USGS Accurately Projects Impacts of Transforming Agricultural Landscapes
When a forest gives way to a potato field, when landscapes once teeming with wheat and barley disappear into seas of switchgrass, there are always implications. Environmental implications. Economic...
View ArticleNew Land Cover Maps Depict 15 Years of Change across America
Today, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) released the latest edition of the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) for the U.S. – the most comprehensive land cover database that the USGS has ever...
View ArticleLand Use Models from EROS Offer Insight, Management Guidance for Delaware...
In the mid-1960s, the city of Philadelphia faced a potential public health crisis.
View ArticleLandsat: Helping Us Help Ourselves for 50 Years
We can’t see them, but they’ve faithfully circled above us for 50 years. From hundreds of miles away, Landsat satellites have revealed details and secrets of the Earth’s land that we miss standing on...
View ArticleEROS 50th History: A Leader in Mapping Land Cover and Change
We become intimately familiar with the land where we live, work and play. The backyard maple where three baby robins left their nest on the fourth branch up this summer. The depression in a farm field...
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