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

fYear

2012

fDate

22-27 July 2012

Firstpage

6995

Lastpage

6998

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1160-1

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6351961

Filename

6351961