The U.S. Geological Survey and the European Space Agency (ESA) have established an innovative partnership to enable USGS storage and redistribution of Earth observation data acquired by Copernicus program satellites. The ESA-USGS collaboration will serve scientific...
USGS Maps Human-Induced Land Changes
The U.S. Geological Survey released a Landsat-based report and dataset on anthropogenic land-use trends in the United States from 1974-2012. The time periods coincide with U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Census of Agriculture data-collection years.
USGS iCoast Needs You to Help Identify Coastal Changes
By Ethan Alpern, public affairs specialist, U.S. Geological Survey (www.usgs.gov), Reston, Va. Hurricane season started again in June. Do you know what happens to U.S. coasts after these extreme storms? The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) recently launched a...
USGS Historical Maps Go Digital
U.S. Geological Survey has publicly released more than 161,000 digitally scanned historical maps spanning more than 130 years and covering the coterminous lower 48 states.
USGS Extends National Map Users Conference Call for Abstracts
Reston, Va., Feb, 22, 20130—The Call for Abstracts has been extended through March 1, 2013 for The National Map Users Conference and Community for Data Integration Workshop. The joint 2013 The National Map Users Conference and Community for Data Integration Workshop...
USGS Extends Hold on Landsat 5 Operations
Landsat 5 Earth imaging operations have been suspended for an additional 90 days while the U.S. Geological Survey continues to investigate options for resuming service.
USGS Electrical Conductivity Map
After nearly two decades of data collection, the first-ever nationwide survey of Earth’s electrical conductivity is available.
USGS Drones to Monitor Nevada Wildlife
The U.S. Geological Survey's first Nevada drone mission will count sheep and deer within the Desert National Wildlife Refuge north of Las Vegas.
USGS Creates 3-D LiDAR Picture of Isaac Flooding
U.S. Geological Survey scientists are employing terrestrial light detection and ranging technology to map urban flooding caused by Hurricane Isaac.
USGS Counts Cranes With Unmanned Aircraft
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) recently conducted its first unmanned aircraft system (UAS) mission using a Raven RQ-11A small UAS to count sandhill cranes in southern Colorado.
