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Landsat 8

Landsat 8 launched on February 11, 2013, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, on an Atlas-V 401 rocket, with the extended payload fairing
 (EPF) from United Launch Alliance, LLC. The Landsat 8 satellite payload consists of two science instruments—the Operational Land Imager (OLI) and the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS). These two sensors provide seasonal coverage of the global landmass at a spatial resolution of 30 meters (visible, NIR, SWIR); 100 meters (thermal); and 15 meters (panchromatic).
Landsat 8 was developed as a collaboration between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). NASA led the design, construction, launch, and on-orbit calibration phases, during which time the satellite was called the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM). On May 30, 2013, USGS took over routine operations and the satellite became Landsat 8. USGS leads post-launch calibration activities, satellite operations, data product generation, and data archiving at the Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) center.
Landsat 8 instruments represent an evolutionary advance in technology. OLI improves on past Landsat sensors using a technical approach demonstrated by a sensor flown on NASA’s experimental EO-1 satellite. OLI is a push-broom sensor with a four-mirror telescope and 12-bit quantization. OLI collects data for visible, near infrared, and short wave infrared spectral bands as well as a panchromatic band. It has a five-year design life. OLI provides two new spectral bands, one tailored especially for detecting cirrus clouds and the other for coastal zone observations.
TIRS collects data for two more narrow spectral bands in the thermal region formerly covered by one wide spectral band on Landsats 4–7. The 100 m TIRS data will be registered to the OLI data to create radiometrically, geometrically, and terrain-corrected 12-bit data products.

Instruments:
Operational Land Imager (OLI)
Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS)

11 Feb 2013
5years
Polar
Sun synchronous
99 minutes
Operational Land Imager
Thermal Infrared Sensor
NASA
USGS
Providing repetitive acquisition of high resolution multispectral data of the Earth’s surface on a global basis used in agriculture, education, business, science, and government
Sequía
Desborde de lago glaciar
Floración de Algas Nocivas
Deslizamiento de tierra
Terremoto
Temperature extrema
Inundación
Incendio
Desplazamiento de masas
Contaminación
Tsunami
Erupción volcánica
No
Information about Landsat 8 on NASA web page

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