USGS/BLM Film Scanning Collaboration
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources and Observation Science (EROS) Center has been transcribing film from analog media to digital form since the photo processing lab was closed in 2004. In 2015, EROS offered this service to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and began scanning their collection of film records. Seven years later, the scanning of all 4,400 rolls of film contained in the BLM archive is nearly complete. Digitization is achieved using the EROS high-resolution photogrammetric scanning systems.