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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 policy 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.

News

LANDFIRE Marks 20 Years as One-Stop Data Shop for Fire—and More

LANDFIRE Marks 20 Years as One-Stop Data Shop for Fire—and More

USGS Satellites and Test Tubes Meet to Ensure Safe Drinking Water

USGS Satellites and Test Tubes Meet to Ensure Safe Drinking Water

New Tutorials Help Navigate Landsat Data in the Cloud

New Tutorials Help Navigate Landsat Data in the Cloud

Publications

Testing spatial out-of-sample area of influence for grain forecasting models

We examine the factors that determine if a grain forecasting model fit to one region can be transferred to another region. Prior research has proposed examining the area of applicability (AoA) of a model based on structurally similar characteristics in the Earth Observation predictors and weights based on the model derived feature importance. We expand on and evaluate this approach in the context
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Frank Davenport, Donghoon Lee, Shraddhanand Shukla, Greg Husak, W. Chris Funk, Michael Budde, James Rowland

Landsat geometric and radiometric calibration and characterization

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) 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 team continual
Authors
Jerad Shaw, Cody Anderson, Mike Choate, Esad Micijevic

Earth observation remote sensing tools—Assessing systems, trends, and characteristics

With the ever-increasing number of civil and commercial remote-sensing satellite launches in recent years, the Earth Observation community needs to better understand the quality of new data products as they become available for scientific research purposes.
Authors
Simon J. Cantrell, Jeff Clauson, Cody Anderson

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Eyes on Earth Episode 126 – Annual NLCD

The next generation of USGS land cover mapping is here. Annual NLCD provides land cover data of the U.S. every year back to 1985.
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Annual NLCD Characteristics, Constraints, and Caveats

This page provides information about specific artifacts that were discovered in review of Annual National Land Cover Database (NLCD) Collection 1.0 or provided by user feedback. These show up in the products listed below.
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Annual NLCD Characteristics, Constraints, and Caveats

This page provides information about specific artifacts that were discovered in review of Annual National Land Cover Database (NLCD) Collection 1.0 or provided by user feedback. These show up in the products listed below.
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Eyes on Earth Episode 125 – The LANDFIRE Program at 20

LANDFIRE is a diverse product suite with countless uses that go beyond fire management. The program has now been providing this satellite data for 20 years.
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Eyes on Earth Episode 125 – The LANDFIRE Program at 20

LANDFIRE is a diverse product suite with countless uses that go beyond fire management. The program has now been providing this satellite data for 20 years.
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