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On December 12, 2024, heavy lake effect snow blanketed the Buffalo, New York metro area with over 2 feet accumulating in less than 24 hours. This area normally receives heavy snowfall each year during the Northern Hemisphere winter months due to being situated along the shore of Lake Erie. 

The Wind River Range, located in west-central Wyoming, is a unique wilderness area that rises from the high plains of the South Pass of the Continental Divide and runs northwest to the Yellowstone Plateau. The Winds, as they are affectionately known, are exceptionally long, wide, high, rugged, and remote.

Landsat 8 image of Lake Thompson in South Dakota, showing a November algal bloom.

Image date: November 22, 2024
Path 30, Row 29
Band combinations: 654 (false color) to show the algal bloom, and then blended with 432 (natural color) to show the snow.

Photo of Pecora 2024 Team Award winners with representatives from USGS and NASA.

This Landsat 9 image shows the Washington D.C. area on August 1, 2024. The image was created using Bands 6,5,4 and was then sharpened using the panchromatic band (Band 8) which has a higher resolution than the other bands (15 meters compared to 30 meters).

Path 15 Row 33

Landsat 8 image of the Massachusetts Coast, showing Boston, Plymouth, and Cape Cod.

Published on social media on November 28, 2024, for Thanksgiving.

Mosaic of two different Landsat 8 images:
Image dates: November 8 and 17, 2024
Path 11, Row 31 and Path 12, Row 31 

Topobathymetric digital elevation model of the Santiam River in the Willamette Valley southeast of Salem, Oregon.

Topobathymetric digital elevation model of the Santiam River in the Willamette Valley southeast of Salem, Oregon.

USGS geographer and remote pilot Mark Bauer sets up a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) base station, which will be used to correct uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) lidar data during post-processing. It's early during the field day and a layer of frost covers the ground.

Topobathymetric digital elevation model of the Santiam River in the Willamette Valley southeast of Salem, Oregon.

Topobathymetric digital elevation model of the Santiam River in the Willamette Valley southeast of Salem, Oregon. The trees and dry land are shown as a lidar point cloud colored based on aerial imagery.

Landsat 8 image of South Sudan, showing portions of the states of Unity, Jonglei, and Warrup. 

Image date: October 22, 2024
Path 174, Row 54
Band combination: 654

Landsat 8 image of the Henry Mountains in southeastern Utah. 

Published on social media on November 7, 2024.

Mosaic of two different Landsat 8 images:
Image date: June 16, 2024
Path 37, Row 33 and Path 37, Row 34

The attendees of the Landsat Ground Station Operators Working Group (LGSOWG) #52 meeting in Canberra, Australia in November 2024. 

Visit this USGS webpage to learn more about LGSOWG #52. 

Landsat 9 image of the China-Mongolia border, showing parts of the autonomous region of Xinjiang, China, and Khovd Province, Mongolia.

Image date: October 23, 2024
Path 141, Row 28

LANDFIRE partner logos: Department of the Interior (DOI), Department of Agriculture (USDA), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), U.S. Forest Service (USFS), and The Nature Conservancy

Pyramid Lake is one of the largest natural lakes in the state of Nevada, covering an area of about 188 square miles (487 square kilometers). Located entirely within the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe Reservation on the western margin of the Great Basin Desert, this deep terminal lake is widely regarded as a world class fishery.

Topobathymetric digital elevation model of the Santiam River in the Willamette Valley southeast of Salem, Oregon.

This map of the United States and its territories shows geographic extent of the first-ever nationally consistent hydrography data acquired from high-resolution 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) data. FY24 projects are the result of ongoing Federal coordination via the 3DHP Working Group and the Alaska Mapping Initiative.

This map of Alaska shows geographic extent of the first-ever nationally consistent hydrography data acquired from high-resolution 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) data. FY24 projects are the result of ongoing Federal coordination via the 3DHP Working Group and the Alaska Mapping Initiative.

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Aerial photo of attendees at the 6th Federal Uncrewed Systems (UxS) Workshop taken from a Skydio drone in front of the Science and Technology building at the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico.