Everything on Earth emits thermal infrared radiation. The amount of emitted radiation depends on the object’s temperature. Landsat 9, like Landsat 8, images data for two distinct thermal infrared spectral regions. Thestray lightissues that have plagued Landsat 8 were corrected for Landsat 9. 两...
Launch Date: September 27, 2021 Launch Location: Vandenberg Space Force Base Designed Life: September 27, 2026 Launch Vehicle: United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket Altitude:Distance from sea level. 705km Inclination: 98.2° Origination: NASA/USGS Science Instruments: OLI-2; TIRS-2 OLI-2...
Operational Land Imager 2 (OLI-2): 9 spectral bands as Band 1 to 9 (15m, 30m, and 60m) Thermal Infrared Sensor 2 (TIRS-2): 2 thermal bands as Band 10 and 11 (100m spatial resolution) Radiometric Resolution: 14-bit Launch Date: September 27, 2021 ...
Launch Date: September 27, 2021 Launch Location: Vandenberg Space Force Base Designed Life: September 27, 2026 Launch Vehicle: United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket Altitude:Distance from sea level. 705km Inclination: 98.2° Origination: NASA/USGS Science Instruments: OLI-2; TIRS-2 OLI-...
Today's launch marked the 145th flight of an Atlas V to date and the 88th flight of the rocket for NASA. In August, ULA announced that it had only 29 Atlas V rockets left in its fleet and that all of those launch vehicles already have confirmed missions. The Atlas V flew today in...
From Landsat-1 to 9, the Landsat program is the greatest archive on our planet It’s a collaborative effort between NASA and USGS. NASA is generally responsible for the launch. Then, the US Geological Survey (USGS) is in charge of operating, receiving, and archiving the data. ...
This launch is the 300th Atlas launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base. To date ULA has launched 144 times with 100 percent mission success. With more than a century of combined heritage, ULA is the nation’s most experienced and reliable launch service provider. ULA has successfully delivered...
Plans existed to allow this under-fly for any possible launch date of Landsat 9. This included 16 ascent plans and 16 data acquisition plans, one for every day of the Landsat orbital repeat period, with a minimum of 5 days of useful coverage overlap between the sensors. Afte...
NASA is responsible for developing the space and launch segments. They build, launch, and perform the on-orbit checkout for the Landsat satellites. Images of Landsat 8 launch and the thermal instrument onboard Landsat 9 being built. The USGS is responsible for developing the ground segment and...
Figure 9: True color Landsat 8 image in leaf-on (left) and leaf-off (right) conditions. Historical Archive One of the greatest benefits of Landsat data is its historical archive. The continuous dataset dating back to 1972 allows its users tocompare imagery across several decades. Although sens...