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USGS Finds New Way to Measure Ocean Depth with Landsat

EROS scientists debut method in publication

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Landsat's Exciting Future

Upcoming Landsat Next's trio of satellites will provide more frequent imagery in more detail

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Landsat 8 State Mosaics

See your State as Landsat sees it

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Landsat - A Pillar of Land Remote Sensing

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Eyes on Earth

Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center.

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Landsat Benefits, State by State

How does your state use Landsat data?

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Change Stories

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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.

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Homepage image for Eyes on Earth Episode 123 – Bathymetry Mapping, showing a photo of Jeff Danielson

This episode of our remote sensing podcast describes how Landsat is used to map bathymetry in areas that are too difficult to map with lidar or sonar.

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Image of the Week

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The largest dam removal project in the history of the United States reached a major milestone at the end of August 2024 when crews demolished the last of four dams on the Klamath River, near the California-Oregon border.

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New Application Informs Users About Reprocessed Landsat Products

New Application Informs Users About Reprocessed Landsat Products

USGS supercomputers help assess volcanic hazards in support of community resilience

USGS supercomputers help assess volcanic hazards in support of community resilience

End of an era: Historic Landsat 7 mission takes final images

End of an era: Historic Landsat 7 mission takes final images

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ECCOE Landsat quarterly Calibration and Validation report—Quarter 1, 2024

Executive Summary The U.S. Geological Survey 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 Tea

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Md Obaidul Haque, Md Nahid Hasan, Ashish Shrestha, Rajagopalan Rengarajan, Mark Lubke, Jerad L. Shaw, Kathryn Ruslander, Esad Micijevic, Michael J. Choate, Cody Anderson, Jeffrey Clauson, Kurt Thome, Julia Barsi, Ed Kaita, Raviv Levy, Jeff Miller, Leibo Ding
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Mitigating disparate elevation differences between adjacent topobathymetric data models using binary code

Integrating coastal topographic and bathymetric data for creating regional seamless topobathymetric digital elevation models of the land/water interface presents a complex challenge due to the spatial and temporal gaps in data acquisitions. The Coastal National Elevation Database (CoNED) Applications Project develops topographic (land elevation) and bathymetric (water depth) regional scale digital
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William M. Cushing, Dean J. Tyler
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Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center

Ranking of 10 global one-arc-second DEMs reveals limitations in terrain morphology representation

At least 10 global digital elevation models (DEMs) at one-arc-second resolution now cover Earth. Comparing derived grids, like slope or curvature, preserves surface spatial relationships, and can be more important than just elevation values. Such comparisons provide more nuanced DEM rankings than just elevation root mean square error (RMSE) for a small number of points. We present three new compar
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Peter L. Guth, Sebastiano Trevisani, Carlos H. Grohmann, John Lindsay, Dean B. Gesch, Laurence Hawker, Conrad Bielski
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Eyes on Earth Episode 123 – Bathymetry Mapping

A satellite system designed to image land is helping fill in data gaps of underwater topography near shorelines.
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Core Science Systems Mission Area, National Land Imaging Program, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center , Landsat Missions
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Eyes on Earth Episode 123 – Bathymetry Mapping

A satellite system designed to image land is helping fill in data gaps of underwater topography near shorelines.
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Annual NLCD Science Product User Guide

Notice to users: The Annual NLCD product release is planned for late October 2024. At that time further content, such as product documentation and full access to data products, will become available and referenced from this site.
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Annual NLCD Science Product User Guide

Notice to users: The Annual NLCD product release is planned for late October 2024. At that time further content, such as product documentation and full access to data products, will become available and referenced from this site.
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About Annual NLCD

Notice to users: The Annual NLCD product release is planned for late October 2024. At that time further content, such as product documentation and full access to data products, will become available and referenced from this site.
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About Annual NLCD

Notice to users: The Annual NLCD product release is planned for late October 2024. At that time further content, such as product documentation and full access to data products, will become available and referenced from this site.
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