Landsat 9: ready for launch

Brian L. Markham; Cody H. Anderson; Michael J. Choate; Christopher J. Crawford; Del T. Jenstrom; Jeffrey A. Masek; Jeffrey A. Pedelty; Brian K. Sauer; Kurtis J. Thome

doi:10.1117/12.2595885

1 August 2021 Landsat 9: ready for launch

Brian L. Markham, Cody H. Anderson, Michael J. Choate, Christopher J. Crawford, Del T. Jenstrom, Jeffrey A. Masek, Jeffrey A. Pedelty, Brian K. Sauer, Kurtis J. Thome

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Proceedings Volume 11829, Earth Observing Systems XXVI; 118290J (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2595885
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2021, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Landsat 9 is in its final preparations for launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base on 16 September 2021. It has completed its environmental testing at Northrop Grumman Space (NGSP) in Gilbert, Arizona and has been transported to its California launch site. It will be launched into a 705 km orbit replacing Landsat 7 to provide 8-day Earth land mass coverage in concert with Landsat 8. Landsat 8 carries the first Operational Land Imager (OLI) and the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS); Landsat 9 carries the second of each: OLI-2 and TIRS-2. Once launched it will undergo a 90-day activation, checkout, characterization and calibration, a.k.a. commissioning phase before transitioning to operations. For a several-day period during this commissioning phase, Landsat 9 will under-fly Landsat 8, allowing near simultaneous data collection by both sensors of common Earth targets. These data will be used to compare the radiometric calibrations of the instruments and allow for adjustments of processing parameters to provide more consistent data products.

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Brian L. Markham, Cody H. Anderson, Michael J. Choate, Christopher J. Crawford, Del T. Jenstrom, Jeffrey A. Masek, Jeffrey A. Pedelty, Brian K. Sauer, and Kurtis J. Thome "Landsat 9: ready for launch", Proc. SPIE 11829, Earth Observing Systems XXVI, 118290J (1 August 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2595885

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