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Earth As Art 6
As always, our newest collection of Earth As Art relies on the interplay of visible and invisible light across the electromagnetic spectrum made possible by satellite sensors. The stunning views seen in Earth As Art 6 carry on that two decade tradition, but also include high-resolution imagery captured by Unmanned Aircraft Systems - commonly referred to as drones - for the first time. ...
Eyes on Earth Episode 5 - Declassified Data at EROS
Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we learn how declassified satellite data helps scientists study the past.
Eyes on Earth Episode 4 - Cataloging Earth Observation Satellites
Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we learn about the ever-expanding number of Earth observation satellites.
Episode 3 - National Land Cover Database
Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we talk about the National Land Cover Database.
Episode 2 - Chernobyl
Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we talk about the Chernobyl disaster.
Episode 1 - Intro to EROS
Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we learn about EROS history and purpose.
Eyes on Earth
Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center.
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LCMAP Change Stories: Hurricanes in the Everglades
When Atlantic hurricanes make landfall in south Florida, the coastal marshes and mangrove forests of the Everglades often act as a buffer that protects residents from rising sea levels, high winds and storm surge.
Earth As Art 5
In the 5th edition of Earth as Art, we continue to display the Earth as our eyes cannot see it—in creative combinations of visible and infrared light. These unreal views of farmland, coastlines, and snowscapes remind us of the powerfully artistic qualities of Earth’s land features.
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Earth As Art 4
Earth as Art 4 highlights vibrant images from every continent captured by Landsat 8, which launched in February 2013. Visit the Land of Terror, the Putrid Sea, and see some Cubist art—Landsat style.
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Earth As Art 3
The Landsat 5 and Landsat 7 satellites show intriguing views of the planet’s complex surface in the Earth as Art Three exhibit. Look for a monster, a tiger, a scary face, and something we call Van Gogh from Space.
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Earth As Art 2
Landsat 7 and the ASTER and MODIS sensors aboard NASA’s Aqua and Terra satellites take you around the world for more stunning views of Earth.
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EROS Aids in Surveys of Greenhouse Gas-emitting Arctic Lakes
In the Arctic, there are lakes where the bubbles will burn.
The bubbles are filled with methane gas. The flammable archaeal belches form as microbes feast on stores of long-frozen organic matter, freed up for decomposition thanks to permafrost thawing somewhere deep beneath the lakebed.
New EROS Satellite Products, Research Begin to Detail Urban Hot Spots
Cities are hotter than countrysides. That much was known long before efforts began to quantify the urban heat island (UHI) effect with data points.
New Earth As Art Collection Now Available
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center is proud to announce the 6th addition to Earth As Art.
Visiting Scientists Will Bring EROS Water Monitoring Tools, Practices Home to Iraq
A group of four Iraqi scientists landed in Sioux Falls, SD recently to begin taking the final steps toward the fulfillment of a goal set in motion a decade ago for the Middle Eastern nation: A data-rich, self-sustaining water resource monitoring program.
EROS Has Request of Federal Agencies: Send Us Your UAS Data
With Federal agencies turning more and more to drone technology to help fight wildfires, map wildlife habitat, and monitor natural resources, the managers of the largest civilian archive of remotely sensed data on the planet have a simple request of them.
Send all that data from your Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) to us.
GOFC-GOLD: Improving Global Forest Monitoring While Building Collegialism
After the storm, after Cyclone Idai exacted widespread death and destruction across Southeast Africa in March 2019, Dominick Kwesha turned to his friends at the Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center for assistance.
USGS EROS Launches ‘Eyes on Earth’ podcast
Satellite data is everywhere. It’s in the swirling clouds of the nightly news weather forecasts and the land surface maps beneath them. It’s in our pockets, showing up as base layers in smartphone mapping applications.
Science Branch Chief Retires as a Man of Many Hats, Many Accomplishments at EROS
He started at EROS in November 1980. His first job—data analyst in Science and Applications. From there, John Dwyer traveled a wide-ranging and opportunistic path through what he calls an incredibly satisfying career here at the Center.
EROS’ Declassified Film Repository Reveals Land Use Changes After Calamities
Volker Radeloff works in the remote sensing realm of calamity.
Where there’s been war, government collapse, even massive natural and man-made disasters, Radeloff peers through aerial and satellite imagery and documents the socioeconomic aftershocks that typically follow such widescale upheaval to landscapes and land uses.
EROS Staff Provide Elevation Expertise to Mangrove Project on Pohnpei
In 1850, the island of Nahlapenlohd in Micronesia was sprawling enough to support a great battle among warring chiefdoms within its sizeable coconut forest. But that was then. Today, Nahlapenlohd and seven nearby islands in the western Pacific are no more, having been swallowed by the rising sea.
Architecture Study Team Narrowing Options for Landsat Next
What should Landsat 10—what some are calling Landsat Next, the next generation Landsat observing system—look like when it’s launched in the middle to later 2020s? What should its capabilities be? And how might it be different while continuing the same consistency of Earth observations for which its Landsat predecessors are known?
New EROS Lobby Display Puts Decades of Change at your Fingertips
The USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center hosts more than 6,000 visitors every year, and there’s plenty to see.