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National Land Imaging Program

Our Nation’s economic security and environmental vitality rely on continuous monitoring of the Earth’s continents, islands, and coastal regions in order to record, study, and understand land change at local, regional, and global scales. The USGS National Land Imaging (NLI) Program helps meet this need.

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Upcoming Maintenance to Interrupt USGS EROS Product Distribution

Upcoming Maintenance to Interrupt USGS EROS Product Distribution

Latest in Landsat December 2024 - Vol. 3 | Issue 12

Annual NLCD Assessment: Phosphate Mining and Land Cover Change

Annual NLCD Assessment: Phosphate Mining and Land Cover Change

Publications

Landsat geometric and radiometric calibration and characterization

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science Calibration and Validation (Cal/Val) Center of Excellence (ECCOE) focuses on improving the accuracy, precision, calibration, and product quality of remote-sensing data, leveraging years of multiscale optical system geometric and radiometric calibration and characterization experience. The ECCOE Landsat Cal/Val team continual
Authors
Jerad Shaw, Cody Anderson, Mike Choate, Esad Micijevic

Earth observation remote sensing tools—Assessing systems, trends, and characteristics

With the ever-increasing number of civil and commercial remote-sensing satellite launches in recent years, the Earth Observation community needs to better understand the quality of new data products as they become available for scientific research purposes.
Authors
Simon J. Cantrell, Jeff Clauson, Cody Anderson

Joint Agency Commercial Imagery Evaluation (JACIE)

The Joint Agency Commercial Imagery Evaluation (JACIE) was formed to leverage resources from several Federal agencies for the characterization of remote sensing data and to share those results across the remote sensing community (U.S. Geological Survey, 2024).Remote sensing data and the quality of that data are vital to (1) understanding the physical world and (2) supporting the science and engine
Authors
Jeff Clauson, Cody Anderson, Jim Vrabel

Science

Eyes on Earth Episode 129 – What Happens During a Landsat Pass?

For this episode, we go inside the Landsat operations room at EROS to see what happens during a live Landsat pass.
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Eyes on Earth Episode 129 – What Happens During a Landsat Pass?

For this episode, we go inside the Landsat operations room at EROS to see what happens during a live Landsat pass.
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Eyes on Earth Episode 128 – 2024 EROS Fall Poster Session

Posters covered a wide range of topics as local graduate students and EROS scientists shared their work in the EROS atrium.
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Eyes on Earth Episode 128 – 2024 EROS Fall Poster Session

Posters covered a wide range of topics as local graduate students and EROS scientists shared their work in the EROS atrium.
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Eyes on Earth Episode 127 – The Historic Landsat 7 Mission

Taking care of a satellite that’s 438 miles in space requires creative problem solving—we talk about those moments and memories of the nearly 25 years of land imaging from Landsat 7.
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Eyes on Earth Episode 127 – The Historic Landsat 7 Mission

Taking care of a satellite that’s 438 miles in space requires creative problem solving—we talk about those moments and memories of the nearly 25 years of land imaging from Landsat 7.
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