Landsat Missions
A key objective of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) is to provide high-quality data products that maintain consistency with the current standard Landsat products. Soon after 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 following table contains the planned specifications of the standard data products.
| Characteristic | Specification |
|---|---|
| Pixel Size | 30 meters multispectral, 15 meters panchromatic |
| Product Type | Level 1T -Terrain Corrected |
| Data Format | GeoTIFF |
| Map Projection | Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM); Polar Stereographic for Antarctica |
| Datum | World Geodetic System (WGS) 84 |
| Orientation | North Up (MAP) |
| Resampling | Cubic Convolution (CC) |
| Accuracy | ~12 meters 90 percent (circular error) global |
| Media Type | Web-enabled, no charge electronic distribution |
For more details on LDCM, view the LDCM Fact Sheet - .pdf (1.13 MB).
U.S. Department of the Interior |
U.S. Geological Survey
URL: http://landsat.usgs.gov
Page Contact Information: landsat@usgs.gov
Page Last Modified: November 21, 2009
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