The Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) was added to the Landsat-8 payload to continue thermal imaging and to support emerging applications such as evapotranspiration rate measurements for water management.

TIRS was built by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and it has a three-year design life.

The 100 m TIRS data is registered to the OLI data to create radiometrically, geometrically, and terrain-corrected 12-bit Landsat-8 data products.

Learn more about the Thermal Infra-Red Sensor instrument:

• TIRS on the eoPortal*
• TIRS on the USGS website*
• CEOS database entry for TIRS*

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