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Landsat Science Team Responsibilities

The overall responsibility of the Landsat Science Team is to offer informed advice and recommendations to the USGS and other partners on topics that will affect the overall success of the LDCM mission. The Team members must be knowledgeable on topics related to more effective use of archived data from Landsat sensors and on the requirements for future sensors needed to address the needs of scientists and other users of Landsat-type data.

Although the panel's role is advisory, each member will be engaged in research that contributes to the LDCM vision. Landsat Science Team members will address many specific objectives:

• Represent the breadth of user perspectives and requirements on issues related to product formats and product generation issues.
• Advocate for user needs.
• Provide science-based feedback on critical design issues, including instrument and data systems.
• Contribute to the specification and design of the data acquisition strategy and data access systems.
• Consider interoperability of Landsat with other systems currently in orbit or planned for launch within the LDCM operational timeframe
• Conduct experiments on science and applications elements of program; each PI should be involved in research that relates to the capabilities of the LDCM mission, including collaboration with archived data.
• Provide insights on long-term issues (e.g., future missions ).
• Participate in representation tasks (e.g., provide data for demos or presentations and represent mission in selected forums including scientific meetings).

A critical Landsat Science Team role is to provide broad perspectives on future strategic topics. The LDCM implementation teams must focus on mission-specific problems and do not have the luxury of investigating emerging science opportunities. It will be the Landsat Science Team's responsibility to identify new science opportunities and develop strategies to pursue them.