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Featured Films and Shorts

LCMAP Collection 1 Science Products - Annual Land Cover Change

Illustrations
Chart demonstrating the land cover classes used by LCMAP.

Land Cover Class Legend

Featured Films and Shorts

LCMAP Collection 1 Science Products - Primary & Secondary Land Cover

Animated GIF
Land cover is animated through time in the Delaware River Basin.

Land Cover Change in the Delaware River Basin

Podcasts
color photo of Roger Auch with the graphic for the USGS EROS podcast Eyes on Earth

Eyes on Earth Episode 69 - Thirty Years of Land Change in the U.S.

Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

A circa 2010 global land cover reference dataset from commercial high resolution satellite data

publication
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Land Use on the Island of Oahu, Hawaii, 1998

publication
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Land-cover change detection

Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Spatially-explicit land-cover scenarios of federal lands in the northern Great Basin, 2018-2050

Podcasts
Color thumbnail for Eyes on Earth Episode 66 - Mapping Exotic Annual Grasses

Eyes on Earth Episode 66 – Exotic Annual Grasses

publication
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Effect of controlled land application of sludge on ground-water quality, Ocean County, New Jersey

publication
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Erosion and vegetation restoration impacts on ecosystem carbon dynamics in South China

Photography
Coastal river sand bar, Seward Peninsula

Coastal river sand bar, Seward Peninsula

Podcasts
color photo of USGS EROS scientist Matthew Rigge

Eyes on Earth Episode 42 – Rangelands of the U.S.

How to's and trainings

Getting Started with MODIS Version 6 Vegetation Indices Data Part 2

How to's and trainings

Getting Started with VIIRS Surface Reflectance Data Part 2

publication
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Insular ecosystems of the southeastern United States—A regional synthesis to support biodiversity conservation in a changing climate

How to's and trainings

Getting Started with MODIS V6 Surface Reflectance Data Part 2

Presentations and Events

2017 Nov. Pub. Lecture—Sea Otters: Confessions of a Keystone Carnivore

Presentations and Events

Communicating NRDAR Science: Translating Contaminant Data to Art

Topic
Land Cover Animation of Palm Springs, CA area

LCMAP Change Stories: Building a Boomtown, Block by Block

video

Climate-sensitive, Insular Ecosystems of the Southeast U.S.

Satellite imagery
Landsat 9 Image of Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier, Greenland

Landsat 9 Image of Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier, Greenland

Podcasts
A man's profile in front of a science poster with a microphone being held in front of him and a logo placed on top of him

Eyes on Earth Episode 109 – Fall 2023 EROS Poster Session

publication
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Snake River Basin Ecoregion: Chapter 24 in Status and trends of land change in the Western United States--1973 to 2000

Presentations and Events

Rainfall Variability and Drought in the Hawaiian Islands

How to's and trainings

PubTalk 12/2006 - Mojave

Podcasts
Color image of Dr. Zhiliang Zhu, Dr. Kyle Rodman, and Dr. Sarah Hart

Eyes on Earth Episode 64 - Colorado Bark Beetles

Presentations and Events

Mount St. Helens—Lives Changed, Lessons Learned, Legacies of 1980

Presentations and Events
July Public Lecture Thumbnail video intro image

PubTalk-07/2022 - Mapping the World from Satellites

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