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Event Celebrates a Satellite’s New Phase and Landsat’s Legacy

Event Celebrates a Satellite’s New Phase and Landsat’s Legacy

On a pleasant, breezy summer day, a crowd gathered under a white event tent on the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center’s lawn...

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David Applegate Sworn In as Director of the U.S. Geological Survey

David Applegate Sworn In as Director of the U.S. Geological Survey

This release was originally shared by the Department of the Interior. 

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Now Available: USGS makes it easier to create hydrography features from 3D elevation data

Now Available: USGS makes it easier to create hydrography features from 3D elevation data

Users of the USGS National Hydrography Dataset will now be able to more easily create hydrography information from elevation data from 3D Elevation...

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Landsat 9: USGS assumes control of newest satellite in Landsat program from NASA

Landsat 9: USGS assumes control of newest satellite in Landsat program from NASA

Sioux Falls, S.D. — The U.S. Geological Survey assumed complete operational control of the Landsat 9 satellite from NASA today at the USGS Earth...

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Media Advisory: Public and media invited to attend a live, virtual lecture on how to access over 100,000 geologic maps covering the U.S.

Media Advisory: Public and media invited to attend a live, virtual lecture on how to access over 100,000 geologic maps covering the U.S.

Please join the U.S. Geological Survey for its August installment of the USGS Public Lecture Series.   

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Fifty Years of Landsat: Watchman for Wildfires

Fifty Years of Landsat: Watchman for Wildfires

Earth imagery is fundamental to the USGS fire mission to understand the causes, consequences, and benefits of wildfire. Imagery and data from Landsat...

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Special Issue: Landsat Update 50th Anniversary

Special Issue: Landsat Update 50th Anniversary

Landsat Updates are prepared periodically and distributed electronically to provide information about Landsat activities and related topics of...

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Landsat: Helping Us Help Ourselves for 50 Years

Landsat: Helping Us Help Ourselves for 50 Years

We can’t see them, but they’ve faithfully circled above us for 50 years. From hundreds of miles away, Landsat satellites have revealed details and...

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NEW TNMCorps Mapping Challenge for Fire Stations in Georgia and South Carolina!

NEW TNMCorps Mapping Challenge for Fire Stations in Georgia and South Carolina!

We're moving back down south to Georgia and South Carolina for a fire stations challenge! This challenge mostly contains points which need to be peer...

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Maps and Imagery for Hurricane Response

Maps and Imagery for Hurricane Response

The 2022 Atlantic Hurricane Season runs from June 1 through November 30. Throughout the season, the U.S. Geological Survey will be providing science...

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