Objectives and Applications
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.
Full Name
Landsat 8
aka L8, Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM), Landsat-8
Mission Status
Operational (extended)
Mission Agencies
Launch Date
11 Feb 2013
Mission Links
EOL Date
Feb 2028
Orbit Type
Sun-synchronous
Orbit Period
98.9 minutes
Orbit Sense
Descending
Orbit Inclination
98.2 deg
Orbit Altitude
705 km
Orbit Longitude
Orbit LST
10:11
Repeat Cycle
16 days
NORAD Catalog #
International Designator
OLI - Operational Land Imager |
| TIRS - Thermal Infrared Sensor |
| 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 |
Collection 2
Dec-2020 | CEOS-ARD 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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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