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News - Thematic area articles
Cloud-free collections key for land monitoring
Satellite imagery is a crucially important tool for monitoring the land, but cloud cover can often block parts of Earth’s surface from view, limiting subsequent analyses.
Data - EO Sign In Authentication (Open)
Landsat RBV
This dataset contains Landsat 3 Return Beam Vidicon (RBV) products, acquired by ESA by the Fucino ground station over its visibility mask. The data (673 scenes) are the result of the digitalization of the original 70 millimetre (mm) black and white film rolls. The RBV instrument was mounted on board the Landsat 1 to 3 satellites between 1972 and 1983, with 80 metre resolution. Three independent co-aligned television cameras, one for each spectral band (band 1: blue-green, band 2: yellow-red, band 3: NIR), constituted this instrument. The RBV system was redesigned for Landsat 3 to use two cameras operating in one broad spectral band (green to near-infrared; 0.505–0.750 µm), mounted side-by-side, with panchromatic spectral response and higher spatial resolution than on Landsat 1 and Landsat 2. Each of the cameras produced a swath of about 90 km (for a total swath of 180 km), with a spatial resolution of 40 m.
Document - Technical Note
Landsat 7 ETM Image Assessment System Radiometric Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document
Document - Technical Note
Landsat 7 ETM Image Assessment System Geometric Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document
News - Success Stories
New life for Landsat historical data
45 years of data, more than 1.8 million images, these are the numbers of an adventure started 48 years ago with the launch of the first Landsat satellite.
Mission - Heritage Missions
Landsat Series
The Landsat Series is the world's longest running system of satellites for moderate-resolution optical remote sensing for land, coastal areas and shallow waters.
Document - Technical Note
Landsat MSS State Vector Generation
Technical note describing the validation activities conducted to assess the geolocation accuracy and internal image geometry of the Landsat MSS products.
Document - Technical Note
Landsat Level 1 GTC MSS Geometric Validation
Technical Note detailing the results of the geometric validation of the ESA Landsat MSS products.
Document - Technical Note
ngEO Browse Report File Generic Interface (BRGICD)
Statistical description of the ngEO Generic Browse Report File.
Document - Technical Note
On-orbit Attitude Control and Determination System (ACDS) Performance of the Landsat 7 Spacecraft
Document - Technical Note
Landsat 4-5 TM Image Assessment System Radiometric Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document
Document - Technical Note
Landsat 1-5 MSS Image Assessment System Radiometric Algorithm Description Document
Mission - Third Party Missions
Landsat-8
Landsat-8 is an Earth-imaging satellite from USGS and NASA which launched in 2013. The Landsat programme provides a global archive of satellite imagery.
Document - Algorithms Theoretical Baseline Document
Landsat-TM-Data-Format-Control-Book-DFCB.pdf
This document describes the algorithms, radiometric and geometric processing of the European Space Agency (ESA) Landsat Multispectral Scanner (MSS), Thematic Mapper (TM) and Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) products. It is intended to point towards useful resources for more information rather than provide full descriptions of the specific algorithms used during the processing.