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USGS | 2016
A USGS research team led by Dennis Dye of the Western Geographic Science Center gave a 3-day technical training course on land remote sensing to staff of the San Carlos Apache Tribe’s Forest…
USGS | 2016
An extensive interagency study documenting the societal benefits of hundreds of Earth observing systems revealed that Landsat is the second most impactful space system, topped only by Global…
USGS | 2016
The USGS initiated the Requirements, Capabilities and Analysis for Earth Observations (RCA-EO) activity in the Land Remote Sensing (LRS) program to provide a structured approach to collect, store,…
USGS | 2016
The USGS and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) are working to develop a suite of shrub and grassland products to study changes in wildlife habitat and landscapes in the western United States. The…
USGS | 2016
The USGS, working in partnership with the Federal interagency Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium, is developing the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) 2016. NLCD serves as the…
USGS | 2016
LANDFIRE, the Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Program, is a vegetation, fire, and fuel characteristic mapping program that provides information for strategic fire and resource…
USGS | 2016
Operating a vehicle that is orbiting the Earth 438 miles overhead at 17,000 miles per hour is not your average day job. Managing the Landsat satellites that are daily imaging the Earth’s…
USGS | 2016
The USGS provides land data products to the public and remote sensing community that support a variety of activities, including natural resource management and inter-disciplinary Earth system science…
USGS | 2016
TopoWx ("Topography Weather," Oyler et al. 2015, Oyler et al. 2016) is a gridded dataset of daily minimum and maximum air temperature for the conterminous U.S. at 800-m resolution. The values…
USGS | 2016
At four decades of uninterrupted data acquisition, Landsat images represent the longest continuous record of Earth’s land surface as seen from space. Scientists and resource managers have long…
USGS | 2016
At first glance, science and art might seem like an unlikely pairing. Yet throughout history, the intersection of these two fields has often resulted in science-based works of sublime beauty.…
USGS | 2016
The Cold War era Keyhole (KH) satellite surveillance system, KH-9 Hexagon, operated from 1971 to 1984, recording imagery at a resolution of 2-4 feet along a swath 425 miles wide. As with the…