Landsat 8

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Geological Survey
February, 2013 to May, 2023

The Landsat spacecraft series of NASA represents the longest continuous Earth imaging program in history, starting with the launch of Landsat-1 in 1972 through Landsat-7 with the ETM+ imager (launch April 15, 1999). With the evolution of the program has come an increased emphasis on the scientific utility of the data accompanied by more stringent requirements for instrument and data characterization, calibration and validation. This trend continues with LDCM, the next mission in the Landsat sequence. The enhancements of the Landsat-7 system, e.g., more on-board calibration hardware and an image assessment system and personnel, have been retained and improved, where required, for LDCM. Aspects of the calibration requirements are spread throughout the mission, including the instrument and its characterization, the spacecraft, operations and the ground system.

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http://landsat.usgs.gov/, http://ldcm.nasa.gov/

Instrument	Datasets
Operational Land Imager	0
Thermal Infrared Sensor	0

Also known as :

• missionID 547 (ceos lexicon)
• Mission Landsat 8 (ceos lexicon)
• resource Landsat_8 (dbpedia lexicon)