Landsat Missions
Product Information
Landsat data products are continually being matured into the highest quality possible. Level-1 data products are used to create higher-level science data such as surface temperature, surface water, burned area and snow covered area. These products allow scientists to provide improved and more useful results for land change and use analysis.
Landsat Science Products
Landsat Level-2 and Level-3 Science Products contain higher-level data to allow scientists to better document changes to Earth's terrestrial environment.
Sci Products InfoU.S. Landsat ARD
U.S. Landsat Analysis Ready Data (ARD) are processed to highest scientific standards, and placed in a tile-based structure to support time-series analysis.
More Info on ARDLandsat Collections
Landsat Collections ensures that the data in the Landsat Level-1 archive are consistent in processing and data quality to support time-series analyses and data stacking.
Collections InfoLandsat Global Archive Consolidation (LGAC)
The effort that started in 2010 to consolidate Landsat data acquired at ground stations around the world in the USGS archive.
LandsatLook Images
Full resolution files useful for fast and easy image selection and visual interpretation
Global Land Surveys
Consistent, terrain-corrected, coordinated collections of data.
Web-enabled Landsat Data (WELD)
Large area 30-meter composited mosaics from Landsat terrain-corrected (Level-1T) data.
Landsat Sample Products
The USGS provides the Landsat user community with access to standard and provisional sample products.
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April 21, 2008 - Imagery for Everyone
By February 2009, any Landsat archive scene selected by a user will be processed, at no charge, automatically to a standard product recipe and staged for electronic retrieval.
Imagery for Everyone - Timeline to Open Landsat Archive
Imagery for Everyone - Timeline to Open Landsat Archive
This announcement provided a timeline when the entire Landsat data archive would be opened for all users, to download data at no charge.
Visit this 2008 Landsat Headline.
Users Realize Significant Economic, Societal Benefits of Landsat
What’s the value of data acquired from Landsat sensors when it comes to tracking toxic algal blooms in freshwater lakes? In monitoring vital habitat for threatened species? Or in regulating scarce water resources across drought-stricken landscapes?
Quite a bit, it turns out.
Free, Open Landsat Data Unleashed the Power of Remote Sensing a Decade Ago
In the old days, before 2008, a view of planet Earth from space often came at a cost.