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Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection

Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP) represents a new generation of land cover mapping and change monitoring from the U.S. Geological Survey’s Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. LCMAP answers a need for higher quality results at greater frequency with additional land cover and change variables than previous efforts.

News

Key National Climate Report Includes USGS EROS People and Products

Key National Climate Report Includes USGS EROS People and Products

2023 in Review: EROS Celebrated its 50th, Named a Director

2023 in Review: EROS Celebrated its 50th, Named a Director

EROS 50th History: A Leader in Mapping Land Cover and Change

EROS 50th History: A Leader in Mapping Land Cover and Change

Publications

Assessment of public and private land cover change in the United States from 1985–2018

An assessment of annual land cover on publicly and privately managed lands across the conterminous United States (CONUS) from 1985–2018 was performed, including land cover conversions within their management category, to inform future policy and land-use decision-making in natural resource management. Synthesizing land cover data with land management delineations aids our ability to address effect
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Nathan C. Healey, Janis L. Taylor, Roger F. Auch

Trends in tree cover change over three decades related to interannual climate variability and wildfire in California

The U.S. State of California has experienced frequent drought events, hotter temperatures and other disruptions to the climate system whose effects on ecosystems have been widely reported in recent decades. Studies primarily confined to specific vegetation communities or species, individual drought incidents, or analysis over a relatively short intervals, has limited our understanding of the broad
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Francis K Dwomoh, Roger F. Auch, Jesslyn F. Brown, Heather J. Tollerud

Toward consistent change detection across irregular remote sensing time series observations

The use of remote sensing in time series analysis enables wall-to-wall monitoring of the land surface and is critical for assessing and understanding land cover and land use change and for understanding the Earth system as a whole. However, variability in remote sensing observation frequency through time and across space presents challenges for producing consistent change detection results through
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Heather J. Tollerud, Zhe Zhu, Kelcy Smith, Danika F. Wellington, Reza Hussain, Donna Viola

Science

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Eyes on Earth Episode 115 – EROS Women in Science

To celebrate Women’s History Month, we gathered some of the women who have made a difference in science at EROS.
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Eyes on Earth Episode 107 – EROS 50th: Land Cover, Part 2

The next step for two strong land cover products at USGS EROS is to combine them to create something even better.
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Eyes on Earth Episode 106 – EROS 50th: Land Cover, Part 1

USGS EROS contributed to a better understanding of the Earth’s surface by leading early land cover mapping efforts.
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