Landsat Science Team members are tasked to provide scientific and technical evaluations on topics that are deemed important across the Landsat user community, for example:
Data Characterization
Landsat Science Data Products
- Requirements, strategies, algorithms and approaches for developing Landsat Science products
- Defining new innovative Landsat standard and derived products
Data Applications
- Advanced methods or strategies for multi-decadal and large-area land change assessments
- New applications and research capabilities resulting from the Landsat free data policy
- Value of Landsat for addressing societal issues
USGS and NASA Landsat Project Scientists co-chair each team.
The primary task of the 2018-2023 Landsat Science Team is to provide scientific and technical evaluations to the USGS and NASA on issues critical to the success of the Landsat program, and to ensure that data from future missions (such as Landsat 9 and beyond) are successfully integrated into the overall Landsat record.
As recognized national and international leaders in land remote sensing, 2012-2017 Landsat Science Team members were tasked with evaluating issues of importance to all Landsat users. They played a key role in ensuring that data from future missions are successfully integrated with already archived remotely sensed data for the purpose of observing national and global environmental systems.
The 2006-2011 Landsat Science Team were tasked with recommending strategies for the effective use of archived data from Landsat sensors and investigated the requirements for future sensors to meet the needs of Landsat users, including the needs of policy makers at all levels of government.
The 1996-2001 Landsat Science Team were tasked the responsibility to conduct basic research, develop new and innovative methods for using Landsat observations for global change studies, and to evaluate the quality of data acquired by Landsat and other land-surface imaging missions prior to the launch of Landsat 7.