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June 15-17, 2010 – Landsat Science Team Meeting was held June 15-17, 2010, in Boise, Idaho. Current and future mission status reports were presented, and Landsat Science Team members provided updates regarding their areas of research. Read More...

January 19-21, 2010 - Landsat Science Team Meeting #7 was held January 19-21, 2010, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Status reports and perspectives on current and future missions were presented, and a number of Landsat Science Team members provided updates to their areas of research. Read More...


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May 20, 2010 - Calibration Update to TM Thermal Band
Effective April 1, 2010, the calibration of the TM thermal band was updated to correct for a lifetime 5.2% gain error and to temporally extend the offset correction implemented in 2007. Read More...

May 7, 2010 - New Landsat 5 Scheduler
A new Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper (TM) acquisition scheduler was released on May 6, 2010. Similar to that employed by Landsat 7 operations, the new scheduler incorporates daily global cloud forecasts along with seasonal cloud climatology to increase the relative likelihood of acquiring usable imagery. This system has the goal of extending the Landsat 5 Mission while targeting scene opportunities most likely to yield high quality imagery for the global archive.


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