The USGS LRS Program will investigate and evaluate alternative data sources, future satellite missions, and evolving technologies.  This knowledge will influence the formulation of strategies for interagency, commercial, and international cooperation in land remote sensing. 

Goals

• Provide reliable, well-calibrated, before-and-after data records to scientists and land managers for use in detecting and reacting to land-surface or coastal changes.
• Participate in satellite missions of opportunity to capture data for archiving.
• Expand access to remotely sensed data from all sources for use by earth scientists.
• Identify, select, and promote USGS participation in new domestic and international opportunities for obtaining relevant scientific datasets captured by remote sensing satellites (or aircraft).
• Provide useful data or information products to USGS scientists and DOI land managers through the adoption of new remote sensing data sources or advanced technology.

Future Missions

• Landsat Data Continuity Mission

Missions Under Investigation

• U.S. Synthetic Aperture Radar