Landsat Tools

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Landsat Data Acquisitions

• Acquisitions Calendars: View Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 paths scheduled to be acquired on any day.
• Pending Acquisitions & Archive: Display paths and download files containing the paths that were acquired on any day.
• Landsat Archive Dashboard: Provides interactive map views of Landsat Collection 2 products per WRS-1 or WRS-2 by Path/Row.

Data Access Notifications

• Data Notifications: View current notices about data and portals, including system updates, maintenance schedules, and data availability changes.

   

Landsat Data Reprocessing Information 

• Landsat Reprocessing Events Search Application: The USGS consistently delivers high quality Landsat products suitable for science research and analysis. On occasion, Landsat data may need to be reprocessed. The Landsat Reprocessing Events Search Application allows you to discover scene and tile products that have been changed by reprocessing.  

Bulk Downloads of Landsat Data and Metadata

• EarthExplorer (EE) Bulk Download Web Application (BDWA): Easy way to continuously download products from EarthExplorer.
• Landsat Bulk Metadata Service: Extract scene metadata from the Landsat inventory for Landsat-related datasets. 

Calibration/Validation Tools

• Calibration Parameter Files: Provide radiometric and geometric coefficients needed for processing of raw, uncorrected Landsat image data.
• Bias Parameter Files: Supply radiometric correction parameters that are applied during Level-1 processing of Landsat 8-9 OLI/TIRS data.
• Response Linearization Look Up Tables:  Additional files that accompany Calibration Parameter Files (CPF) and contain a mapping look up table to linearize the output of the Landsat 8-9 OLI and TIRS detectors.
• Landsat Level-1 Conversion Equations: Information on converting to Top of atmosphere (TOA) radiance, TOA reflectance, and TOA brightness temperature.
• Landsat Ground Control Point Search: Extract ground control point binary files from the USGS EROS GCP Library over an area of interest.
• Solar Illumination and Sensor Viewing Angle Band Tools: Allow users to create angle bands in a LINUX environment.

Spectral Characteristics Viewer

• Spectral Characteristics Viewer:  Allows users to determine which satellite bands are best suited for their research application.

Converters

• Landsat Analysis Ready Data (ARD) Tile Conversion Tool: Converts Landsat WRS-2 path/rows or latitude/longitude coordinates into corresponding Landsat ARD tiles.
• Landsat Path/Row - Latitude/Longitude Conversion Tool: Allows the entry of latitude/longitude coordinates to calculate the corresponding Landsat path/rows.

Quality Assessment Tools

• Landsat Quality Assessment (QA) Tools:  Improve interpretation, mapping and application of Landsat quality information.

Landsat Interactives

Landsat Interactives use maps, images, and stories to show how Landsat satellites help people around the world. They highlight real examples—like tracking city growth, supporting farmers, managing water, and responding to natural disasters—making it easy to see how Landsat data benefits everyday life. 

Subscriptions

• Landsat Product Subscription Service: Submit standing requests to be notified when data meeting specified criteria is added to the USGS Landsat data archive.
• Latest in Landsat Newsletter: Sign up to receive monthly emails containing Landsat announcements.
• Landsat RSS Feeds:  Receive notification when new information is added to a variety of Landsat-related tools. 

Shapefiles, ARD tile grid and WRS maps, KML Files

• Landsat ARD Tile Grids, WRS Maps, and KML Files: Download files of worldwide maps showing, routine path/rows, a spreadsheet of WRS-2 corner points, and also both ascending and descending shapefile, and KML files. 

Other Helpful Information

• EarthNow!: Watch live and recent acquisitions of Landsat 8 and Landsat 9.
• Landsat 7 Scan Line Corrector (SLC) -off Gap Phase Statistic Calculator: Allows users to enter the Gap Phase Statistic values of two Landsat 7 scenes to determine the approximate area that would be covered by combining the two selected scenes.
• Landsat 7 Definitive Ephemeris:  Definitive Ephemeris is used for geometrically correcting Landsat 7 data.