Lake Pontchartrain MTF Calibration Site

Lake Pontchartrain Causway is a 24 mile bridge that is similar in surface reflectivity and nearly aligned with Landsat's ground track. Because it is so reflective and uniform it makes and excellent single line target for modulation transfer function (MTF) calibration.

Landsat 8: LC08_L1TP_022039_20190322_20190403_01_T1

Date:03222019

Path: 22 Row: 39

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Remote-Sensing Image Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center Online_Linkage: https://lta.cr.usgs.gov/L8 Description: Abstract: The USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center archive holds data collected by the Landsat suite of satellites, beginning with Landsat 1 in 1972. Landsat 8, launched February 11, 2013, is the latest Landsat sensor. Purpose: The Landsat archive provides a rich collection of information about the Earth's land surface. Major characteristics of changes to the surface of the planet can be detected, measured, and analyzed using Landsat data. The information obtainable from the historical and current Landsat data play a key role in studying surface changes through time. Supplemental_Information: Landsat represents the world's longest continuously acquired collection of space-based moderate-resolution land remote sensing data. As a joint initiative between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the National Aeronautical Space Administration (NASA), the Landsat Project and the data it collects support government, commercial, industrial, civilian, military, and educational communities throughout the United States and world. Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI)/Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) Collection 1 provides a quality-controlled selection of radiometrically calibrated and consistently geolocated data; particular geodetic accuracy and error tolerances are specified to align pixels for time series analysis through the full Landsat record.