The combination of remote sensing, cloud data storage, and fast data processing has revolutionized our ability to monitor and understand earth surface processes. This revolution has transformed environmental science, including the realm of hydrology. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the lead federal government agency for monitoring of US water resources, has embraced these revolutionary technologies and is developing, producing, and delivering a variety of remotely sensed hydrologic data. This presentation will describe USGS remote sensing hydrologic data and R&D efforts, and will provide many secret passwords to access the data. (Just kidding, they are all public URLs)

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Susan L. Ustin and Elizabeth McPhee Middleton, Review of earth observation sensors/satellites (EOS): Current and Near-Term Earth-Observing Environmental Satellites, Their Missions, Characteristics, Instruments, and Applications, 2024, Sensors 24(11), 3488; https://doi.org/10.3390/s24113488