CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- Landsat 8
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Full Name
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Landsat 8
aka L8, Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM), Landsat-8
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Status
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Operational (extended)
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Mission Agencies
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USGS , NASA
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Launch Date
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11 Feb 2013
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Mission Links
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mission site | mission site | data access portal | data access portal
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EOL Date
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May 2023
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EO Portal Info
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NORAD Catalog #
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39084 (TLE)
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International Designator
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2013-008A
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Orbit Type
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Sun-synchronous
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Orbit Period
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98.9 minutes
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Orbit Sense
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Descending
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Orbit Inclination
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98.2 deg
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Orbit Altitude
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705 km
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Orbit Longitude
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Orbit LST
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10:11
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Repeat Cycle
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16 days
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Objectives and Applications
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5-year mission design life with at least 10 years of consumables. Earth resources, land surface, environmental monitoring, agriculture and forestry, disaster monitoring and assessment, ice and snow cover.
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Mission Measurements
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| Category | Parameter | Instrument(s) |
| Atmosphere | Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature | OLI, TIRS |
| Radiation budget | OLI, TIRS |
| Land | Albedo and reflectance | OLI, TIRS |
| Vegetation | OLI, TIRS |
| Surface temperature (land) | OLI, TIRS |
| Multi-purpose imagery (land) | OLI, TIRS |
| Inland Waters | OLI, TIRS |
| Ocean | Ocean colour/biology | OLI |
| Ocean topography/currents | OLI |
| Multi-purpose imagery (ocean) | OLI |
| Snow & Ice | Snow cover, edge and depth | OLI, TIRS |
| Sea ice cover, edge and thickness | OLI, TIRS |
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Mission Instruments
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Featured Datasets
More Datasets
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Collection 2
Dec-2020 | CARD4L Landsat Collection 2 marks the second major reprocessing effort on the Landsat archive by the USGS that results in several data product improvements that harness recent advancements in data processing, algorithm development, and data access and distribution capabilities. Read more 
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GA Landsat Collection 3
Jul-2019
| The United States Geological Survey's (USGS) Landsat satellite program has been capturing images of the Australian continent for more than thirty years. DEA takes the hundreds of thousands of images, prepares them for Australian conditions, and makes adjustments to correct inconsistencies caused by changes in the atmosphere each time an image is captured (i.e. absence or presence of cloud cover), so that the data can be analysed to provide information about our changing continent. This corrected data set is known as Landsat Surface Reflectance, and it forms the basis for many of the other information products produced by DEA. Products derived from the surface reflectance collection include Fractional Cover, Water Observations from Space, the Intertidal Extents Model, and High and Low Tide Composites. Read more
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GFOI Coverage Reports
Jul-2017 | The CEOS Space Data Coordination group (SDCG) coordinates space satellite data for CEOS initiatives, such as the Global Forest Observation Initiative (GFOI). In support of the SDCG, the CEOS Systems Engineering Office (SEO) produces historical coverage analyses utilizing the data archives for the Landsat, Sentinel-1, and Sentinel-2 missions. Currently, the SEO produces an individual report for more than 70 GFOI countries (listed below alphabetically).
Read more
Groups: LSI-VC F&B SG
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Landsat Collection 1
Sep-2016 | Landsat Collection 1 consists of Level-1 data products generated from Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI)/Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS), Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+), Landsat 4-5 Thematic Mapper (TM)*, and Landsat 1-5 Multispectral Scanner (MSS) instruments.
Read more
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Landsat 8 Collection 2 European Coverage
Jan-2013
| The Operational Land Imager (OLI) and the Thermal Infrared Scanner (TIRS) are
the two instruments carried on board Landsat-8. The OLI provides two new spectral bands in respect to the Landsat-7 ETM+
instrument, one tailored especially for detecting cirrus clouds and the other for
coastal zone observations, and the TIRS collects data for two more narrow
thermal bands. The nominal schedules expect the collection of at least 740 OLI
and TIRS scenes per day, where each scene is a digital image covering a 185 ×
180 km surface area. The collection composed of of Level 1 and Level 2 products from Collection 2, and access is provided through the ESA TPM scheme. Read more
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Landsat 8 OLI-TIRS European Coverage
Jan-2013
| The Operational Land Imager (OLI) and the Thermal Infrared Scanner (TIRS) are
the two instruments carried on board Landsat-8. The OLI provides two new spectral bands in respect to the Landsat-7 ETM+
instrument, one tailored especially for detecting cirrus clouds and the other for
coastal zone observations, and the TIRS collects data for two more narrow
thermal bands. The nominal schedules expect the collection of at least 740 OLI
and TIRS scenes per day, where each scene is a digital image covering a 185 ×
180 km surface area. The collection composed of Level 1 products from Collection 1, from the beginning of the
mission up to 31/12/2021, and access is provided through the ESA TPM scheme. Read more
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OpenSearch Datasets
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Selected IDN OpenSearch Results (search all 111 )
ABoVE: Burn Severity of Soil Organic Matter, Northwest Territories, Canada, 2014-2015
ABoVE: Distribution Maps of Wildland Fire Fuel Components across Alaskan Tundra, 2015
ABoVE: Lake Growing Season Green Surface Reflectance Trends, AK and Canada, 1984-2019
ABoVE: Landsat Tundra Greenness and Summer Air Temperatures, Arctic Tundra, 1985-2016
ABoVE: Landsat Vegetation Greenness Trends, Boreal Forest Biome, 1985-2019
ABoVE: Landsat-derived Burn Scar dNBR across Alaska and Canada, 1985-2015
ABoVE: River Ice Breakup and Freeze-up Stages, Yukon River Basin, Alaska, 1972-2016
ABoVE: Riverbank Erosion and Vegetation Changes, Yukon River Basin, Alaska, 1984-2017
ABoVE: Tree Canopy Cover and Stand Age from Landsat, Boreal Forest Biome, 1984-2020
ABoVE: Tundra Plant Functional Type Continuous-Cover, North Slope, Alaska, 2010-2015
Want to explore more? Try FedEO by ESA or CMR OpenSearch by NASA
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