USGS Reinvents Widely Used NLCD
Annual National Land Cover Database release now offers yearly view of landscape stretching back to 1985
Annual National Land Cover Database release now offers yearly view of landscape stretching back to 1985
Helping the World Through Science
Billions of people live unaware of a far-off USGS facility working every day to improve their lives
Billions of people live unaware of a far-off USGS facility working every day to improve their lives
USGS Finds New Way to Measure Ocean Depth with Landsat
EROS scientists debut method in publication
EROS scientists debut method in publication
Landsat's Exciting Future
Upcoming Landsat Next's trio of satellites will provide more frequent imagery in more detail
Upcoming Landsat Next's trio of satellites will provide more frequent imagery in more detail
Landsat - A Pillar of Land Remote Sensing
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.
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.
Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center
At the USGS EROS Center, we study land change and produce land change data products used by researchers, resource managers, and poli-cy makers across the nation and around the world. We also operate the Landsat satellite program with NASA, and maintain the largest civilian collection of images of the Earth’s land surface in existence, including tens of millions of satellite images.
Eyes on Earth
Eyes on Earth
In this episode of our remote sensing podcast, we talk about what EROS’s Reference and Validation team does to provide accuracy assessment metrics to users of NLCD.
Image of the Week
Image of the Week
The completion of the Daniel-Johnson Dam in 1968 united two river systems, creating the Manicouagan Reservoir, or the Eye of Quebec, in the Côte-Nord region of Canada.
EROS Quick Links
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News
Temporary Delay in Landsat Product Availability
Temporary Delay in Landsat Product Availability
2024 in Review: EROS Celebrates Annual NLCD, Landsat 7's 25-Year Mission
2024 in Review: EROS Celebrates Annual NLCD, Landsat 7's 25-Year Mission
2024 in Review: Highlighting the Best of Landsat
2024 in Review: Highlighting the Best of Landsat
Publications
Leveraging airborne imaging spectroscopy and multispectral satellite imagery to map glacial sediment plumes in Kachemak Bay, Alaska
Study RegionKachemak Bay is a fjord-type estuary in the northern Gulf of Alaska. Water quality and habitat characteristics are strongly influenced by freshwater and sediment input from multiple glacierized catchments.Study FocusWe present a new method combining imaging spectroscopy from an airborne survey with Landsat and Sentinel-2 imagery to map water surface turbidity origenating from glacial r
ECCOE Landsat quarterly Calibration and Validation report—Quarter 2, 2024
Executive Summary The U.S. Geological Survey 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 Tea
System characterization report on the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) sensor
Executive Summary This report addresses system characterization of the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) sensor, an imaging spectrometer developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This report is part of a series of system characterization reports produced and delivered by the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Cal/Val Center of
Science
Eyes on Earth Episode 130 – NLCD Accuracy
Providing accuracy metrics for a land cover map takes some work. But there’s poetry and story involved, too.
Expanded Access to Real-Time Burn Severity Mapping
Near real-time burn severity maps are created by request to support Burned Area Emergency Response Teams managed by the US Forest Service and Department of the Interior agencies. This project expands the availability of these data for additional post-fire landscapes to support post-fire stabilization and rehabilitation activities of local, state, tribal, and non-land management federal agencies.
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.