President’s 2016 Budget Proposes $1.2 Billion for USGS
The U.S. president’s fiscal year 2016 budget request for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is $1.2 billion, an increase of nearly $150 million above the FY 2015 enacted level. According to a statement...
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USGS National Map Corps Hits Crowdsourcing Milestone
The U.S. Geological Survey citizen science project, The National Map Corps, has realized remarkable response. In less than two years, the volunteer-based project has harvested more than 100,000...
View ArticleFugro Upgrades EZ-FRISK Seismic Hazard Analysis Software
Fugro has released an upgrade to its EZ-FRISK package — seismic hazard analysis software used by consultants and academics. The new upgrade includes the Next Generation West 2 ground motion prediction...
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Tischler Named Director of National Geospatial Program
Michael Tischler, new director of the USGS National Geospatial Program. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has selected Michael Tischler to be the director of the National Geospatial Program...
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USGS Volunteers Help with Accurate Mapping
Screenshot of the Tennessee Law Enforcement Facility Mapping Challenge showing the more than 440 edited points (green dots). At this scale, many dots contain more than one edited or verified structure....
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NASA, USGS Begin Work on Landsat 9 for Land Imaging
NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey have started work on Landsat 9, an upgraded rebuild of the Landsat 8 spacecraft launched in 2013, to extend the Landsat program’s decades-long observations of...
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USGS Holds Stakeholder Workshops for 3D Topo Data
This map depicts the proposed body of work for 3DEP in Fiscal Year 2015. The BAA awards will add more than 95,000 square miles of 3DEP quality LiDAR data to the national database. The U.S. Geological...
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USGS Offers New Series of California Offshore Maps
Map of sediment thickness in state waters offshore of San Francisco. About 21,000 years ago, sea level in this area was about 125 m lower and the shelf offshore San Francisco was an emergent land...
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USGS Tests QuakeAlert App with 60-Second Warning
Sixty seconds may not sound like much, but if given advance warning of an earthquake, people could take cover, trains could stop, and oil rigs could be shut down before the shaking hits. The earthquake...
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USGS Provides Higher Level Landsat Data
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has begun production of higher level (more highly processed) Landsat data products to help advance land surface change studies. One such product is Landsat...
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USGS Hosts National Maps Webinar for Web and Mobile
Screenshot of a mobile mapping service integrating USGS topographic data; hiking and biking trails south of Golden, Colo. Imagery with road and contour data overlaid via AlpineQuest. Are you a...
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Highest Peak in North America to be Surveyed
At 20, 320 feet, Mount McKinley is North America’s highest peak. (Photo courtesy of Todd Paris, UAF). A new GPS survey of Mount McKinley, the highest point in North America, will update the commonly...
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European Space Agency Launches Land Observing Satellite
The European Space Agency (ESA) on June 23 successfully launched its Sentinel-2A satellite, the second satellite to be launched in Europe’s Copernicus environment monitoring program. Above is a video...
View ArticleTrack Wildfires Across Western U.S. with Interactive Maps
Esri has published an interactive Wildfire Public Information Map and a 2015 California Wildfire Activity Map. Wildfire Public Information Map The Wildfire Public Information Map provides continuously...
View ArticleUSGS Selects Woolpert to Evaluate Lidar for 3DEP
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has contracted with Woolpert to evaluate new lidar (light detection and ranging) technologies to assess the suitability to support the 3D Elevation Program (3DEP)....
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National Map Corps Updates Volunteer Badges
The National Map Corps has updated the recognition badges that it awards for participation in its crowdsourcing mapping project. Volunteer “citizen scientists” who collect manmade structure data such...
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USGS Releases Geo-Referenced Field Photos to Public
The U.S. Geological Survey has made part of a huge national repository of geographically referenced USGS field photographs publicly available. USGS geographers developed a mapping portal called the...
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USGS completes triennial update to US Topo maps
This graphic represents the planned US Topo map production schedule for the next three- year revision cycle. The US Topo project repackages data from national GIS (geographic Information system)...
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Updated US Topo maps for Wisconsin add Census Bureau road data
Updated 2015 version of the Madison West US Topo quadrangle with orthoimage turned on. (1:24,000 scale. (1:24,000 scale). The USGS US Topo map program has entered its third, three-year cycle of...
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USGS publishes digital geologic map of Alaska
The Alaska Geologic Map shows the generalized geology of the state, each color representing a different type or age of rock. (Image: USGS) A new digital geologic map of Alaska is being released today,...
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