Benefits of the free and open Landsat data policy

Zhu, Zhe; A. Wulder, Michael; P. Roy, David; E. Woodcock, Curtis; C. Hansen, Matthew; C. Radeloff, Volker; P. Healey, Sean; Schaaf, Crystal; Hostert, Patrick; Strobl, Peter; Pekel, Jean‐François; Lymburner, Leo; Pahlevan, Nima; A. Scambos, T.

doi:10.1016/j.rse.2019.02.016

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Benefits of the free and open Landsat data policy

Published in Remote Sensing of Environment • Feb 27, 2019

Authors:

Zhe Zhu

Michael A. Wulder

David P. Roy

Abstract

The United States (U.S.) federal government provides imagery obtained by federally funded Earth Observation satellites typically at no cost. For many years Landsat was an exception to this trend, until 2008 when the United States Geological Survey (USGS) made Landsat data accessible via the internet...

Subject

Government (linguistics)

Remote sensing

Geological survey

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