Autonomous system
AS5663 EDCNET - Department of Interior United States Geological Survey
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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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 32 prefixes · 58.11K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| 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
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 13 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS5663
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 13 of 13 announcements
- Route objects
- 6 naming AS5663
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 453 networks and 1,846 prefixes, as published 2026-11-11. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere