Eyes on Earth Episode 45 – Harmonized Landsat Sentinel Data

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Summary: Landsat satellites have monitored the Earth’s surface for nearly 50 years, providing critical information for countless areas of study and real world applications. But with observations only collected every 8-16 days, there are limits to what can be tracked. On today’s episode of Eyes on Earth, we hear about a soon-to-be-released data product that merges Landsat with data from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 satellites, which will offer more opportunities to monitor rapid change. The harmonized Landsat-Sentinel data will be available through the Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC), located at the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center.

Guest: Dr. Jeffrey Masek, NASA Landsat Project Scientist, Brian Freitag, NASA Research Physical Scientist

Host: John Hult

Producer: John Hult

Release date: March 8, 2021

More on the Harmonized Landsat Sentinel Data: 

• Harmonized Landsat-Sentinel 2 (HLS) Overview
• Getting Started with Cloud-Native HLS Data in Python
• HLS Python SuPER Script
• Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center