Title
Accessing Free Landsat Data Via the Internet: Africa's Challenge
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-2010
Description
Since January 2008, the US Department of Interior/US Geological Survey has been providing terrain-corrected Landsat data over the Internet for free. This letter reports the size and proportion of the US Landsat archive that is over Africa by each Landsat sensor, discusses the implications of missing data and highlights the current bandwidth constraints on users accessing free Landsat data over the Internet from Africa.
Publication Title
Remote Sensing Letters
Volume
1
Issue
2
First Page
111
Last Page
117
DOI of Published Version
10.1080/01431160903486693
Recommended Citation
David P. Roy , Junchang Ju , Cheikh Mbow , Philip Frost & Tom Loveland (2010) Accessing free Landsat data via the Internet: Africa's challenge, Remote Sensing Letters, 1:2, 111-117, DOI: 10.1080/01431160903486693