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     Landscape Change...


The Eastern Geographic Science Center (EGSC) informs decision-makers of the potential environmental and societal consequences of landscape change.

EGSC scientists develop and apply the data, process understanding, and Web-based tools necessary to holistically evaluate and forecast impacts that land use and land cover changes have on individual, societal, and environmental health and well-being.

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With a focus east of the Mississippi River, our research staff applies expertise in geography, remote sensing, geology, biology, and computer science to understand:

   bullet Status and Trends in Land Cover Change and Understanding the Causes and Consequences
   bullet Land Cover Dynamics and Environmental Processes, and
   bullet Partner-driven Decision Support Tools for Investigating Land Cover Change and Hazards-related Risk and Vulnerabilities.

Recent accomplishments and events for the EGSC Team


Eastern Geographic Science Center assists the USGS Volcano Disaster Assistance Program: Ron Keeler of the Eastern Geographic Science Center is assisting John Pallister of the Volcano Disaster Assistance Program by providing information derived from satellite data regarding the current eruption at Nevado del Huila, Colombia. More....

Crowdsourcing The National Map: Barbara Poore, Eastern Geographic Science Center, helped organize a workshop on volunteered geographic information January 12-13, 2010, in Herndon, Virginia. This workshop explored how citizen mapmakers might contribute to The National Map, the USGS' source for topographic information for the nation. More....

Also, please see EGSC's publications.

Detecting Evidence of Climate Change in the Forests of the Eastern United States


photos showing one area of the Shenandoah that change every 30 minutes taken with the project's webcam.Can evidence of climate change impacts on vegetation phenology be found in moderate-resolution satellite imagery? More....

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