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EROS Burn Mapping Crucial in Post-Fire Risk Assessments

EROS Burn Mapping Crucial in Post-Fire Risk Assessments

It began with a tree falling onto a power line.

There were sparks, then very quickly a wilderness ablaze. In its first 13 hours, the Las Conchas Fire...

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New Study Provides the First Comprehensive, Long-term Look at Alaska’s Changing Ecosystems

New Study Provides the First Comprehensive, Long-term Look at Alaska’s Changing Ecosystems

New research has revealed significant changes to Alaska’s landscape in recent decades

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Retiring Center Director Kelly Ponders Mile Markers on the Road to EROS

Retiring Center Director Kelly Ponders Mile Markers on the Road to EROS

A framed letter sits on a small table in the corner of Dr. Frank Kelly’s office, signed by the director of the National Weather Service (NWS)...

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2017 CEOS Chair Team Led by USGS EROS Given Unit Award for Excellence of Service

2017 CEOS Chair Team Led by USGS EROS Given Unit Award for Excellence of Service

EROS team earns top honor from Department of Interior for work with international body.

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EROS Work Called 'Critical' to Wildfire Mapping, Response

EROS Work Called 'Critical' to Wildfire Mapping, Response

Remotely-sensed data key to response in tracking danger in areas like Montecito 

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Loveland Selected for South Dakota Hall of Fame

Loveland Selected for South Dakota Hall of Fame

Former Chief Scientist's contributions as head of Landsat Science Team, commitment to education recognized

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Senay, EROS Helping to Solve Riddle of Water Use in Upper Klamath Basin

Senay, EROS Helping to Solve Riddle of Water Use in Upper Klamath Basin

Scientists at EROS use remote sensing data to assist in the understanding of water dynamics in Upper Klamath 

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Landsat Global Archive Consolidation Initiative Ingests 5 Millionth Scene

Landsat Global Archive Consolidation Initiative Ingests 5 Millionth Scene

An eight-year effort to repatriate millions of Landsat scenes locked away in ground station outposts around the world reached a milestone in March...

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Free, Open Landsat Data Unleashed the Power of Remote Sensing a Decade Ago

Free, Open Landsat Data Unleashed the Power of Remote Sensing a Decade Ago

In the old days, before 2008, a view of planet Earth from space often came at a cost. Want a Multispectral Scanner digital image in 1979 from Landsat...

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Landsat 9 Ground System Development Not Simply a Repeat of Landsat 8

Landsat 9 Ground System Development Not Simply a Repeat of Landsat 8

It might seem at first blush that developing and building a ground system for the upcoming Landsat 9 mission would be less complicated than past...

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New Landsat Multi-Satellite Operations Center Important on Many Levels

New Landsat Multi-Satellite Operations Center Important on Many Levels

The future of Landsat mission operations is unfolding these days on the Goddard Space Flight Center campus against a backdrop of hammers swinging and...

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EROS Plays Major Role in Evolution of Lidar Technology and Applications

EROS Plays Major Role in Evolution of Lidar Technology and Applications

USGS has produced topographic maps of American landscapes for more than a century as part of its Congressional mandate to maintain the elevation data...

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