EROS Data Center

The EROS Data Center is the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science Center near Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the national archive and distribution point for civilian land remote-sensing data. It holds the full Landsat record back to 1972, the longest continuous space-based land-imaging archive, and processes and distributes Landsat, AVHRR, and global elevation and land-cover products. EROS produces the global DEM and land-cover datasets used in coastal and environmental mapping, and operates the Landsat ground system. Its imagery supports shoreline change, coastal land-cover, and inland-water monitoring.