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NASA To Release Landsat 7 Data On the Web

Posted by kdawson on from the planetary-legacy dept.

UAVThumper writes "The US Geological Survey homepage is featuring an article about the upcoming release of select Landsat 7 image data (on June 4) at glovis.usgs.gov or earthexplorer.usgs.gov. This is to be a pilot project for a larger effort called the Landsat Data Continuity Mission, whose end result looks like a version of Google Earth using Landsat data. Seven Landsat satellites were launched over a period of 27 years, the last in 1999. More on Landsat can be found here on Wikipedia or here at the official NASA Page."

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  1. Wow! by jim_deane · · Score: 4, Interesting


    This is really fantastic! I've done some academic work in geospatial analysis, and finding good data is always the biggest challenge--especially on a tight budget.

    It won't always be perfectly aligned with the project objectives, but to have it easily available and pre-processed (ortho-rectified, with metadata) will help with many projects.

  2. how is this differ from the landsat 2000 data? by JohnnyCanuck · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Anyone know how this is different from the existing Landsat 2000 data that's been available for years ?

    https://zulu.ssc.nasa.gov/mrsid/

    Other than the fact that its mostly in the MrSid format ?