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Landsat Update June 2021

Landsat Update June 2021

Landsat Updates are prepared periodically and distributed electronically to provide information about Landsat activities and related topics of...

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Land Use Models from EROS Offer Insight, Management Guidance for Delaware River Basin

Land Use Models from EROS Offer Insight, Management Guidance for Delaware River Basin

In the mid-1960s, the city of Philadelphia faced a potential public health crisis.

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Landsat Collection 1 Forward Processing to Cease at the End of 2021

Landsat Collection 1 Forward Processing to Cease at the End of 2021

 

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Looking at Past, Future Spread of Invasive Plants Like Cheatgrass

Looking at Past, Future Spread of Invasive Plants Like Cheatgrass

A new publication about exotic annual grasses not only documents their abundance across the western United States, but peers into the past to assess...

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LANDFIRE Releases Disturbance Data for 2017-19 with LF 2019 Limited

LANDFIRE Releases Disturbance Data for 2017-19 with LF 2019 Limited

A year ago, the Landscape Fire and Resource Planning Management Tools (LANDFIRE) Program released its 2016 Remap for the conterminous United States...

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USGS EROS Maps Highlight Growth in U.S. Irrigated Lands

USGS EROS Maps Highlight Growth in U.S. Irrigated Lands

There was 7 % more irrigated land in the U.S. in 2017 than there was in 2002. The biggest gainers were the Missouri, and Upper and Lower Mississippi...

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USGS EROS Supports Wildfire Science through Updates, Upgrades to Landscape Mapping

USGS EROS Supports Wildfire Science through Updates, Upgrades to Landscape Mapping

With the height of the 2021 wildfire season on the horizon, the U.S. Geological Survey is working to provide the research and data needed to plan for...

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Keeping an Eye on Vulnerable Coastal Wetlands

Keeping an Eye on Vulnerable Coastal Wetlands

Coastlines can have it pretty rough. Even a beach isn’t always sunshine. Wind and water constantly wear at its edges—and then there are the storms.

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USGS EROS Mapping Products to be Renamed Rangeland Condition, Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (RCMAP) with New Data Release

USGS EROS Mapping Products to be Renamed Rangeland Condition, Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (RCMAP) with New Data Release

The USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center’s geospatial rangeland products have been known by many names since their initial...

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How the Nation’s Forest Census Improves Satellite-Based Mapping

How the Nation’s Forest Census Improves Satellite-Based Mapping

It’s possible to map vegetation type with Landsat, but getting the maps right requires more than satellites alone.

The teams at the USGS Earth...

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LCMAP Releases Adds Data for 2018, 2019 with Release of Collection 1.1

LCMAP Releases Adds Data for 2018, 2019 with Release of Collection 1.1

The USGS Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP) initiative has released the first update to its Conterminous United States (CONUS)...

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New Report Explains Landsat’s Role as ‘Gold Standard’ for Calibration

New Report Explains Landsat’s Role as ‘Gold Standard’ for Calibration

Landsat data have long been recognized for the quality and reliability of their calibration. A recent report puts a spotlight on that commitment to...

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