Autonomous system
AS5663 EDCNET
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
USGS EROS Center
government research legacy
EDCNET is the network of the U.S. Geological Survey's EROS Center (Earth
Resources Observation and Science), the USGS field centre near Sioux Falls,
South Dakota. The handle preserves the site's older name, the EROS Data Center.
What it's used for
- Serving EROS's land-imaging mission: the national archive of civilian satellite and aerial imagery of the Earth's land surface, including the Landsat record, plus the systems that process and distribute it.
Notable
- A U.S. federal government network, registered to the Department of the Interior / USGS, announcing the legacy
152.61.0.0space. - The traffic profile is unusual for a government AS: EROS distributes very large volumes of imagery to researchers worldwide, so this is a data-archive network more than an office one.
Interesting
- EROS holds one of the largest civilian collections of Earth imagery anywhere, built up over decades — the reason a single USGS field centre warranted its own ASN back in 1995.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 32 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS5663- Registry name
- EDCNET
- Registrant
- Department of Interior United States Geological Survey
- Abuse contact
- cwise@usgs.gov
- Registered
- 1995-08-09
- Last changed
- 2024-10-04
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere