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Join millions of people participating in America’s PrepareAthon! on Sept. 30. This campaign encourages the nation to conduct drills, discussions and...

On June 18, 2015 in Canberra, Australia, the U.S. Geological Survey and Geoscience Australia signed a comprehensive new partnership to maximize land...

Landsat satellite data have been produced, archived, and distributed by the U.S. Geological Survey since 1972. Data users in many different fields...

Sioux Falls, SD. — Climate change may pose a substantial future risk for sagebrush habitat in southwestern Wyoming, and thus adversely affect the...

Four federal agencies including the U.S. Geological Survey have joined forces in an effort to transform satellite data into vital information to...

The latest edition of the National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD 2011) for Alaska is now publicly available.

Improved global topographic (elevation) data are now publicly available for most of Asia (India, China, southern Siberia, Japan, Indonesia), Oceania...

A pioneer in mapping global land cover change and the team behind the United States’ most advanced land surface mapping satellite have both been...

When it comes to helping communities across the US stay up-to-date on their flood risk, the Landsat satellite can take a bow.

The Department of the Interior has released its remote sensing activities report.