 

This is a geiger mode lidar image colored by elevation over Cook County, Illinois

Lidar point cloud image of USGS headquarters building in Reston, VA, shaded by RGB values from orthophotos

Lidar point cloud image of USGS headquarters building in Reston, VA, shaded by elevation

Earth MRI - Western Alaska Range

Dark Hollow Falls - Shenandoah National Park, VA

Figure 3: Zooming in and rotating scene in 3D from figure 2. Points coloer by laser intensity (blue = low intensity, red = high intensity).

Figure 2: Zooming in to red rectangle A from figure 1. Points colored by laser intensity (blue = low intensity, red = high intensity).

Map of Alaska showing probability (%) of change occurrence. Insets show fire boundaries from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Large Fire Database and Landsat 8 imagery (bottom right; 2016) north of Fairbanks, Alaska.

Modern paleontology began with the 1858 discovery by William Parker Foulke at Haddonfield, New Jersey of the nearly complete skeleton of a dinosaur called Hadrosaurus.

Capital Trenton

Image Source Landsat 8

Population 9,288,994

Did you know that nearly 50 percent of the United States population lives within a 500-mile radius of Columbus, Ohio? Columbus is the state capital and Ohio’s largest city. It is also home to The Ohio State University.

Capital Columbus

Image Source Landsat 8

This diagram depicts the Quaternary Stratigraphy of Cass County, Minnesota shown in six different cross sections located throughout Cass County, MN as indicated in the bottom right indicator map. These cross sections are representative of the materials to be encountered between the land surface and bedrock. 

Six flags have flown over Texas: Spain, France, United Mexican States, Confederate States of America, the Republic of Texas, and the United States of America, with eight changes of government.

Capital Austin

Image Source Landsat 8

Population 29,145,505

(A) The Creek Fire perimeter within the San Carlos Apache Reservation in east-central Arizona and (B) the various fuel treatments within the Creek Fire boundary, using the boundary in Wu et al.

LANDFIRE Existing Vegetation Type imagery.

This image shows a lidar flight done in July 2018 of the Kīlauea volcano after the collapse of the caldera 

Roof deck

Roof deck

Survey Analysis via Visual Exploration rock cores

Kevin T. Gallagher, USGS Associate Director, Core Science Systems, addresses

 Members of the MAPPS Executive Summit on US lidar coverage