Landsat 8 is offered as free, open data, which has led to new innovation in methods to better utilize such data for time series and complex scenes that are sometimes obstructed by clouds or dust.
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This Tools Helps You Figure Out Which Satellite Bands to Use for Remote Sensing
The USGS offers the Landsat Spectral Characteristics Viewer which lets users view how different earth observation satellite instruments can be used for their remote sensing needs.
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What are the Benefits of Landsat’s Current Free and Open Policy?
A group of researchers from different universities and government groups have published a study of how Landsat’s free and open data policy has benefitted users of the programs satellite imagery products.
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“Adopt A Pixel” to Help Landsat Science
Adopt A Pixel program has existed for quite some time – from 2013 – in the form of a web service which allowed users to upload geospatially tagged landscape images to complement the remote sensing collections.
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This New Tool from Sentinel Hub Lets You Create Time-lapse GIFs from Satellite Imagery
The latest upgrade of the EO Browser includes the ability to create an animated GIF from a time series of satellite images. This short tutorial shows you how to create your own time-lapse GIF.
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An Algorithm to More Accurately Classify Land Cover Using Landsat Imagery
Hankui Zhang, from South Dakota State University, has developed a new classification technique that used a large number of images from MODIS, which has 500-meter resolution, and Landsat (30-meter) resolution together.
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The USGS Landsat Analysis Ready Data (ARD) Program
Landsat data is available for download from EarthExplorer for the conterminous United States, Alaska, and Hawaii referenced using the WGS84 datum and provided as GeoTIFF data
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3.1-Trillion Pixel Landsat 8 Mosaic of the World
Descartes Labs has compiled some of the massive amount of data sent back from the satellites orbiting Earth into a 3.1-trillion pixel composite image of Earth’s surface.
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Advances in Landsat Sensors
Since those first images in 1972, multiple Landsat satellites have been launched with the ability to take increasingly detailed pictures of our world.
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Landsat 9 Will Launch in 2020
The Landsat series of satellites has been imaging the Earth’s surface for nearly 50 years, providing vital imagery for a range of purposes from the natural sciences to civil administration and conflict monitoring. NASA and the USGS recently announced that the next iteration of the program, Landsat 9, is due to launch in 2020.