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Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science
The Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) is a United States Geological Survey data management, systems development, and research field center. It serves as the national archive of remotely sensed images of the Earth's land surface acquired by civilian satellites and aircraft. EROS is located northeast of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, between Baltic and Garretson.
In the 1960s the federal government decided it needed a single facility to handle and distribute Landsat satellite data. A study determined that
Philippine Earth Data Resources Observation Center
The Philippine Earth Data Resources Observation Center, also known as the PEDRO Center is an organization tasked in operating satellite ground stations.
It is part of the Philippine Scientific Earth Observation Micro-satellite (Phil-Microsat) program by the Department of Science and Technology, which includes the deployment of the Diwata-1 and Diwata-2 microsatellites. It also receives information from commercial satellites.
History.
The Philippine Earth Data Resources Observation (PEDRO) Center project was implemented by the Advanced Science and Technology