Images

The USGS Landsat archive holds over fifty years of Earth-Observing satellite data. This animation displays the cumulative number of Landsat scenes since 1972. The colors on the maps show the density of the number of Landsat Level-1 products. 

3D Rendering of lidar point cloud over Delicate Arch. From USGS_LPC_UT_FEMA_FS_FlamingGorge_2020_B20_12SXH300885.laz. Delicate Arch at Arches National Park in Moab, Utah with a green to gray color ramp symbology with green representing low elevation, and gray representing high elevation

Lidar Point Cloud of the White House and the US Department of Commerce in the Herbert Hoover Federal Building with a green to gray color ramp symbology with green representing low elevation, and gray representing high elevation

Figure 2. Image showing 3D Hydrography Program data for Canyon Creek watershed, Oregon. The colors indicate elevation from low (blue) to high (brown). Both the colors within the watershed and the shaded relief surrounding the watershed are based on data from the 3D Elevation Program.

This map of the United States and its territories shows geographic extent of completion of the first-ever national baseline of consistent high-resolution elevation data - both bare earth and 3D point clouds.

Landsat 8's Operational Land Imager (OLI) captured this icy view of Ayon Island on June 17, 2024. The island's low-lying tundra and the shorelines create a picturesque view from its high latitude location in the East Siberian Sea. This unique polar landmass is separated from the mainland by the Malyy Chaunskiy Strait.

This is a close-up of a 1:100,000-scale topographic map (100K Topo) of the Arizona National Scenic Trail (AZ NST) from the Kaibab Plateau at top to the Grand Canyon North Rim at bottom. The AZ NST is highlighted in red. This map shows contour lines, hydrography, landform names, land cover, federal lands, roads, and structures. 

This is a 1:2,000,000-scale map of Arizona with the entire Arizona National Scenic Trail shown in red. The basemap is the USGS Topo basemap taken from USGS The National Map. 

Screenshot showing the use of the topoBuilder application to create on demand topographic maps. Edit cart.

Screenshot showing the use of the topoBuilder application to create on demand topographic maps, customize map.

Screenshot showing the use of the topoBuilder application to create on demand topographic maps, edit map.

Screenshot showing the use of the topoBuilder application to create on demand topographic maps. Step one select a map.

For 25 years, the Landsat 7 satellite acquired millions of images of Earth that supported studies of how land is used and how it has changed across urban, agriculture, forest, snow and ice-covered areas around the globe, as well as natural and manmade disasters.

Group photo during the Norwegian Ambassador's visit to EROS. 

The U.S. Geological Survey and German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt  or DLR sign statement for plans to continue partnership with the upcoming Landsat Next satellite mission.

USGS and German Aerospace Center sign statement of intent for upcoming Landsat Next mission.

(Left to Right): Head of the DLR Space Division Dr. Anke Pagels-Kerp and USGS Deputy Director-Operations Cindy Lodge.

Image from the inaugural U.S.-Germany Space Dialogue Space Dialogue in Berlin on June 4, 2024.

USGS Deputy Director-Operations Cindy Lodge shown here with DLR’s German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) Director professor Stefan Dech at DLR’s Earth Observation Center in Oberpfaffenhofen finalizing the signatures on the statement of intent for the upcoming Landsat Next mission. 

This graphic displays the millions of downloads of Landsat Level-1 data from the USGS EROS Center since the Landsat archive was made available for download at no charge in 2008. 

As of March 2024, over 201 million Level-1 data have been downloaded. 

Aerial photo of National Geospatial Program employees spelling out NGP taken from a Skydio X10 drone with the VT300-Z camera by Todd Burton

This image was taken of the Martian surface by the NASA MSL rover on sol 4158, showing an assortment of clasts.