Three newly awarded satellite imaging contracts will expand access to commercial satellite data for use in environmental monitoring, land management, energy development, natural hazards mitigation, and other purposes.
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) contracts awarded this month will provide electronic accessibility to federal agencies and groups with data licensing agreements and provide a central mechanism to meet land imaging requirements in a coordinated, efficient way.
Groups also will benefit from recently announced changes to the USGS Landsat imagery distribution, which make USGS Landsat data available for free via the Web. The move is among the latest USGS effort to improve access to national and global land imaging products.
More information on USGS Land Remote Sensing can be found at http://remotesensing.usgs.gov.