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Day 5 wet photo of Flaming Gorge Dam

Historical wet photography
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Historical arroyo formation: Documentation of magnitude and timing of historical changes using repeat photography

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Historical arroyo formation: documentation of magnitude and timing of historical changes using repeat photography

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Historical Aerial Photography for the Greater Everglades of South Florida: The 1940, 1:40,000 Photoset

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Unravelling long-term vegetation change patterns in a binational watershed using multitemporal land cover data and historical photography

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Unravelling long-term vegetation change patterns in a binational watershed using multitemporal land cover data and historical photography

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Remotely sensing the morphometrics and dynamics of a cold region dune field using historical aerial photography and airborne LiDAR data

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Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Georectified mosaic of historical aerial photographs of the Colorado River within the Lake Mead region, Arizona and Nevada, acquired in 1935

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Unveiling coseismic deformation from differenced legacy aerial photography and modern lidar topography: The 1983 M6.9 Borah Peak earthquake, Idaho, USA

Photography
Image: USGS Aerial Photography and Imagery Library

USGS Aerial Photography and Imagery Library
Center News
Satellite image showing validation high-water lines for Conceição-Duquesa beach

Old Postcards, New Science: Historical Photos Document 92 Years of Coastal Change

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Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Orthomosaic of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska from Historical Aerial Photographs

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Digital reproduction of historical aerial photographic prints for preserving a deteriorating archive

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Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Georectified mosaic of historical aerial photographs of the Colorado River in Palo Verde Valley, Arizona and California, acquired in 1930

Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

USGS Southwest Repeat Photography Collection: Kanab Creek, southern UT and northern AZ, 1872-2010

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Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Georectified mosaics of historical aerial photographs of the Colorado River in Parker Valley, Arizona and California, acquired in 1930, 1938, and 1947

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Person standing in San Pedro River valley near St. David, southern Arizona, 1891

Repeat photography of the San Pedro River valley, near St. David, southern AZ
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Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Georectified mosaic of historical aerial photographs of the Colorado River in Mohave Valley, Arizona, California, and Nevada, acquired in 1938

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Color infrared aerial photo scan, UMRS Pool 8, 2000

Develop Orthophotos and Mosaics from systemic color infrared aerial photography of the Upper Mississippi River System from 1975, 1989, 1994, and 2000

Center News
When were the first photographs of Kīlauea Volcano taken?...

Volcano Watch — When were the first photographs of Kīlauea Volcano taken?

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Beaver sitting on a rock

Beaver on a rock
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Three men posed under a canvas tent

Stereograms

Photography
Person standing in San Pedro River valley near St. David, southern Arizona, 1891

A man standing near the San Pedro River valley, St. David, southern Arizona, in 1891
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USGS laboratory in Washington DC where water samples 1883-87 from Yellowstone National Park were analyzed.

USGS water quality laboratory in Washington DC, 1901
Photography
Image: Grand Canyon Investigations: 131 Years in the Field

Grand Canyon Investigations: 131 Years in the Field
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The role of a non-native tree in riparian vegetation expansion and channel narrowing along a dryland river

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Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Geomorphic, climate, streamflow and vegetation data sets to reconstruct channel and vegetation changes associated with the invasion of Russian olive along the Escalante River, Utah 1950-2015.

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USGS Releases New Digital Aerial Products

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Long-term change in perennial vegetation along the Colorado river in Grand Canyon national park (1889-2010)

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Riparian-vegetation controls on the spatial pattern of stream-channel instability, Little Piney Creek, Missouri

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