Landsat Tools
Various files, tools, converters, and information to help better understand Landat acquisitions and data.
*New* Landsat Storymaps
Landsat Storymaps are an interactive way to learn more about Landsat using images, maps, videos, and weblinks.
Landsat Data Acquisitions
- Acquisitions Calendars: View Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 paths scheduled to be acquired on any day.
- Pending Acquisitions & Archive: Display paths and download files containing the paths that were acquired on any day.
- Landsat Archive Dashboard: Provides interactive map views of Landsat Collection 2 products per WRS-1 or WRS-2 by Path/Row.
Spectral Characteristics Viewer
- Spectral Characteristics Viewer: Allows users to determine which satellite bands are best suited for their research application.
Bulk Downloads of Landsat Data and Metadata
- EarthExplorer (EE) Bulk Download Web Application (BDWA): Easy way to continuously download products from EarthExplorer.
- Landsat Bulk Metadata Service: Extract scene metadata from the Landsat inventory for Landsat-related datasets.
Calibration/Validation Tools
- Calibration Parameter Files: Provide radiometric and geometric coefficients needed for processing of raw, uncorrected Landsat image data.
- Bias Parameter Files: Supply radiometric correction parameters that are applied during Level-1 processing of Landsat 8-9 OLI/TIRS data.
- Response Linearization Look Up Tables: Additional files that accompany Calibration Parameter Files (CPF) and contain a mapping look up table to linearize the output of the Landsat 8-9 OLI and TIRS detectors.
- Landsat Level-1 Conversion Equations: Information on converting to Top of atmosphere (TOA) radiance, TOA reflectance, and TOA brightness temperature.
- Landsat Ground Control Point Search: Extract ground control point binary files from the USGS EROS GCP Library over an area of interest.
- Solar Illumination and Sensor Viewing Angle Band Tools: Allow users to create angle bands in a LINUX environment.
Converters
- Landsat Analysis Ready Data (ARD) Tile Conversion Tool: Converts Landsat WRS-2 path/rows or latitude/longitude coordinates into corresponding Landsat ARD tiles.
- Landsat Path/Row - Latitude/Longitude Conversion Tool: Allows the entry of latitude/longitude coordinates to calculate the corresponding Landsat path/rows.
Quality Assessment Tools
- Landsat Quality Assessment (QA) Tools: Improve interpretation, mapping and application of Landsat quality information.
Subscriptions
- Landsat Product Subscription Service: Submit standing requests to be notified when data meeting specified criteria is added to the USGS Landsat data archive.
- Latest in Landsat Newsletter: Sign up to receive monthly emails containing Landsat announcements.
- Landsat Updates: Sign up to receive periodic emails containing latest news and Landsat data announcements.
- Landsat RSS Feeds: Receive notification when new information is added to a variety of Landsat-related tools.
Shapefiles, ARD tile grid and WRS maps, KML Files
- Landsat ARD Tile Grids, WRS Maps, and KML Files: Download files of worldwide maps showing, routine path/rows, a spreadsheet of WRS-2 corner points, and also both ascending and descending shapefile, and KML files.
Other Helpful Information
- EarthNow!: Watch live and recent acquisitions of Landsat 8 and Landsat 9.
- Landsat 7 Scan Line Corrector (SLC) -off Gap Phase Statistic Calculator: Allows users to enter the Gap Phase Statistic values of two Landsat 7 scenes to determine the approximate area that would be covered by combining the two selected scenes.
- Landsat 7 Definitive Ephemeris: Definitive Ephemeris is used for geometrically correcting Landsat 7 data.