C2 ARD are tiled, georegistered, top of atmosphere, and atmospherically corrected products defined in a common projection that make the Landsat archive more accessible, easier to analyze, and reduce the amount of time users spend on data processing for time-series analysis.\u00a0 Landsat C2 Level-1 data that are processed into Albers-projected Level-2 Surface Reflectance and Surface Temperature products serve as inputs for generating Landsat C2 ARD, for the conterminous United States, Alaska, and Hawaii.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n During Landsat C2 Level-1 processing in 2020, several data improvements were made, including: \u00a0<\/p>\n Better geometric accuracy that allows more Tier 1 scenes. In turn, the number of C2 U.S. ARD tiles has increased \u00a0 Like C2 Level-1 and Level-2 data products, C2 ARD are\u00a0stored in Cloud Optimized Georeferenced Tagged Image File Format (COG) and distributed from a commercial cloud environment, via EarthExplorer<\/a>.\u00a0Landsat Collection 2 ARD can also be accessed from the\u00a0Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform.\u00a0\u00a0Visit the\u00a0Landsat Commercial Cloud Data Access<\/a>\u00a0page for more information.<\/p>\n Visit Landsat C2 U.S. ARD<\/a> to learn more about product contents and data access. C2 ARD tile grid maps and shapefiles can be found on this page as well.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Return to all Landsat Headlines<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n USGS News: Landsat MissionsRead More<\/a> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" C2 ARD are tiled, georegistered, top of atmosphere, and atmospherically corrected products defined in a common projection that make the Landsat archive more accessible, easier to analyze, and reduce the amount of time users spend on data processing for time-series analysis.\u00a0 Landsat C2 Level-1 data that are processed into Albers-projected Level-2 Surface Reflectance and Surface…
\nThe Alaska ARD tile grid<\/a> has been modified for C2, as it now includes the Aleutian Islands. (No changes have been made to the CONUS and Hawaii tile grids)<\/p>\n
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