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Research Grade Evaluation Offers Path to Advancement, Scientific Leadership

Research Grade Evaluation Offers Path to Advancement, Scientific Leadership

Scientific research, development, and operations meant to help manage Earth’s natural resources are the bread and butter of work done at the Earth...

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Organizational Science and the Role of Research and Development

Organizational Science and the Role of Research and Development

This is the first of a two-part series on the role of Research Grade Evaluation (RGE) scientists at the Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS)...

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Rangeland Mapping Tools Take Users Back in Time Across Western U.S.

Rangeland Mapping Tools Take Users Back in Time Across Western U.S.

The USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center and Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management have just released an...

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LANDFIRE Remap Marks Major Improvements for Essential Resource Management Dataset

LANDFIRE Remap Marks Major Improvements for Essential Resource Management Dataset

Rick Stratton of the USDA Forest Service remembers life before LANDFIRE.

A fire would ignite, setting Stratton and his fellow fire analysts to work...

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USGS-University of Montana Data Layer Plays Critical Role in Western Governors' New Toolkit for Invasive Grass Management

USGS-University of Montana Data Layer Plays Critical Role in Western Governors' New Toolkit for Invasive Grass Management

An unprecedented collaboration between USGS and University of Montana researchers to produce a data layer showing where invasive grasses threaten...

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NLCD Readies Improvements for Upcoming Release of 2019 Product Suite

NLCD Readies Improvements for Upcoming Release of 2019 Product Suite

The next edition of the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) will appear more quickly than previous editions, offer accuracy comparable to NLCD 2016...

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Tree Ring Science Offers Valuable Glimpse at Environmental Climate Trends

Tree Ring Science Offers Valuable Glimpse at Environmental Climate Trends

Researchers studying land cover and land use through time know they have a gold mine in a Landsat archive that spans almost 50 years. But it’s not the...

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Tracking Change Across Time and Space with LCMAP

Tracking Change Across Time and Space with LCMAP

The U.S. Geological Survey took a bold step toward documenting change across the landscape with the launch of the first Landsat satellite in 1972...

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Bauer Discusses Peer Review’s Role in Strengthening Remote Sensing Science

Bauer Discusses Peer Review’s Role in Strengthening Remote Sensing Science

Remote sensing is not an especially recognized scientific discipline, at least in comparison to fields like biology, chemistry, or medicine.

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Denali, Tallgrass at EROS Launch New Era in High-Performance Computing Capabilities

Denali, Tallgrass at EROS Launch New Era in High-Performance Computing Capabilities

One of the challenges in prototyping and evaluating research projects related to the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Land Change Monitoring...

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Wildfire Support from 438 Miles Above

Wildfire Support from 438 Miles Above

USGS Fire Science is fundamental to understanding the causes, consequences, and benefits of wildfire and helps prevent and manage larger, catastrophic...

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Calibration Test Site Becomes Agricultural Hotspot

Calibration Test Site Becomes Agricultural Hotspot

The Landsat satellites were designed to detect landscape changes over time. However, sometimes what Landsat needs to see on the Earth’s surface is no...

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