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Landsat Science Team (LST) members meeting in early February in Phoenix, AZ, were briefed or provided input on a number of important issues involving...

The USGS is placing a copy of its consolidated Landsat global data inventory into a commercial cloud in early 2020.

When the world began downloading the first freely available Landsat images on Oct. 1, 2008, a lot of people wondered just how much imagery would fly...

What’s the value of data acquired from Landsat sensors when it comes to tracking toxic algal blooms in freshwater lakes? In monitoring vital habitat...

The conception of an invasive species in popular culture is generally tied to living things more mobile than cheatgrass – think zebra mussels in the...

The three largest countries in North America share trade, climate and culture in a host of broad and specific ways. A new set of land cover maps for...

Tracking large fire potential in the past, present, and future through remotely sensed data just got a lot simpler.

The Fire Danger Forecast project...

Terry Sohl is fairly unique among U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) research physical scientists at the Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS)...

Fires that rage through forests, consuming vegetation on the ground and spreading into canopies, almost always leave important questions behind when...

Space, it turns out, can be a messy place.

Sixty years of manned and unmanned space flight have left a cosmic junkyard circling the planet. From spent...