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Landsat 9: status and plans

The Landsat 9 mission, currently under development and proceeding towards a targeted launch in late 2020, will be very similar to the Landsat 8 mission, launched in 2013. Like Landsat 8, Landsat 9 is a joint effort between NASA and USGS with two sensors, the Operational Land Imager 2 (OLI-2), essentially a copy of the OLI on Landsat 8 and the Thermal Infrared Sensor 2 (TIRS-2), very similar to ...

Landsat: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Landsat, first placed in orbit in 1972, established the U.S. as the world leader in land remote sensing. The Landsat system has contributed significantly to the understanding of the Earth’s environment, spawned revolutionary uses of spacebased data by the commercial value-added industry, and encouraged a new generation of commercial satellites that provide regional, high-resolution spatial imag...

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A recent workshop sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Government Information Technology Services Board, and the National Institutes of Health investigated the use of information technology within the federal government. A final report on the findings of that workshop was issued in June. This column reflects a summary of those findings; the full report can be found at www.isi.edu/ ...

The next Landsat satellite: The Landsat Data Continuity Mission

a r t i c l e i n f o Geological Survey (USGS) are developing the successor mission to Landsat 7 that is currently known as the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM). NASA is responsible for building and launching the LDCM satellite observatory. USGS is building the ground system and will assume responsibility for satellite operations and for collecting, archiving, and distributing data follow...

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