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  2. Landsat 8 - Wikipedia

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    Landsat 8 is an American Earth observation satellite launched on 11 February 2013. It is the eighth satellite in the Landsat program and the seventh to reach orbit successfully. Originally called the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM), it is a collaboration between NASA and the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

  3. Landsat program - Wikipedia

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    The Landsat program is the longest-running enterprise for acquisition of satellite imagery of Earth. It is a joint NASA / USGS program. On 23 July 1972, ...

  4. File:NASA Earth Observing Fleet including Landsat 8.ogv

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  5. Normalized difference water index - Wikipedia

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    Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) may refer to one of at least two remote sensing-derived indexes related to liquid water: . One is used to monitor changes in water content of leaves, using near-infrared (NIR) and short-wave infrared (SWIR) wavelengths, proposed by Gao in 1996: [1]

  6. Operational Land Imager - Wikipedia

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    The Operational Land Imager (OLI) is a remote sensing instrument aboard Landsat 8, built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies. Landsat 8 is the successor to Landsat 7 and was launched on February 11, 2013. [1] OLI is a push broom scanner that uses a four-mirror telescope with fixed mirrors.

  7. Tasseled cap transformation - Wikipedia

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    In 1976, the Tasseled Cap Index was published by R.J. Kauth and G.S. Thomas.It was generated on the basis of spectral information from the Landsat satellite. The Tasseled Cap coefficients used in the linear equation of the Tasseled Cap transformation are sensor specific and therefore, were derived for each sensor system.

  8. File:Lower Green Bay, March 20, 2022, true color Landsat-8.png

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  9. Landsat 7 - Wikipedia

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    Landsat 7 is the seventh satellite of the Landsat program. Launched on 15 April 1999, Landsat 7's primary goal is to refresh the global archive of satellite photos ...