December 2022 - Vol. 1 | Issue 7
All Landsat Collection 1 data and science products in the USGS archives will become unavailable at the end of December 2022. The ability to submit ESPA orders for Landsat Collection 1-based products will end on Friday, December 16, 2022. Collection 1 products will remain available for search and download through December 31, 2022. Read about all of it in this month's issue.
New Landsat Collection 2 Science Products Released
Landsat Collection 2 Level-2 Provisional Aquatic Reflectance (AR) and Level-3 Provisional Actual Evapotranspiration (ETa) science products are now available. Landsat 9 is also now available for both products.
Landsat Collection 2
Landsat Collection 2, the second major reprocessing effort on the Landsat archive, resulted in several data product improvements that applied advancements in data processing, algorithm development, and data access and distribution capabilities.
Landsat Collection 2 contains Level-1 data from Landsats 1-9, and Level-2 and Level-3 science products from Landsats 4-9.
Landsat Science Products Overview
Explore an overview of the Landsat Science Products.
Collection 1 is Retiring
All Landsat Collection 1 data and science products will be removed from USGS data access platforms by the end of 2022.
Landsat 5 Flight Operations Team Wins Pecora Award
Landsat 5, already honored by the Guinness Book of World Records as the Longest Operating Earth Observation Satellite, received another award at the recent “Pecora 22” William T. Pecora Memorial Remote Sensing Symposium.
November 2022 Landsat Update
Landsat Updates are prepared periodically and distributed electronically to provide information about Landsat activities and related topics of interest.
Landsat Technical Working Group Meets in Germany
The USGS Landsat International Cooperator Network, in coordination with the German Aerospace Center (DLR), met for the Landsat Technical Working Group (LTWG) #31 meeting in Rostock, Germany during the first week of October.