Images

Graphical illustration of lidar pulse versus a lidar return

Example of the Landsat 7 ETM+ Collection 2 level-1 product. This Landsat 7 image was acquired on January 1, 2003 near Ciudad Obregón, Mexico and is shown as a natural color composite using the red, green, and blue bands (bands 3,2,1).

New York’s Adirondack Park is the largest publicly-protected area in the conterminous United States, greater in size than Yellowstone, Everglades, Glacier, and Grand Canyon National Parks combined.

Capital Albany

Image Source Landsat 8

Population 20,201,249

View southward from Fortress Mountain Formation on Atigun syncline towards Brooks Range.  Trans-Alaska Pipeline, haul road, and Galbraith Lake in valley.  Location in Brooks Range foothills, about 90 miles southeast of Umiat.

This labeled Landsat 7 image from June 19, 2001, shows the path of damage caused by a June 18, 2001, tornado that passed near Siren, Wisconsin.

NASA launched the Terra satellite in the Earth Observing System series containing MODIS and ASTER instruments in 1999. Data from the instruments is stored at and distributed from the LP DAAC, and EROS scientists use the data in a variety of projects.

During invasions of the ice sheets (about 10,000 to 1,800,000 years ago), the glacial landscape of the Central Great Lakes region was a foreboding and barren place. In this scene, melting along the front edge of the continental ice sheet feeds water and sediment into a river and glacial lake.

Each advance and retreat of the ice sheet left behind a landscape composed of patches of clay, silt, sand, gravel and till, commonly capped by soil. This block diagram provides an artistic depiction of a modern landscape on glacial deposits. 

The south area of the La Honda oil field, California, was discovered during the late 1950s and produced an estimated 595,000 barrels of oil from about 12 wells, including the well in this photo.

Landsat 7 captured this image of Upolu Island in Samoa in July of 1999.  The coral reefs around Upolu and surrounding islands have been studied for longevity. Coral reefs around the island are virtually continuous, forming an extensive shallow reef flat.   Landsat 7 July 6, 1999. 

This pan sharpened color infrared image of Sioux Falls, South Dakota is from the first scene acquired by Landsat 7's Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) sensor on April 18, 1999. The image is shown using the near infrared, red, and green bands (Bands 4,3,2).

This is a screenshot of 1992 Land Remote Sensing Policy Act Congressional Record. The full document is available below. 

The first National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD), based on Landsat 5 data, is completed and available for distribution in 2000.

Sometimes described as resembling a stingray or a tadpole, the Batagaika Crater is a widening chasm in Siberia and the world’s largest permafrost crater.

This Landsat satellite image was created during a group effort to promote remote sensing science in 1985.

Screenshot of the 1985 Public Law 98-365 The Land Remote Sensing Commercialization Act Memo

EROS Employee Aaron Neugebauer holding fish from the EROS pond. 

Landsat 4's first light image captured eastern Lake Erie, and the cities of Toledo, Detroit, and Windsor on July 25, 1982. Although the Landsat program had been collecting images of the Earth since 1972, this was the first time that the data could be depicted as a natural color image due to the new Thematic Mapper sensor onboard Landsat 4.

USGS EROS provides remote sensing science training for visitors in 1979. This is a man using a stereoscope to look at satellite images.

USGS provides remote sensing science training for visitors. This is a field trip to Badlands National Park.

USGS provides remote sensing science training for visitors. This image shows visitors seeing Mount Rushmore.