Remote Sensing Research and Development

The ISS SERVIR Environmental Research and Visualization System (ISERV) is an automated system designed to acquire images of the Earth's surface from the International Space Station (ISS).

Surface Reflectance Higher-Level Data Products at a 30-meter spatial resolution can be ordered for Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Collection 1 scenes. (1999-December 31, 2022). NOTE: Landsat Collection 1 data and products are no longer available to download from the USGS as of December 30, 2022. Landsat Collection 2 remains available. Please access the Landsat Collection 2 webpage below for...

Landsat 8 OLI (Operational Land Imager) and TIRS (Thermal Infrared Sensor) 15- to 30- meter multispectral data from Landsat 8. NOTE: Landsat Collection 1 data and products are no longer available to download from the USGS as of December 30, 2022. Landsat Collection 2 remains available. Please access the Landsat Collection 2 webpage below for information about Collection 2 data and science products...

Surface Reflectance Level-2 Data Products at a 30-meter spatial resolution can be ordered for Landsat 8 OLI/TIRS Collection 1 scenes. (2013-December 31, 2022). NOTE: Landsat Collection 1 data and products are no longer available to download from the USGS as of December 30, 2022. Landsat Collection 2 remains available. Please access the Landsat Collection 2 webpage below for information about...

Heat Capacity Mapping Mission (HCMM) was the first of a series of NASA Applications Explorer Missions (AEM-A) that collected visible and thermal band data. A HCMM scene has a width of 715 km with a moderate resolution of 500-600 meters. (1978-1980)

The Landsat Analysis Ready Data (ARD) consists of Top of Atmosphere (TA) reflectance, top of atmosphere Brightness Temperature (BT), Surface Reflectance (SR), Provisional Surface Temperature (ST), and Quality Assessment (QA) data. NOTE: Landsat Collection 1 data and products are no longer available to download from the USGS as of December 30, 2022. Landsat Collection 2 remains available. Please...

EROS Laser Beam Recorders (LBRs) recorded MSS and RBV data at 28 microns to 9-inch film rolls and the imagery was chipped up for archival storage and remains a viable archive backup to the digital MSS archive

Landsat 4 and 5 TM scenes scanned from film images-available as color composite or 7 B/W spectral bands. (1982-1988)

Landsats 1 through 5 MSS scenes from film sources are available in digital format as a color composite and as four black-and-white spectral bands. (1972-1992)

Weekly VegDRI maps integrate remote sensing, climate, and biophysical data to provide timely drought information for the conterminous United States. (2009-present)

Weekly geospatial model and dataset that is an indicator of short-term dryness across the conterminous United States (CONUS). Quick Drought Response Index (QuickDRI) is designed to have improved sensitivity to early-stage drought conditions and rapidly evolving drought events.

Daily global Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) images and data based on surface reflectance derived from data acquired by the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) on NOAA’s polar orbiting weather satellites (1981-2013).