AS5663 — EDCNET

AS5663 announces 9 IPv4 prefixes covering 58,112 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

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 152.61.0.0 space.
• 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.

This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.

Announced prefixes

• 137.227.144.0/22
• 152.61.0.0/17
• 152.61.128.0/22
• 152.61.133.0/24
• 152.61.134.0/23
• 152.61.136.0/21
• 152.61.144.0/20
• 152.61.160.0/19
• 152.61.192.0/19

Upstream networks

• AS22284 U.S. Department of the Interior
• AS1842 Department of Interior United States Geological Survey

Adjacent networks

• AS22284 U.S. Department of the Interior
• AS1842 Department of Interior United States Geological Survey