The Thermal Infrared Sensor on the Landsat Data Continuity Mission

Author

Reuter, Dennis ; Richardson, Cathy ; Irons, James ; Allen, Rick ; Anderson, Martha ; Budinoff, Jason ; Casto, Gordon ; Coltharp, Craig ; Finneran, Paul ; Forsbacka, Betsy ; Hale, Taylor ; Jennings, Tom ; Jhabvala, Murzy ; Lunsford, Allen ; Magnuson, Greg

Author_Institution

GSFC, NASA, Greenbelt, MD, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

25-30 July 2010

Firstpage

754

Lastpage

757

Abstract

The Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM), a joint NASA and USGS mission, is scheduled for launch in December, 2012. The LDCM instrument payload will consist of the Operational Land Imager (OLI), provided by Ball Aerospace and Technology Corporation (BATC) under contract to NASA and the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS), provided by NASA´s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). This paper outlines the design of the TIRS instrument and gives an example of its application to monitoring water consumption by measuring evapotranspiration.

Keywords

evaporation; hydrological techniques; remote sensing; transpiration; BATC; Ball Aerospace and Technology Corporation; Goddard Space Flight Center; LDCM instrument payload; Landsat Data Continuity Mission; NASA-USGS mission; Operational Land Imager; Thermal Infrared Sensor; evapotranspiration; water consumption monitoring; Calibration; Earth; Instruments; Optical filters; Pixel; Remote sensing; Satellites; LDCM; TIRS; evapotranspiration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9565-8

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5653746

Filename

5653746