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USGS | 2018
The USGS is working with the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) to formulate the future Landsat 10 mission, scheduled to launch in the mid-2020s timeframe as part of the…
USGS | 2018
The USGS National Land Imaging Program (NLIP) has built a long-term capacity to collect and analyze land imaging user requirements to advance the Nation’s operational and science objectives and…
USGS | 2018
The USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center and collaborative agencies in Canada and Mexico have published the first-ever 30-meter resolution consistent land cover product for all…
USGS | 2018
The goal of the USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) is to complete nationwide coverage of lidar data for the conterminous United States, Hawaii, and the U.S. territories and interferometric synthetic…
USGS | 2018
The USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) is managing the acquisition of lidar data across the Nation for high-resolution mapping of the land surface, which is useful for multiple applications. While…
USGS | 2018
The National Land Cover Database (NLCD) provides nationwide data on land cover and land cover change at 30-meter (m) resolution. The current version of NLCD has quantified the U.S. land surface for…
USGS | 2018
The USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center’s National Land Cover Database team, in collaboration with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), is producing the most comprehensive…
USGS | 2018
In late May, the Department of the Interior (DOI) announced that the LANDFIRE (Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools) Program was the recipient of the 2017 DOI "Environmental Dream…
USGS | 2018
The USGS National Land Imaging (NLI) Program is partnering with Federal agencies and the Administration’s Earth Observation Assessment (EOA) to document Earth Observation (EO) user requirements and…
USGS | 2018
The USGS is leading a 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) effort to coordinate with other Federal agency partners and the State of Alaska to acquire new Alaska elevation data statewide using remote sensing…
USGS | 2018
One of the most valuable uses of remote sensing imagery is for mapping and monitoring landscape change, and Landsat-based land cover data such as the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) and the…
USGS | 2018
The USGS project Patterns in the Landscape–Analyses of Cause and Effect (PLACE) is leveraging improvements in image processing capabilities to advance understanding of the driving forces and impacts…