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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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Land Use Models from EROS Offer Insight, Management Guidance for Delaware River Basin

In the mid-1960s, the city of Philadelphia faced a potential public health crisis.

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New Land Cover Maps Depict 15 Years of Change across America

Today, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) released the latest edition of the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) for the U.S. – the most comprehensive...

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USGS Accurately Projects Impacts of Transforming Agricultural Landscapes

When a forest gives way to a potato field, when landscapes once teeming with wheat and barley disappear into seas of switchgrass, there are always...

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