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For 50 years, the people of EROS have overcome difficulties and celebrated triumphs together, always centered on providing a perspective of the Earth that helps us better understand its condition. This video, timed with the 50th anniversary celebration at EROS in August of 2023, explores the center's history.

In July 2023, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Uncrewed Systems Office (NUSO) and the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center conducted a joint field campaign in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Landsat satellites move in a polar orbit from north to south at over 27,000 kilometers per hour. For the ten meter antenna at EROS, a typical flyover, also known as a pass, lasts 14 minutes from horizon to horizon.

In August 2023, the USGS National Uncrewed Systems Office (NUSO) participated in a collaborative field campaign to collect remote sensing data over agricultural crop fields in California's Central Valley.

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Recording of the Florida Bonneted Bat Data Submission Workshop: Part 1 - Introduction

Introduction contains background information on NABat and Florida Bonneted Bat surveys.

Spreaker: Roxanne Pourshoushtari (USGS)

Presentation contributors and moderators: Laura D’Acunto (USGS) and Sandra Sneckenberger (FWS)

Recording of the Florida Bonneted Bat Data Submission Workshop (Part - 3 External Roost Surveys)

Speaker: Roxanne Pourshoushtari (USGS)

Presentation contributors and moderators: Laura D’Acunto (USGS) and Sandra Sneckenberger (FWS)

Smoke filled the skies over western Canada and even much of the United States in May 2023. The source was several wildfires in Alberta and British Columbia.

Near the end of May, rain and cooler temperatures finally brought some relief for the out-of-control fires.

Our material is taken from the "USGS National Hydrography Datasets – What’s Happening Now?" session previously held at the recent American Water Resources Association (AWRA) Geospatial Water Technology Conference earlier in May. We will cover: 

A winter of heavy rain causes flooding in California's Tulare Basin, threatening cropland. The basin was once the site of a large lake that appeared naturally every winter as rainfall and snowmelt from the nearby Sierra Nevada mountain range flowed down and filled the basin. It was even known as the largest lake west of the Mississippi River.

Topic is “The NHD to 3DHP – midyear update” 

Agenda: 

• 00:00 – Start 
• 1:57 - The NHD to 3DHP – midyear update (section1 - Steve Aichele) 
• 28:13 - The NHD to 3DHP – midyear update (section2 – Sue Buto) 
• 43:05 - Closing remarks 

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This video covers the Bulk Download Web Application or BDWA, which allows you to download large quantities of satellite imagery and geospatial data. The BDWA is web based and compatible with Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. No additional downloads are required to use the BDWA.

An iceberg the size of Houston broke from the Brunt Ice Shelf Antarctica on January 22nd, 2023. Landsat images show the area one day before the break and several days after. A feature named Chasm One had been lengthening for years, and it finally reached all the way across the shelf.

The HydroAdd tool is a web application built by USGS that allows collaborative addressing (or linear referencing) of diverse datasets to the NHD. HydroAdd also provides tools that allow users to migrate datasets that have been previously addressed to the NHD.

Cheyenne Bottoms is the largest inland wetland in the United States. Water normally diverts from rivers into the vast marshland. The wetland water level changes with precipitation and surface flows. For example, 2007 was a wet year. And 2013 was a dry year.

USGS researchers teamed up for a biological soil crust (biocrust) remote sensing and field data campaign near Moab, Utah in February of 2022.

HY_Features is the international standard conceptual data model for surface hydrologic features which will be used as the basis for the 3DHP data model – the planned successor to the NHD.

We wouldn't have seasons here on Earth if not for the planet's 23.5 degree axial tilt. Axial tilt is also known as obliquity. Earth's obliquity and its relationship with the sun give us two solstice points and two equinox points. As we orbit through each solstice and equinox, the amount and angle of daylight change.

While the best soccer players in the world show off their footwork skills, the best Earth observation satellite program in the world displays its skill at detecting change over time. Landsat images show the rapidly growing city of Doha in Qatar. It's the country's capital and the location of the 2022 men's World Cup.

Two decades of drought are contributing to low water levels in reservoirs along the Colorado River, including Lake Powell.

Lake Powell’s highest recorded water level was in 1983. In this 1984 Landsat 5 image, the lake’s elevation was 3,702 feet above sea level.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has developed a vision for the 3D National Topography Model (3DNTM), which will integrate USGS elevation and hydrography datasets to model the Nation's topography in 3D.