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USGS | 2012
The Department of Interior (DOI) and its Bureaus are long-time users and contributors to the NAIP, which produces a 1-m resolution orthoimagery product. Under an agreement with the U.S. Department of…
USGS | 2012
The Landsat Program is a joint effort of the USGS and NASA to gather Earth resource data using a series of land-observing satellites. Whereas NASA’s role is the development and launch of Earth-…
USGS | 2012
The USGS is collaborating with the USDA Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC) to conduct field-scale research investigating fundamental imagery calibration issues related to Landsat surface…
USGS | 2012
USGS, in cooperation with NASA, established a new Landsat Science Team in late fiscal year 2012. Twenty-one science and engineering teams will serve from 2012 to 2017 and provide technical and…
USGS | 2012
The Global Fiducials Program is a collaborative effort between Federal civilian agencies, academia, and the intelligence community to build and maintain a long-term record of data to support member…
USGS | 2012
The USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Science Processing Architecture (ESPA) has been developed as the computing infrastructure to generate climate data record (CDR) and essential…
USGS | 2012
To assess the uses and value of Landsat imagery, social scientists at the USGS Policy Analysis and Science Assistance Branch (PASA) of the Fort Collins Science Center are conducting a long-term study…
USGS | 2012
After a major disaster, a satellite image or a collection of aerial photography is frequently the fastest, most effective way to determine the scope and severity of the event. With that goal, the…
USGS | 2012
In 1999, an international consortium of space agencies created a mechanism to provide information in support of disaster relief worldwide. This group, the “International Charter for Space and Major…
USGS | 2012
The goal of the project is to establish, coordinate, and support a monitoring network to collect and maintain a daily stream of plant phenology information. These data will support research,…
USGS | 2012
Does remote sensing information from Landsat and similar moderate resolution Earth-observing satellites provide measurable economic benefits to society? For a case study of 35 counties in…
USGS | 2012
The USGS Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Project Office is conducting operational test and evaluation (OT&E) of UAS technology. UAS operations are designed to support a wide range of mandated…