Posted by NASA on October 4, 2021 On the cloudy fall morning of Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, the Landsat 9 satellite takes-off from Vandenberg Space Flight Center aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 401 rocket. Kim Shiflett, NASA Thus far during checkout, the key milestones that Landsat 9 has passed include: deployment of the…
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Landsat 9 launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 1:12 p.m. CT Monday, Sept. 27, aboard an Atlas V rocket. (NASA photo) “Landsat 9 is the first mission of the USGS-NASA Sustainable Land Imaging (SLI) partnership, delivering the long-awaited first installment of a multi-decadal commitment to sustaining Landsat continuity for hundreds of thousands of users…
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Return to all Landsat Headlines Chesapeake Bay is shown in this Surface Reflectance composite image, created using data from five Landsat 8 scenes acquired in October and November 2014. USGS Landsat Collection 2 Level-2 surface reflectance and surface temperature data processing requires atmospheric auxiliary data from multiple external sources. The required external data is extracted…
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Landsat 8 image of Phoenix, Arizona, acquired on January 13, 2020 (Path 37 Row 36). This false color image uses the short-wave infrared, near infrared, and red bands (bands 6, 5, 4) to display the data. For more information about Landsat, please visit www.usgs.gov/Landsat To download the data, visit earthexplorer.usgs.gov (Public domain.) Several other countries have joined…
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Now that we have finished part one and understand how the color table provided with each dataset on NEO is applied to each grayscale map, let’s focus on creating custom color palettes that are easy for everyone to see. Color-blindness is a common condition that prohibits some individuals (mostly men) from distinguishing between colors. Especially,…
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A Little Background Information on WMS The Web Mapping Service (WMS) protocol has been around since 1999 and gives users the capability to access georeferenced maps via machine-to-machine contact. This means you can connect to a WMS server from a software of your choice that has WMS capabilities and load all or some of the…
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The encapsulated payload stack with Landsat 9 is transported from the Integrated Processing Facility (IPF) to Space Launch Complex (SLC)-3 for hoisting aboard the Atlas V. Photo by United Launch Alliance. It’s well-known that NASA leads the development and launch of each Landsat satellite, and that USGS builds and manages the ground system and operates…
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Posted by NASA on September 20, 2021 Landsat 9 is scheduled to launch at 2:11 p.m. EDT (11:11 a.m. PDT) Monday, Sept. 27, on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 401 rocket from Space Launch Complex 3 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Live launch coverage will begin at 1:30 p.m. EDT (10:30…
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For Landsat Collection 2, users are encouraged to use the new LandsatLook 2.0 tool. The new tool allows rapid online visualization and access to the Landsat archive. It also enables users to create dynamic custom mosaics using three band combinations, to select spectral indices, and to perform quality assessment band filtering. Landsat Collection 1,…
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Posted by United Launch Alliance on September 16, 2021 The encapsulated payload stack with Landsat 9 is transported from the Integrated Processing Facility (IPF) to Space Launch Complex (SLC)-3 for hoisting aboard the Atlas V. Photo by United Launch Alliance Yesterday, at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., the encapsulated payload stack was transported from the…
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