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Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS) Home Science Data and Tools Maps Publications Software Multimedia News Connect Partners About Home 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. What's New at EROS? Eyes on Earth is a podcast covering a range of topics on remote sensing, satellite operations, and the science of Earth observation. Watch for new episodes every two weeks. Listen here Image of the Week If conditions on the ground are right, a snow pattern can reveal a storm's path with remarkable detail. Snowfall patterns in China and the Midwest are featured in our latest video. Snowfall Sides EROS Quick Links EarthExplorer EarthNow! Landsat Viewer USGS EROS Archive Products Image Galleries Outreach and Education EROS User Group EROS Social Media EROS History Project News Date published: February 10, 2020 Looking into the Future: The Art and Science of Land Use Projections Terry Sohl is fairly unique among U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) research physical scientists at the in that he spends less time looking at the past and present, and more time peering into the future. Attribution: Land Resources , Date published: January 24, 2020 EROS Fire Scientists Look at Potential Use of Lidar for Operational Burn Mapping Fires that rage through forests, consuming vegetation on the ground and spreading into canopies, almost always leave important questions behind when they are done. Like, what in fact burned? Where did it burn? How intense was the burn? And how far into the canopy did it reach? Attribution: Land Resources , Date published: January 8, 2020 Space Debris Remains Ongoing Concern for Landsat, Other Satellites Space, it turns out, can be a messy place. Sixty years of manned and unmanned space flight have left a cosmic junkyard circling the planet. From spent boosters to the detritus of defunct satellites, collisions, and explosions, there are countless potential cataclysms waiting to happen as space debris travels at relative velocities approaching 18,000 miles per hour. Attribution: Land Resources , View All News Publications Year Published: 2020 Quantifying western U.S. rangelands as fractional components with landsat Quantifying western U.S. rangelands as a series of fractional components with remote sensing provides a new way to understand these changing ecosystems. Nine rangeland ecosystem components, including percent shrub, sagebrush (Artemisia), big sagebrush, herbaceous, annual herbaceous, litter, and bare ground cover, along with sagebrush and shrub... Rigge, Matthew B.; Homer, Collin G.; Cleeves, Lauren; Meyer, Debra K.; Bunde, Brett; Shi, Hua; Xian, George Z.; Bobo, Matthew R Attribution: , Earth Resources Observation and Science Center Year Published: 2020 Evaluation of hydrologic impact of an irrigation curtailment program in the Upper Klamath Lake Basin using Landsat satellite data Upper Klamath Lake (UKL) is the source of the Klamath river that flows through southern Oregon and northern California. The UKL basin is home to two endangered species and provides water for 81,000+ ha (200,000+ acres) of irrigation on the United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) Klamath Project located downstream of the UKL basin. Irrigated... Velpuri, Naga Manohar ; Senay, Gabriel; Schauer, Matthew ; Garcia, C. Amanda; Singh, Ramesh ; Friedrichs, MacKenzie; Bohms, Stefanie; Haynes, Jonathan V.; Conlon, Terrence D. Attribution: , Oregon Water Science Center , Water Resources , Earth Resources Observation and Science Center Year Published: 2019 Earth as art 6 Earth has a stunning variety of landscapes. The colors, patterns, textures, and shapes all make for intriguing artwork as seen from the perspective of space.Earth As Art shows not only what satellites capture in the visible wavelengths of light you and I can see, but also what’s hiding in the invisible wavelengths that Landsat sensors can detect... Attribution: , Earth Resources Observation and Science Center View Citation U.S. Geological Survey, 2019, Earth as art 6—A unique and unconventional perspective of the Earth’s geographic attributes: U.S. Geological Survey General Information Product 194, 42 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/gip194. 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