 3rd Quarter Newsletter
July to September 2024
 Featured News Headlines
Sept. 19, 2024
After more than 132,000 trips around the Earth and more than 3.3 million satellite images under its belt, the work of the Landsat 7 satellite is complete.
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Sept. 17, 2024
The Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) program maps the burn severity and extent of large fires across the United States from 1984 to the near-present.
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Aug. 26, 2024
The EROS archive is a dynamic, ever-evolving recreation of Earth through imagery—a time-travel treasure scientists wield to forecast fire, watch over water, and predict famine.
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July 30, 2024
The 2023 Earth Observation Assessment (EOA) Report finds Landsat satellites to be a vital source of data to support U.S. agriculture and forest activities in the United States.
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July 9, 2024
Work at the USGS EROS Center is once again prominently featured in the latest annual Department of the Interior (DOI) Remote Sensing Activities report.
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Read all EROS News here.
Eyes on Earth Podcast Episodes
Sept. 30, 2024
Studying forests means studying fire. Utah’s unique landscapes call for a unique dataset for forest management.
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Sept. 12, 2024
A satellite system designed to image land is helping fill in data gaps of underwater topography near shorelines.
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Aug. 21, 2024
Several interns talk about their experience working a summer internship at EROS.
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July 29, 2024
Landsat’s deep archive can reveal where coastlines are changing, even for an entire continent, especially with some clever coding to make it useful to researchers.
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July 15, 2024
Landsat, along with high-resolution data, can be used to model the past and predict the future of changes caused by sea level rise and coastal erosion.
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Listen to other Eyes on Earth podcast episodes here.
Image of the Week
Sept. 11, 2024
The largest dam removal project in the history of the United States reached a major milestone at the end of August 2024 when crews demolished the last of four dams on the Klamath River near the California-Oregon border.
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Aug. 24, 2024
Lightning from a thunderstorm ignited a wildfire in the Sage Creek area of Badlands National Park in South Dakota on August 21, 2024. The fire burned an estimated 2,000 acres before being contained on August 29th.
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Aug. 14, 2024
Mexico is suffering from a severe and prolonged drought that has affected vast swaths of the country. Declining rainfall, coupled with rising temperatures, has led to critically low water levels in reservoirs.
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Explore the Image of the Week gallery here.
 Select Publications and Data Releases
A full list of Publications can be found here.
Important Dates
Other Resources
Quote of the Quarter
"We never stopped learning anything new...and we got to work with people that have knowledge and experience, working on a project with a purpose that people will actually use sometime.”
Carson Price
EROS Summer Intern
Graduate Student, South Dakota Mines
Rapid City, South Dakota
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Lake Urmia, Iran
Sept. 18, 2024
In recent decades, Lake Urmia has experienced dramatic declines in its surface area. Water levels are shrinking due to prolonged drought and over-extraction of water.
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Walgreen Coast, Antarctica
Sept. 13, 2024
Pine Island Bay, on the coast of West Antarctica, recently emerged from its polar night. In early August, the sun began to peek above the horizon for brief periods.
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Landsat 1 Launch Anniversary
July 23, 2024
On July 23, 1972, Landsat 1—originally known as ERTS-1—was launched into space from Vandenberg Space Force Base as the first civilian Earth-observing satellite.
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