Return to Landsat Science Team Meetings
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Goddard, Maryland
February 3-5, 2015
Meeting objectives:
- Review and discuss Landsat 7-8 and sustaining land imaging status and issues
- Continue discussion on concepts and specific actions for making the Landsat archive and Landsat products more science-relevant
Sources/Usage: Public Domain.
Tuesday, February 3
- Introductions (Irons and Loveland)
- NASA and USGS HQ reports (Doorn, Newman, Ryker)
- Status of sustained land imaging formulation
- Decadal Survey
- Landsat Advisory Group report (Green)
- Landsat Mission Status (Thayer)
- Landsat 7 and 8 operations and archive status (Sauer)
- Landsat 7-8 acquisition improvements (Fosnight)
- Landsat 8 TIRS instrument status:
- TIRS Stray light issues (Morfitt, Markham, Reuter)
- TIRS Stray light Optics and Testing (Reuter)
- TIRS SSM Encoder Anomaly (Lacasse)
- USGS plans for resuming TIRS acquisitions and L1T processing (Morfitt)
- Team discussion of impacts of TIRS technical issues
Wednesday, February 4
- Review and discussion of planned Landsat product updates (Sauer and others)
- QA bands, including cloud product improvement
- Solar illumination/sensor view angle data
- Top-of-atmosphere reflectance
- Surface reflectance and temperature
- Metadata improvements
- Ground control library improvements
- Product format changes
- Others (TBD)
- Landsat Level-2 Product Status (Dwyer)
- NASA and USGS plans for Sentinel-2 activities:
- Sentinel-2 Data (Markham)
- USGS Sentinel-2 Status (Dwyer)
- Landsat 7 end-of-life discussion (Thayer and Covington)
- Update on calibration topics (Helder)
- Priorities for Landsat MSS improvements (Cohen and Braaten)
Thursday, February 5
- NASA program reports
- Land Cover/Land Use Change (LCLUC) Program (Gutman or designate)
- Terrestrial Ecosystems Carbon Cycle Land use/ Land Cover Change & Biodiversity (TECLUB) (Masek)
- Future imaging technology discussion (Dabney and Masek)
- USGS EROS Architecture Study Team scope and activities (Nelson)
- Open floor for Landsat Science Team topics
- Discussion on the status of the Landsat 8 Remote Sensing of Environment special issue (Loveland and Irons)
- Plans for next meeting and meeting wrap-up