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A deadly series of California wildfires set thousands of firefighters and first responders into action in late 2018.

Charging for Landsat data “would not be worth the economic, legal, societal or political costs that would be incurred,” and it makes more sense to...

Landsat 9 mission updates and ground station preparation are among the major topics on the agenda for the scientists and engineers from 11 counties...

The USGS Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP) team will lead a workshop at the joint meeting of the 21st William T. Pecora...

With sea levels rising and storms increasingly threatening their shorelines and cliffs, officials in Southern California face some difficult decisions...

May 24, 2019, marked the 150th anniversary of the beginning of John Wesley Powell’s ambitious expedition through the canyonlands of Utah, Colorado...

The National Land Cover Database (NLCD) 2016 product suite was recently released for bulk download on the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics...

LP DAAC Project Scientist Tom Maiersperger still remembers the question clearly, back five years or so ago, when NASA's Land Processes Distributed...

Today, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) released the latest edition of the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) for the U.S. – the most comprehensive...

In March 1993, South African photographer Kevin Carter captured an iconic image near the village of Ayod in southern Sudan that made the world weep.

Th...