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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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EROS Offers Two Postdoctoral Land Change Fellowships for 2021

EROS Offers Two Postdoctoral Land Change Fellowships for 2021

The USGS Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP) initiative is offering two Mendenhall Fellowships to improve its land change...

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The International Charter: 20 Years of Disaster Monitoring

The International Charter: 20 Years of Disaster Monitoring

The latest “Eyes on Earth” podcast is about the 20th anniversary of the International Charter Space and Major Disasters, a global organization made up...

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Doucette Promotes Parallels to LCMAP, Capacity Building in Talks About EarthMAP

Doucette Promotes Parallels to LCMAP, Capacity Building in Talks About EarthMAP

EROS Integrated Science and Applications Branch Chief Pete Doucette has been talking to groups about the Earth Monitoring, Analyses, and Prediction...

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MoD-FIS Brings Seasonal Fine Fuels Information to Wildland Fire Management

MoD-FIS Brings Seasonal Fine Fuels Information to Wildland Fire Management

In roughly 50 percent of New Mexico, Arizona, and west Texas, wildfires that burn across hard-baked desert landscapes need annual/invasive herbaceous...

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Miglarese, Radiant Earth Advocate for Benefits of Open Training Datasets

Miglarese, Radiant Earth Advocate for Benefits of Open Training Datasets

Anne Hale Miglarese has a simple mantra when it comes to gathering and using training data for remote sensing.

Collect it once, the founder of the...

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Agencies Announce Bold Initiative to Fill Water Management Data Gap in Western U.S.

Agencies Announce Bold Initiative to Fill Water Management Data Gap in Western U.S.

A bold new initiative called OpenET that is intended to fill the biggest data gap in water management in the western U.S. was announced Tuesday, Sept...

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Satellite Data Show Promise as Guide for West African Crop Insurance

Satellite Data Show Promise as Guide for West African Crop Insurance

The Green Revolution has yet to spread across West Africa.

Much of the region relies on low-yielding, drought-resistant crops like sorghum and millet...

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Landsat Science Team Member: Satellites Can Play Greater Role in Informing Global Policies

Landsat Science Team Member: Satellites Can Play Greater Role in Informing Global Policies

It shouldn’t surprise anyone that scientists and engineers are constantly pushing the envelope to improve remote-sensing data and their utility, says...

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New Edition of JACIE Remote Sensing Compendium Released for 2020

New Edition of JACIE Remote Sensing Compendium Released for 2020

The USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center and its Joint Agency Commercial Imagery Evaluation (JACIE) partners have just released...

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Fire Footprints stretch Across California, Colorado

Fire Footprints stretch Across California, Colorado

The accumulated wildfires engulfing miles of California countryside in the late summer of 2020 are historic in their collective size: more than 500...

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Lunar Calibration with Landsat

Lunar Calibration with Landsat

The next full moon will come on September 2, 2020. And when you look up to see it, so will Landsat 8. As probably the most accurate Earth imaging...

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Landsat 7 Flight Operations Team Celebrates Eight Straight Years of No Operator Errors

Landsat 7 Flight Operations Team Celebrates Eight Straight Years of No Operator Errors

The U.S. Geological Survey’s Landsat 7 Flight Operations Team achieved nothing less than a major milestone in mid-July of 2020. For eight straight...

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