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Below you'll find the most recent news about EROS and USGS. Please contact Michelle Bouchard at mbouchard@usgs.gov for assistance with specific media questions and requests.

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Landsat 5 Flight Operations Team Wins Pecora Award

Landsat 5 Flight Operations Team Wins Pecora Award

Landsat 5, already honored by the Guinness Book of World Records as the Longest Operating Earth Observation Satellite, received another award at the...

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Pecora Awards Honor Excellence in Earth Observation

Pecora Awards Honor Excellence in Earth Observation

Images of Earth are so common these days that it’s easy to forget that these illuminating visuals are actually grounded in remote sensing data that...

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New Publication Describes Landsat 9 Geometric Characteristics

New Publication Describes Landsat 9 Geometric Characteristics

A recent publication provided the results of the analysis done from the Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 underfly activities that took place in late 2021.

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New JACIE Compendium Honors Past, Explores Future of Earth Observation

New JACIE Compendium Honors Past, Explores Future of Earth Observation

The 2022 Joint Agency Commercial Imagery Evaluation—Remote Sensing Satellite Compendium has been released in time for the upcoming 22nd William T...

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USGS EROS Wins Communications Award for Denver Refuge Display

USGS EROS Wins Communications Award for Denver Refuge Display

The USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center has won a USGS Shoemaker Award for Communications Product Excellence for a striking...

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USGS Sentinel-2 Data Archive Ends Soon

USGS Sentinel-2 Data Archive Ends Soon

The USGS Sentinel-2 archive will soon be decommissioned.

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Landsat 9 Captures Swirling Hurricane Ian

Landsat 9 Captures Swirling Hurricane Ian

For five decades, Landsat satellites have captured a variety of natural disasters and their effects. The most recently launched, Landsat 9, peered...

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Landsat Calibration/Validation Team Earns NASA Award

Landsat Calibration/Validation Team Earns NASA Award

Adding a new satellite to the Landsat Program is no small task, even if the satellite is supposed to be a copy of its older sibling. Working to ensure...

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Pecora 22 Program and Registration Now Available

Pecora 22 Program and Registration Now Available

The 22nd William T. Pecora Memorial Remote Sensing Symposium (Pecora 22) will convene in Denver, Colorado, from October 24 – 27, 2022.

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Landsat Collection 1 Datasets To Be Removed By End of 2022

Landsat Collection 1 Datasets To Be Removed By End of 2022

All Landsat Collection 1 data and science products will be removed from USGS data access platforms by the end of 2022.

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