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RESTON, Va. — The U.S. Geological Survey today released a newly updated and improved National Land Cover Database, known as Annual NLCD, which offers...

Longtime Research Physical Scientist Terry Sohl has been named branch chief for the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center’s...

We become intimately familiar with the land where we live, work and play. The backyard maple where three baby robins left their nest on the fourth...

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...

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

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...