ECCOE Staff provide support to a number of USGS projects that are important in Earth Observation discovery and data characterization. Information about Landsat Calibration/Validation activities, the Joint Agency Commercial Imagery Evaluation (JACIE) team, and the Requirements Capabilities & Analysis for Earth Observations (RCA-EO) effort is listed below.
Landsat Cal/Val
ECCOE maintains the primary responsibility for radiometric and geometric characterization, and the overall Calibration and Validation of the Landsat spacecrafts and the instruments they carry.
JACIE
The Joint Agency Commercial Imagery Evaluation (JACIE) team assesses the quality and capabilities of newly launched commercial high-resolution satellites.
RCA-EO
Requirements Capabilities & Analysis for Earth Observations (RCA-EO) works to understand user needs for Earth observation, measurement, and monitoring.