Images

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

Earth MRI - Western Alaska Range

Dark Hollow Falls - Shenandoah National Park, VA

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

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

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

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.

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.

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. 

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

The natural oil seep in this photo is located in Pescadero Creek County Park, where the Canyon Trail crosses Tarwater Creek. The oil is black, has a taffy-like consistency, and smells like motor oil.

A 3D Elevation Program lidar point cloud colored by RGB color from imagery from the National Agriculture Imagery Program and showing simulated flooding (in blue) of an area in Denver, Colorado.

The Half Moon Bay oil field is one of the oldest oil fields in California and was first developed during the 1880s. Since then, the field has produced an estimated 60,000 barrels of oil from about 19 wells.

South Dakota is home to the fabled “Black Hills.” Seen from a distance, these pine-covered hills, rising several thousand feet above the surrounding prairie, appear black.

Capital Pierre

Image Source Landsat 8

Population 886,667