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Pecora Award Honors Excellence in Earth Observation

Pecora Award Honors Excellence in Earth Observation

Two awardees have been recognized with the 2019 William T. Pecora Award for achievements in Earth remote sensing.

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Visiting Scientists Will Bring EROS Water Monitoring Tools, Practices Home to Iraq

Visiting Scientists Will Bring EROS Water Monitoring Tools, Practices Home to Iraq

A group of four Iraqi scientists landed in Sioux Falls, SD recently to begin taking the final steps toward the fulfillment of a goal set in motion a...

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EROS Has Request of Federal Agencies: Send Us Your UAS Data

EROS Has Request of Federal Agencies: Send Us Your UAS Data

With Federal agencies turning more and more to drone technology to help fight wildfires, map wildlife habitat, and monitor natural resources, the...

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GOFC-GOLD: Improving Global Forest Monitoring While Building Collegialism

GOFC-GOLD: Improving Global Forest Monitoring While Building Collegialism

After the storm, after Cyclone Idai exacted widespread death and destruction across Southeast Africa in March 2019, Dominick Kwesha turned to his...

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USGS EROS Launches ‘Eyes on Earth’ podcast

USGS EROS Launches ‘Eyes on Earth’ podcast

Satellite data is everywhere. It’s in the swirling clouds of the nightly news weather forecasts and the land surface maps beneath them. It’s in our...

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Science Branch Chief Retires as a Man of Many Hats, Many Accomplishments at EROS

Science Branch Chief Retires as a Man of Many Hats, Many Accomplishments at EROS

He started at EROS in November 1980. His first job—data analyst in Science and Applications. From there, John Dwyer traveled a wide-ranging and...

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EROS’ Declassified Film Repository Reveals Land Use Changes After Calamities

EROS’ Declassified Film Repository Reveals Land Use Changes After Calamities

Volker Radeloff works in the remote sensing realm of calamity.

Where there’s been war, government collapse, even massive natural and man-made disasters...

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USGS EROS Staff Provide Elevation Expertise to Mangrove Project on Pohnpei

USGS EROS Staff Provide Elevation Expertise to Mangrove Project on Pohnpei

In 1850, the island of Nahlapenlohd in Micronesia was sprawling enough to support a great battle among warring chiefdoms within its sizeable coconut...

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Architecture Study Team Narrowing Options for Landsat Next

Architecture Study Team Narrowing Options for Landsat Next

What should Landsat 10—what some are calling Landsat Next, the next generation Landsat observing system—look like when it’s launched in the middle to...

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New EROS Lobby Display Puts Decades of Change at your Fingertips

New EROS Lobby Display Puts Decades of Change at your Fingertips

The USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center hosts more than 6,000 visitors every year, and there’s plenty to see.

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CoNED Measures Elevation, Helps Model Inundation Scenarios at Hawaiian Cultural Site

CoNED Measures Elevation, Helps Model Inundation Scenarios at Hawaiian Cultural Site

In the land of Kamehameha, south of Kona on the big island of Hawaii, a sacred landscape called Puʻuhonua O Hōnaunau faces the uncertainty of the...

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Imagery Evaluation Workshops to Focus on Interoperability, Opportunity

Imagery Evaluation Workshops to Focus on Interoperability, Opportunity

With the global inventory of Earth observation satellites growing by the week, questions of data quality and integration take on great significance.

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