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Landsat Science Team Meeting — October 27-29, 2026

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The 2026-2030 Landsat Science Team met October 27-29, 2026, at the USGS National Center in Reston, Virginia.

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Landsat Science Team October 2026
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The 2026-2030 Landsat Science Team in front of USGS National Center in Reston, Virginia. 

Meeting Objectives

  1. Review progress on 2026–2030 Landsat Science Team activities.
  2. Update the Landsat Science Team on USGS and NASA priorities and program status.
  3. Communicate status of key Landsat activities.
  4. Provide a venue for team members to provide insights to USGS and NASA concerning the Landsat mission.

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

  • Welcome and Kickoff
    • Welcome (Daniel Opstal, USGS)
    • Meeting Objectives, Agenda and Ground Rules (Terry Sohl, USGS; Chris Neigh, NASA; David Roy, Michigan State University)
    • USGS Director's Remarks (Ned Mamula, USGS Director)
    • USGS and NASA Program Perspectives (Tim Newman, USGS; Nima Pahlevan, NASA)
  • Status Updates 
    • Landsat 10 Project Status and Product Plans (Brian Sauer, USGS; Ross Henry, NASA; Chris Crawford, USGS; Chris Neigh, NASA)
    • Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 Status Report (Joe Blahovec, USGS)
  • Landsat and NASA Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) Data Updates
    • HLS Updates (Chris Neigh, NASA)
    • HLS Validation (Amit Angel, NASA)
    • Status of LP DAAC Supported Missions, Datasets, and Services with a Focus on HLS  (Cole Krehbiel, USGS)
  • Landsat Sensor Updates
    • Landsat 10: Landsat Instrument Suite (LandIS) Overview (Matt Montanaro, NASA)
    • Landsat 10: Proxy Data Development Using the Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing Image Generation (DIRSIG) Software Engine (Aaron Gerace, Rochester Institute of Technology)
    • Landsat Radiometry (Esad Micijevic, USGS)
    • Landsat Geometry (Mike Choate, USGS)
    • Landsat Level-2 Product Validation (Jeff Irwin, USGS) 
    • Joint Agency Commercial Imagery Evaluation (JACIE) Collaboration Activities (Cody Anderson, USGS)
  • Funded Team Member Presentations
    • Progress Towards Next-Generation Snow Cover Mapping and Establishment of a Long-Term Ground Validation Site (Lucas Zeller, Liedos; Ned Bair, Liedos)
    • Optimal Estimation for Landsat: Physics-Based Surface Reflectance with Calibrated Uncertainty for 8, 9, and 10 (Nimrod Carmon, UCLA)
    • Landsat 10 Continuity and Fractional Cover Modeling (Phillip Dennison, University of Utah)
    • Harmonizing Inland and Coastal Water Quality Monitoring from the Landsat Program: AQUAVERSE Atmospheric Correction Validation (Ryan O’Shea, SSAI) 
    • Advancing Field-Scale Evapotranspiration Mapping Through Multi-Satellite Observations (Yun Yang, Cornell University)
    • Using Landsat 8/9 Operational Land Imager (OLI) Data to Improve the Geometry of the Landsat 1–5 MSS L1TP Archive, and Some Observations Concerning the Tier 1 Path/Row Image Definition Used for ARD Qualification (Lin Yan, MSU; David Roy, Michigan State University)
  • Daily Recap & Discussion (Terry Sohl, USGS; Chris Neigh, NASA; David Roy, Michigan State University)

Wednesday, October 28, 2026

  • International Team Member Presentations
    • Science Updates and Landsat Application Insights from Fall 2026 WildFireSat User Meeting (Morgan Crowley, Canadian Forest Service)
    • First Landsat 8/9 L2A Results with CHIME-OSL Atmospheric Correction Using PACO (Raquel De Los Reyes, The German Aerospace Center)
    • “Orthorectification Ready”: An Interoperable Level-1B product for Landsat Collection 3?  (Peter Strobl, European Commission)
    • Tiling as the Backbone of Sensor Interoperability and High Throughput Applications / First Experience with the Sentinel-2 L1B Product (David Frantz, Trier University)
    • Landsat Collection 3: Implications of the Continental Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area (CLAEA) Projection for ARD Processing (Medavy Thankappan, Geoscience Australia)
    • From Pixels to Products to Policy: Resilience of Forest Composition, Configuration, and Structure Following Wildfire and Harvest (Joanne White, Canadian Forest Service; Txomin Hermosilla, Canadian Forest Service)
  • Landsat Science Team Working Group Report Backs
    • Projection and Gridding WG Report Back (David Roy, Michigan State University; David Frantz, Trier University; Peter Strobl, European Commission)
    • Updates from the Aquatic Reflectance Technical Working Group: Assessing Atmospheric Correction Approaches in Advance of Collection 3 (Ryan O'Shea, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., lead)
  • Landsat Collection 3 Technical Status
    • Landsat Collection 3 Update Overview (Chris Crawford, USGS)
    • Quality assurance and Cloud Mask (Danika Wellington, KBR/USGS)
    • Surface Reflectance (Danika Wellington, KBR/USGS)
    • Surface Temperature and Emissivity: Internal Technical Review Out brief (Saeed Arab, KBR/USGS)
    • Aquatic Reflectance (Benjamin Page, KBR/USGS)
  • Data Processing and Access, User Services and Requirements
    • Landsat Data Processing System Updates and Access Statistics (Jeff Hess, USGS; Tom Maiersperger, USGS)
    • Landsat SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs (STAC) Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server (Joel Krause, KBR/USGS)
    • Landsat User Services (Danielle Golon, KBR/USGS)
    • USGS – NLI - Requirements Capabilities and Analysis for Earth Observations (Christa Straub, USGS; Ellen Wengert, KBR)
  • Federal Team Member Presentations
    • Mapping Winter Cover Crop Coverage Using HLS (Feng Gao, USDA Agriculture Research Service)
    • Progress in Measuring Agricultural Conservation Land Cover (Dean Hively, USGS)
    • Updates on Characterizing and Monitoring Active Volcanoes and Geothermal Systems Using Landsat (Greg Vaughan, USGS)
    • Updates on the LaSRC Atmospheric Correction Code (Santamaria-Artigas, University of Maryland; Sergii Skakun, University of Maryland)
  • Daily Recap & Discussion (Terry Sohl, USGS; Chris Neigh, NASA; David Roy, Michigan State University)

Thursday, October 29, 2026

  • USGS/NASA Commercial Activity and Interoperability
    • Overview – USGS/NASA Commercial Activity (Doug Daniels, Aerospace/NLI; Nima Pahlevan, NASA; Terry Sohl, USGS; Chris Neigh, NASA)
    • Challenges, Opportunities, and Gaps in EO Interoperability in the 2030s
  • Landsat Science Team Business Meeting
  • USGS/NASA Commercial Activity and Interoperability, Continued
    • Commercial Activity and Interoperability Discussion Topics
      • Calibration and Data Consistency
      • Processing, Validation, and Standards
      • User Needs and Operational Integration
  • Closing Session
    • Group Discussion – Topical Revisit of WG and Other Issues Based on Progress (All)
    • Meeting Recap & Discussion (Terry Sohl, USGS; Chris Neigh, NASA; David Roy, Michigan State University)
    • Adjourn
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