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November 19, 2020 – Landsat 8 Data Availability Update from Recent Safehold Events
The Landsat 8 Flight Operations Team has successfully restored the Operational Land Imaging (OLI) and the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) instruments to nominal operations and resumed imaging of OLI/TIRS combined data on November 14, 2020.
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Updated calibration parameters for OLI and TIRS have been applied to all data after the November 1 safehold, and these data have been reprocessed as Real-Time (RT) products and made available for download from EarthExplorer as the following products:
November 1 Safehold
- Nov 1 post safehold to Nov 3: no data
- Nov 4 to Nov 8: OLI-only
- Nov 9: started as OLI-only then transitioned to OLI/TIRS combined
- Nov 9 to Nov 12: OLI/TIRS combined
November 12 Safehold
- Nov 12 post safehold to Nov 13: no data
- Nov 14: OLI-only (3 orbits)
- Nov 14 to present: OLI/TIRS combined
Acquisitions since the initial safehold on November 1 are still being analyzed and additional calibration parameters may be applied in reprocessing these to Collection 1 Tier 1 or Tier 2 products after the current TIRS Scene Select Mechanism (SSM) event is closed out.
An updated headline will be provided when final processing related to these safehold events is complete.