Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-2014
Description
Landsat 8, a NASA and USGS collaboration, acquires global moderate-resolution measurements of the Earth's terrestrial and polar regions in the visible, near-infrared, short wave, and thermal infrared. Landsat 8 extends the remarkable 40 year Landsat record and has enhanced capabilities including new spectral bands in the blue and cirrus cloud-detection portion of the spectrum, twothermal bands, improved sensor signal-to-noise performance and associated improvements in radiometric resolution, and an improved duty cycle that allows collection of a significantly greater number of images per day. This paper introduces the current (2012–2017) Landsat Science Team's efforts to establish an initial understanding of Landsat 8 capabilities and the steps ahead in support of priorities identified by the team. Preliminary evaluation of Landsat 8 capabilities and identification of new science and applications opportunities are described with respect to calibration and radiometric characterization; surface reflectance; surface albedo; surface temperature, evapotranspiration and drought; agriculture; land cover, condition, disturbance and change; fresh and coastalwater; and snowand ice. Insights into the development of derived ‘higher-level’ Landsat products are provided in recognition of the growing need for consistently processed, moderate spatial resolution, large area, long-term terrestrial data records for resource management and for climate and global change studies. The paper concludes with future prospects, emphasizing the opportunities for land imaging constellations by combining Landsat data with data collected from other international sensing systems, and consideration of successor Landsat mission requirements.
Publication Title
Remote Sensing of Environment
Volume
145
First Page
154
Last Page
172
DOI of Published Version
10.1016/j.rse.2014.02.001
Pages
19
Language
en
Publisher
Elsevier
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Roy, David P.; Wulder, M. A.; Loveland, T. R.; Woodcock, C. E.; Allen, R. G.; Anderson, M. C.; Helder, D.; Irons, J. R.; Johnson, D. M.; Kennedy, R.; Scambos, T. A.; Schaaf, C. B.; Schott, J. R.; Sheng, Y.; Vermote, E. F.; Belward, A. S.; Bindchadler, R.; Cohen, W. B.; Gao, F.; Hipple, J. D.; Hostert, P.; Huntington, J.; Justice, C. O.; Kilic, A.; Kovalskyy, V; Lee, Z. P.; Lymburner, L.; Masek, J. G.; McCorkel, J.; Shuai, Y.; Trezza, R.; Vogelmann, J.; Wynne, R. H.; and Zhu, Z., "Landsat-8: Science and Product Vision for Terrestrial Global Change Research" (2014). GSCE Faculty Publications. 47.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/gsce_pubs/47