USGS Landsat

Description

This joint NASA/USGS program provides the longest continuous space-based record of Earth’s land in existence. Every day, Landsat satellites provide essential information to help land managers and policy makers make wise decisions about our resources and our environment. Data is provided for Landsats 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8.

Update Frequency

New scenes are added daily.

License

There are no restrictions on Landsat data downloaded from the USGS; it can be used or redistributed as desired. We do request that you include a statement of the data source when citing, copying, or reprinting USGS Landsat data or images.

Documentation

https://www.usgs.gov/core-science-systems/nli/landsat/landsat-commercial-cloud-data-access

Managed By

United States Geological Survey

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Contact

https://answers.usgs.gov/

Usage Examples

Tutorials

• A Gentle Introduction to GDAL Part 4: Working with Satellite Data by Planet
  
• Cloud Segmentation in Landsat-8 Images by Ingrid Grenet
  
• Exploring the Chile wildfires with Landsat and Sentinel-2 imagery by Timothy Whitehead
  
• Integrate imagery from the full Landsat archive into your own apps, maps, and analysis with Landsat image services by Esri
  
• Landsat Cloud Direct Access Requester Pays Tutorial by USGS
  
• Landsat Data is Moving to the Cloud by USGS
  
• Landsat in the Cloud – Supporting Current Workflows by USGS
  
• Using Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF by acgeospatial
  
• Using Vector tiles and AWS Lambda, we can build a really simple API to get Landsat and Sentinel images by Remote Pixel
  

Tools & Applications

• Aggi: the fire detecting Twitter bot by Aggi
  
• Apps for exploring and analyzing Landsat imagery on the fly by Esri
  
• COG-Explorer - View Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF images in the browser directly from object storage by EOX
  
• Development Seed Geolambda by Matthew Hanson
  
• Dynamic map tiling with Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs by Kyle Barron
  
• EOS Land Viewer by Earth Observing System
  
• FME Landsat-8 on AWS Reader by Safe Software
  
• FME Landsat-8/Sentinel-2 File Selector by Safe Software
  
• landsatlive.live by Development Seed
  
• Sentinel Hub WMS/WMTS/WCS Service for Landsat by Sinergise
  
• Sentinel Playground for Landsat by Sinergise
  
• Spectator - tracking Landsat 8, accessing the data and quick preview by Spectator
  

Publications

• Using Remote Sensing Images and Cloud Services on AWS to Improve Land Use and Cover Monitoring by K. R. Ferreira, et al.