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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Feb 2028
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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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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 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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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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OpenSearch Datasets
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Selected IDN OpenSearch Results (search all 127 ) ABoVE: Alder Shrub Cover and Soil Properties, Alaska, 2019, V2 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
Selected FedEO OpenSearch Results (view all 17 results: browser , table ) Landsat8 collection (SENTINEL Hub) Landsat 8 Collection 2 European Coverage ESA Lakes Climate Change Initiative (Lakes_cci): Lake products, Version 2.1 ESA Lakes Climate Change Initiative (Lakes_cci): Lake products, Version 1.1 CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: The Landsat land surface temperature products are being developed in response ... Landsat Collection 2 - Level-2 - Data Cube - LCF 16 days Landsat Image Mosaic of Brazilian Amazon Biome - 3 Months Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) Glacier database (glims.org), Randolph Glacier Inven... Landsat Level2A images (Theia) Landsat-8 Collection (EO IPT.PL)
Want to explore more? Read about FedEO by ESA or click here to search FedEO or CMR OpenSearch by NASA
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