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With existing USGS tools you can search for scenes, view thumbnail browse images of scenes, and download scene-based data, all derived from the USGS archive of scene-based products. Now that Landsat scene data has been unpacked and stored in the cloud, LandsatLook 2.0 can access that data and present it to users in ways that were not previously possible. Thanks to the

A mudslide near the 2020 Dolan Fire's ignition point chopped through a chunk of California's scenic State Highway 1 in late January. 

The Dolan Fire began near Big Sur on August 18th, 2020. It scarred nearly 125,000 acres before being fully contained in December. 

The damage is clear in false color Landsat 8 imagery from August and October. The scar is still

The lava lake remains active in Halema‘uma‘u Crater, at the summit of Kīlauea. This video shows the inlet where lava from the western fissure is supplied to the lake. The motion of the lava stream is sluggish, and this video is shown at 20x speed.
 

Title: A Jaguar's Field of Dreams - If you build it, they will come (& other lessons from the U.S. - Mexico border) By: Laura M. Norman USGS, Western Geographic Science Center * Case study: the very lonely Jaguar * Madrean Archipelago Ecoregion, a biodiversity hotspot of the planet * Restoration ecohydrology and rewilding * Learn about the ecosystem services of rock

Throughout most of human existence, we haven't known much about how volcanoes work. Because of their immense power, they have terrified and fascinated us, and remain places of great spiritual importance for many people. The lack of knowledge about volcanoes has sometimes resulted in tragic and deadly disasters. But with the emergence of the science of volcanology and as

Translate a Digital Map With GeMS, Part C2 - How to translate point features and non-spatial information from another schema to GeMS

The Geologic Map Schema (GeMS) defines a standard database schema — a database design — for digital publication of geologic maps. This tutorial is one of six originally

Translate a Digital Map With GeMS, Part C1 - How to load map unit polygons, lines, and cross section data from another schema to GeMS.

The Geologic Map Schema (GeMS) defines a standard database schema — a database design — for digital publication of geologic maps. This tutorial is one of six originally

Digitize an Analog Map With GeMS, Part B3 - How to complete nonspatial tables, validate a GeMS database, and symbolize features.

The Geologic Map Schema (GeMS) defines a standard database schema — a database design — for digital publication of geologic maps. This tutorial is one of six originally presented as

Digitize an Analog Map With GeMS, Part B2 - Digitize orientation points and check topology.

The Geologic Map Schema (GeMS) defines a standard database schema — a database design — for digital publication of geologic maps. This tutorial is one of six originally presented as part of a short course at the 2021

Digitize an Analog Map With GeMS, Part B1 - How to create an empty GeMS geodatabase in ArcMap, digitize contacts from a scanned geologic map, and create map unit polygons.

The Geologic Map Schema (GeMS) defines a standard database schema — a database design — for digital publication of geologic maps. This

Getting Started With GeMS, Part A - An introduction to the GeMS schema, the GeMS Tools ArcGIS toolbox, and how to prepare ArcMap for digitizing.

The Geologic Map Schema (GeMS) defines a standard database schema — a database design — for digital publication of geologic maps. This tutorial is one of six

The Earth As Art project began in the early 2000s, and its original intent remains the same: to produce images that do not look like satellite images at first glance. Earth As Art shows not only what satellites capture in the visible wavelengths of light you and I can see, but also what’s hiding in the invisible wavelengths that Landsat sensors can detect in the infrared

The Earth As Art project began in the early 2000s, and its original intent remains the same: to produce images that do not look like satellite images at first glance. Earth As Art shows not only what satellites capture in the visible wavelengths of light you and I can see, but also what’s hiding in the invisible wavelengths that Landsat sensors can detect in the infrared

The Volcano Disaster Assistance Program (VDAP) is a team of USGS scientists funded by USAID and the USGS Volcano Hazards Program to help volcano observatories around the world. Catalyzed by the 1985 Nevado del Ruiz catastrophe, the USGS and USAID developed VDAP as a dedicated team of volcano scientists with a cache of instrumentation ready to respond to volcanic crises (at

The NRDAR science webinar series highlights expertise, data, and information developed for NRDAR cases or for potential new methods application. In this presentation, Mallery Quetawki describes her work turning contaminant data into art for communicating science to Native American communities.
 

A collection of video for use in products related to the USGS's streamgage at Lees Ferry. The USGS installed the Lees Ferry gauge 100 years ago, and the data collected since have become critical to monitoring water availability in the West.

Shot List:

• 0:00 Title slide
• 0:25 Lees Ferry streamgage wide shot and pan
• 0:33 Lees Ferry

For five days in March of 2021, the Glen Canyon Dam released a historically low flow of 4,000 cubic feet per second into the Colorado River. The USGS took this opportunity to collect data in an attempt to verify the measurements being reported by the Lee’s Ferry gaging station, which showed a discrepancy between the amount of water being released at the dam and the water

This thermal video shows the lava lake in Halema‘uma‘u, at the summit of Kīlauea. Lava is supplied from the western fissure, in the upper left portion of the video. Small vent openings atop the western fissure exhibit rhythmic gas puffing. The video is shown at 5x speed. 
 

Warmer, drier and longer fire seasons in the Northwest have led to larger and more frequent wildfires. These changes in fire activity, combined with warmer and drier post-fire conditions, have in turn led to growing concern that in some areas of the Northwest, particularly in forests and shrublands east of the Cascade Range, existing plant communities may face difficulty

How did the May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens change peoples’ lives? Carolyn Driedger talks about events that led up to the 1980 eruption and influenced scientists’ response to it, as well as what happened on May 18, and how the eruption changed people's lives and professions. This talk was presented for the Sno-Isle Libraries’ 2021 Whidbey Reads program.
 

This time-lapse sequence shows the growth of the lava lake in Halema‘uma‘u, at the summit of Kīlauea. The sequence starts on December 28, about a week after the start of the eruption and ends on March 10, 2021. The lake rises rapidly at first but then eventually slows down as the eruption rate gradually declines. The S1cam webcam time-lapse sequence includes approximately

This timelapse sequence shows several hours of activity in the lava lake in Halema‘uma‘u, at the summit of Kīlauea. Between March 5-7 a small lava pond developed near the vent. At approximately 1 pm on March 7, the levee of the pond collapsed, allowing the pond lava to drain into the main lake. Minor changes in the geometry of the western fissure, like this, happen

A routine helicopter overflight of the East Rift Zone of Kīlauea on March 4, 2021, allowed HVO geologists to conduct an updated visual and thermal survey. This video is shown at 5x speed and follows the new coastline created during the 2018 eruption in the Kapoho area. Lava along the shoreline continues to slowly erode, with small beaches forming in embayment's.