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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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USGS Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection releases ‘unprecedented’ reference dataset for United States

USGS Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection releases ‘unprecedented’ reference dataset for United States

The USGS Land Change Monitoring, Assessment and Projection (LCMAP) team has released its reference dataset for the Conterminous U.S. (CONUS), an 25...

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LANDFIRE Proves Critical to First Nationwide Tool on Wildfire Risk to Communities

LANDFIRE Proves Critical to First Nationwide Tool on Wildfire Risk to Communities

Mayors, city councilors and county commissioners have a lot on their minds.

Questions of policing, budgeting, or public health gobble up time and...

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Making Use of MSS: The Effort to Fold the Earliest Data into the Landsat Record

Making Use of MSS: The Effort to Fold the Earliest Data into the Landsat Record

It’s not uncommon for young scientists doing remote sensing research these days to use what they call the “full Landsat record” in their studies—a...

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Doucette Discusses Future of EROS Science, EarthMAP as New Branch Chief

Doucette Discusses Future of EROS Science, EarthMAP as New Branch Chief

Coming from Reston, VA, to the rural landscape surrounding the Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center near Sioux Falls, SD, has brought...

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Vanderhoof Uses Landsat to Look at the Ecological Impacts of Fire and Water

Vanderhoof Uses Landsat to Look at the Ecological Impacts of Fire and Water

Melanie Vanderhoof works in the realms of fire and water, studying how they change landscapes and influence the ecological rhythms of Nature.

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New Land Cover Maps Depict 15 Years of Alaska Change

New Land Cover Maps Depict 15 Years of Alaska Change

The latest edition of the National Land Cover Database (NLCD 2016) for Alaska is now publicly available.

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Mendenhall Program Served as Springboard into Remote Sensing Career for Tollerud

Mendenhall Program Served as Springboard into Remote Sensing Career for Tollerud

Dr. Heather Tollerud came to the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center with an eye to drought and its ripple effects across time...

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Remote Presentations No Problem for Successful Landsat 9 Mission Operations Review

Remote Presentations No Problem for Successful Landsat 9 Mission Operations Review

USGS and NASA officials made remote presentations instead of traveling to the Goddard Space Flight Center March 31-April 1 to conduct a vital Mission...

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EROS’ Dwomoh Has Played Vital Role in Monitoring, Protecting Ghana’s Forests

EROS’ Dwomoh Has Played Vital Role in Monitoring, Protecting Ghana’s Forests

They say in Ghana that spirits inhabit the forests. That some groves are so sacred that only chiefs and kings can be buried there. That the culture...

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How ‘Synthetic’ Landsat Can Help Produce Better Maps

How ‘Synthetic’ Landsat Can Help Produce Better Maps

On a cool March morning in 2019, LANDFIRE program leaders were sitting in a conference room at the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS)...

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Mapping Near-Surface Permafrost: EROS Work Important for Studying Arctic

Mapping Near-Surface Permafrost: EROS Work Important for Studying Arctic

Imagine, Neal Pastick says, if the infrastructure under your house disappeared. If the concrete forms or block basement walls disintegrated over time...

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LCMAP Promises New Insight on Land Surface Change

LCMAP Promises New Insight on Land Surface Change

Landsat satellite imagery has been a boon to the study of the Earth’s surface for nearly five decades, but researchers at the USGS Earth Resources...

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