Land Measurement from Future Landsat Missions
Abstract
The current strategy for implementing a successor mission to Landsat 7 involves the integration of Landsat sensors onto satellites under development for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS). Unlike the data from other sensors planned for NPOESS satellites, Landsat data are not yet incorporated into algorithms for the generation of environmental data records. Placing the Landsat program into the NPOESS system creates the opportunity for defining and implementing environmental data records which fuse high resolution Landsat data with coarser resolution observations from the other sensors to create a suite of useful land measurement products. For example, a prototype product has been developed merging Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper-Plus (ETM+) data with Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data to create synthetic "daily" high resolution land reflectance images. This product is regarded as a preliminary step in creating annual, global land cover and land cover change maps meeting the needs of the Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) and other national and international environmental monitoring programs. The strategy for continuing the Landsat mission, the prototype land reflectance product, and the potential for using Landsat data to operationally produce a suite of land cover / land use change data records will be discussed.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2005
- Bibcode:
- 2005AGUFM.B43E..02I
- Keywords:
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- 0480 Remote sensing;
- 0485 Science policy (6620)