This natural color Landsat 9 image from December 10, 2021 shows the cities of San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland surrounding the San Francisco Bay. The bay is the largest estuary on the west coast and includes a patchwork of mud flats, salt marshes, and salt ponds.
Landsat 9 User Handbook Now Available
By Landsat Missions
March 3, 2022
The Landsat 9 Data User Handbook is now available for download from the Landsat Missions Web Site.
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This handbook contains information about the Landsat 9 mission and spacecraft, the sensors carried on the observatory, the calibration/validation activities to ensure the mission is successful, and how to access Landsat 9 data and science products.
The handbook can be found on the Landsat 9 Mission and Landsat Project Documents webpages.
Landsat 9 is a joint mission between the USGS and NASA and is the latest in the Landsat series of remote sensing satellites.
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