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A selection of coastal and ocean videos and photographs from across the USGS.

Most remote-sensing techniques rely on imagery taken at a specific time and place. What if researchers could crowd-source this data from volunteers...

The future of many coasts is tied to the delivery of land-based sediment. The natural supply of sediment to coasts from adjacent rivers and watersheds...

A new report from the White House offers federal recommendations for supporting nature-based solutions to fight climate change, citing USGS coral reef...

Most coral reefs around the world are declining due to a myriad of external stressors, including climate change impacts such as rising sea-surface...

A recently completed series of data publications led by the U.S. Geological Survey represents the first time the fault has been mapped using...

A new commentary by USGS scientists and collaborators looks at the current state of science that measures landscape responses to modern climate change...

A new U.S. Geological Survey coastal change forecast predicts sandy beaches and dunes in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina are likely to see...

Classifying imagery based on identifiable pixels—labeling pixels of a certain color “water” and others as “land”, for example—is known as image...