Landsat Missions
A key objective of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission is to provide high-quality data products that maintain consistency with the current standard Landsat products. Soon after the 2011 launch, approximately 400 scenes will be acquired each day. Scenes meeting acceptable cloud cover and scene quality criteria will be processed as terrain corrected and made available online at no charge. The planned specifications of the standard data products are shown below.
| Characteristic | Specification |
|---|---|
| Pixel Size | 30 meters multispectral, 15 meters panchromatic |
| Product Type | Level 1T -Terrain Corrected |
| Data Format | GeoTIFF |
| Map Projection | UTM, Polar Stereographic for Antarctica |
| Datum | WGS84 |
| Orientation | North Up (MAP) |
| Resampling | Cubic Convolution (CC) |
| Accuracy | ~12 meters 90 percent (circular error) global |
| Media Type | Web-enabled, no charge electronic distribution |
More details on LDCM can be found on the LDCM Factsheet - .pdf (1.13 MB).
U.S. Department of the Interior |
U.S. Geological Survey
URL: http://landsat.usgs.gov
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Page Last Modified: May 15, 2008
