Use this tag when asking question related to the 8th satellite in the Landsat program.
The 8th satellite in the landsat program. Launched on February 11, 2013 and currently operational. Offers the following bands:
Operational Land Imager (OLI)
- Band 1 Visible (0.43 - 0.45 µm) 30 m
- Band 2 Visible (0.450 - 0.51 µm) 30 m
- Band 3 Visible (0.53 - 0.59 µm) 30 m
- Band 4 Red (0.64 - 0.67 µm) 30 m
- Band 5 Near-Infrared (0.85 - 0.88 µm) 30 m
- Band 6 SWIR 1(1.57 - 1.65 µm) 30 m
- Band 7 SWIR 2 (2.11 - 2.29 µm) 30 m
- Band 8 Panchromatic (PAN) (0.50 - 0.68 µm) 15 m
- Band 9 Cirrus (1.36 - 1.38 µm) 30 m
Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS)
- Band 10 TIRS 1 (10.6 - 11.19 µm) 100 m
- Band 11 TIRS 2 (11.5 - 12.51 µm) 100 m
The Landsat 8 satellite images the entire Earth every 16 days in an 8-day offset from Landsat 7. Data collected by the instruments onboard the satellite are available to download at no charge.
https://landsat.usgs.gov/landsat-8
See http://landsat.usgs.gov/about_ldcm.php for more extensive details.
