NASA announces Landsat 8 data available for download

31 May 2013 Geoff Zeiss

NASA has announced that the Landsat Data Continuity Mission’s on-orbit checkout is complete, and it has been renamed Landsat 8 with the hand-off of operations to the USGS!

Starting at 1 pm CT on May 30 data collected by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) and the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) on the satellite is available for download from EarthExplorer and the LandsatLook Viewer. Data is available on GloVis since 2 pm CT

The satellite orbits the Earth every 99 minutes.   Landsat 8 images the entire Earth every 16 days in the same orbit used by Landsat 5. The data is available within 12 hours of reception.

OLI and TIRS data from Landsat 8 is processed to be consistent with the already archived Landsat 1 through 7 data products.   The OLI sensor includes refined heritage bands, along with two new band files, and a new Quality Assurance band file. The TIRS sensor provides two thermal bands. Band names, wavelengths and resolution for each sensor are listed.

A comparison of Landsat 8 and Landsat 7 band file combinations and wavelength values is available.

Resolution:

OLI multispectral bands 1-7,9: 30-meters
OLI panchromatic band 8: 15-meters
TIRS bands 10-11: collected at 100 meters but resampled
to 30 meters to match OLI multispectral bands

Format:          

GeoTIFF data format

Geoff Zeiss

Geoff Zeiss

Geoff Zeiss has more than 20 years experience in the geospatial software industry and 15 years experience developing enterprise geospatial solutions for the utilities, communications, and public works industries. His particular interests include the convergence of BIM, CAD, geospatial, and 3D. In recognition of his efforts to evangelize geospatial in vertical industries such as utilities and construction, Geoff received the Geospatial Ambassador Award at Geospatial World Forum 2014. Currently Geoff is Principal at Between the Poles, a thought leadership consulting firm. From 2001 to 2012 Geoff was Director of Utility Industry Program at Autodesk Inc, where he was responsible for thought leadership for the utility industry program. From 1999 to 2001 he was Director of Enterprise Software Development at Autodesk. He received one of ten annual global technology awards in 2004 from Oracle Corporation for technical innovation and leadership in the use of Oracle. Prior to Autodesk Geoff was Director of Product Development at VISION* Solutions. VISION* Solutions is credited with pioneering relational spatial data management, CAD/GIS integration, and long transactions (data versioning) in the utility, communications, and public works industries. Geoff is a frequent speaker at geospatial and utility events around the world including Geospatial World Forum, Where 2.0, MundoGeo Connect (Brazil), Middle East Spatial Geospatial Forum, India Geospatial Forum, Location Intelligence, Asia Geospatial Forum, and GITA events in US, Japan and Australia. Geoff received Speaker Excellence Awards at GITA 2007-2009.

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