Current status of Landsat program, science, and applications

• Published in: Remote sensing of environment Vol. 225; pp. 127 - 147
• Main Authors: Wulder, Michael A., Loveland, Thomas R., Roy, David P., Crawford, Christopher J., Masek, Jeffrey G., Woodcock, Curtis E., Allen, Richard G., Anderson, Martha C., Belward, Alan S., Cohen, Warren B., Dwyer, John, Erb, Angela, Gao, Feng, Griffiths, Patrick, Helder, Dennis, Hermosilla, Txomin, Hipple, James D., Hostert, Patrick, Hughes, M. Joseph, Huntington, Justin, Johnson, David M., Kennedy, Robert, Kilic, Ayse, Li, Zhan, Lymburner, Leo, McCorkel, Joel, Pahlevan, Nima, Scambos, Theodore A., Schaaf, Crystal, Schott, John R., Sheng, Yongwei, Storey, James, Vermote, Eric, Vogelmann, James, White, Joanne C., Wynne, Randolph H., Zhu, Zhe
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Elsevier Inc 01.05.2019; Elsevier BV
• Subjects: Algorithms; Applications programs; Archives & records; Archiving; ARD; Climate change; Climate change mitigation; Climate change monitoring; Climate monitoring; Continuity; Data transmission; Deforestation; Feedback loops; Imagery; Land change science; Land cover; Landsat; Landsat satellites; Landsat science team; monitoring; OLI; Open data; planning; Positive feedback; Remote sensing; Remote sensing science; Satellite programs; Satellites; Science; time series analysis; TIRS; Trends; TIRS; ARD; Land change science; Landsat science team; Land cover; OLI; Open data; Remote sensing science

Formal planning and development of what became the first Landsat satellite commenced over 50 years ago in 1967. Now, having collected earth observation data for well over four decades since the 1972 launch of Landsat-1, the Landsat program is increasingly complex and vibrant. Critical programmatic e...