Title :
The Landsat Data Continuity Mission Operational Land Imager (OLI) sensor
Author :
Markham, Brian L. ; Knight, Edward J. ; Canova, Brent ; Donley, Eric ; Kvaran, Geir ; Lee, Kenton ; Barsi, Julia A. ; Pedelty, Jeffrey A. ; Dabney, Philip W. ; Irons, James R.
Author_Institution :
NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Abstract :
The Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) is being developed by NASA and USGS and is currently planned for launch in January 2013 [1]. Once on-orbit and checked out, it will be operated by USGS and officially named Landsat-8. Two sensors will be on LDCM: the Operational Land Imager (OLI), which has been built and delivered by Ball Aerospace & Technology Corp (BATC) and the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS)[2], which was built and delivered by Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). The OLI covers the Visible, Near-IR (NIR) and Short-Wave Infrared (SWIR) parts of the spectrum; TIRS covers the Thermal Infrared (TIR). This paper discusses only the OLI instrument and its pre-launch characterization; a companion paper covers TIRS.
Keywords :
artificial satellites; geophysical equipment; infrared detectors; optical sensors; remote sensing; AD 2013 01; LDCM Operational Land Imager sensor; Landsat Data Continuity Mission OLI sensor; Landsat-8; NASA; OLI prelaunch characterization; TIRS; Thermal Infrared Sensor; USGS; Assembly; Calibration; Earth; Instruments; Radiometry; Remote sensing; Satellites; Remote sensing; optical sensors;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1160-1
Electronic_ISBN :
2153-6996
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6351961
