Landsat Missions

Project Descriptions

Landsat represents the world's longest continuously acquired collection of space-based moderate-resolution land remote sensing data. Nearly four decades of imagery provides a unique resource for those who work in agriculture, geology, forestry, regional planning, education, mapping, and global change research. Landsat images are also invaluable for emergency response and disaster relief.

As a joint initiative between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and NASA, the Landsat Project and the data it collects support government, commercial, industrial, civilian, military, and educational communities throughout the United States and worldwide.

Plans for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) are currently underway, with launch scheduled late 2012. As with previous partnerships, this mission will continue to acquire Landsat-quality data that meet both NASA and USGS scientific and operational requirements for observing land use and land change.

In an effort to gather Landsat technical documentation, the NASA Landsat Project Science Office (LPSO) is working with the U.S. Geological Survey and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Library to create an archive of essential Landsat documentation. The Landsat Legacy Project houses technical-, policy- and science-related documents with an emphasis on internal technical papers. An online archive of collected documentation will be accessible by late 2009.

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