USGS Reinvents Widely Used NLCD
Annual National Land Cover Database release now offers yearly view of landscape stretching back to 1985
Annual National Land Cover Database release now offers yearly view of landscape stretching back to 1985
Helping the World Through Science
Billions of people live unaware of a far-off USGS facility working every day to improve their lives
Billions of people live unaware of a far-off USGS facility working every day to improve their lives
USGS Finds New Way to Measure Ocean Depth with Landsat
EROS scientists debut method in publication
EROS scientists debut method in publication
Landsat's Exciting Future
Upcoming Landsat Next's trio of satellites will provide more frequent imagery in more detail
Upcoming Landsat Next's trio of satellites will provide more frequent imagery in more detail
Landsat - A Pillar of Land Remote Sensing
Eyes on Earth
Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center.
Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center.
Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center
At the USGS EROS Center, we study land change and produce land change data products used by researchers, resource managers, and policy makers across the nation and around the world. We also operate the Landsat satellite program with NASA, and maintain the largest civilian collection of images of the Earth’s land surface in existence, including tens of millions of satellite images.
Eyes on Earth
Eyes on Earth
This episode of our remote sensing podcast we talk with the Flight Operations Team about operating Landsat 7 during its long lifetime.
Image of the Week
Image of the Week
The completion of the Daniel-Johnson Dam in 1968 united two river systems, creating the Manicouagan Reservoir, or the Eye of Quebec, in the Côte-Nord region of Canada.
EROS Quick Links
EROS Quick Links
Find frequently visited webpages below.
News
LANDFIRE Marks 20 Years as One-Stop Data Shop for Fire—and More
LANDFIRE Marks 20 Years as One-Stop Data Shop for Fire—and More
USGS Satellites and Test Tubes Meet to Ensure Safe Drinking Water
USGS Satellites and Test Tubes Meet to Ensure Safe Drinking Water
New Tutorials Help Navigate Landsat Data in the Cloud
New Tutorials Help Navigate Landsat Data in the Cloud
Publications
Testing spatial out-of-sample area of influence for grain forecasting models
We examine the factors that determine if a grain forecasting model fit to one region can be transferred to another region. Prior research has proposed examining the area of applicability (AoA) of a model based on structurally similar characteristics in the Earth Observation predictors and weights based on the model derived feature importance. We expand on and evaluate this approach in the context
Landsat geometric and radiometric calibration and characterization
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science Calibration and Validation (Cal/Val) Center of Excellence (ECCOE) focuses on improving the accuracy, precision, calibration, and product quality of remote-sensing data, leveraging years of multiscale optical system geometric and radiometric calibration and characterization experience. The ECCOE Landsat Cal/Val team continual
Earth observation remote sensing tools—Assessing systems, trends, and characteristics
With the ever-increasing number of civil and commercial remote-sensing satellite launches in recent years, the Earth Observation community needs to better understand the quality of new data products as they become available for scientific research purposes.
Science
Eyes on Earth Episode 127 – The Historic Landsat 7 Mission
Taking care of a satellite that’s 438 miles in space requires creative problem solving—we talk about those moments and memories of the nearly 25 years of land imaging from Landsat 7.
Eyes on Earth Episode 126 – Annual NLCD
The next generation of USGS land cover mapping is here. Annual NLCD provides land cover data of the U.S. every year back to 1985.
Annual NLCD Characteristics, Constraints, and Caveats
This page provides information about specific artifacts that were discovered in review of Annual National Land Cover Database (NLCD) Collection 1.0 or provided by user feedback. These show up in the products listed below.