[UW-GIS-L] Imagery For Everyone (fwd)

[Harvey Greenberg]

This is good news. Is there now a collection (a library, as it were) of 
landsat images being shared at the UW? Who is organizing it?

harvey

A. Zald wrote:

> Attached is a news release from the USGS announcing that their 35 year 

> archive of Landsat imagery is on a fast track for free online 

> distribution by the end of January 2009. If the attachment doesn't 

> come through it is also posted in the news section of 

> http://wagda.lib.washington.edu/

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> Anne Zald

> Map Collection & Cartographic Information Services

> University of Washington Libraries

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> *SILS Information Bulletin * *

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> *Number: 08-09 **Imagery for Everyone… *

> */Timeline Set to Release E ntire USGS Landsat Archive at No Charge. /*

> *Date: & nbsp;April 23, 2008*

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> RESTON, VA – The USGS Lan dsat archive is an unequaled 35-year record 

> of the Earth’s surface that is valuable for a broad range of uses, 

> ranging from climate change science to forest management to emergency 

> response, plus countless other user appli cations. Under a transition 

> toward a National Land Imaging Program sponsored by the Secretary of 

> the Interior, the USGS is pursuing an aggressive schedu le to provide 

> users with electronic access to any Landsat scene held in the 

> USGS-managed national archive of global scenes dating back to Landsat 

> 1, launched in 1972. By February 2009, any archive scene selected by a 

> user – with no restriction on cloud cover – will be processed 

> automatically to a standard product recipe, using such parameters as 

> the Universe Transve rse Mercator projection, and staged for 

> electronic retrieval. In addition, newly acquired scenes meeting a 

> cloud cover threshold of 20% or below will be processed to the 

> standard recipe and placed on line for at least six months, after 

> which they will remain available for selection from the archi ve.

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> Newly acquired, minimally cloudy Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper 

> Plus (ETM+) data covering North America and Africa are already being 

> distributed by the USGS over the Internet at no charge, with expansion 

> to full global coverage of incoming Landsat 7 data to be completed by 

> July 2008 (see timeline below). The full archive of historical Landsat 

> 7 ETM+ data acquired by the USGS since launch in 1999 will become 

> available for selection and downloading by the end of September 2008. 

> At that time, all Landsat 7 data purchasing options from the USGS, 

> wherein users pay for on-demand processing to various parame ters will 

> be discontinued.

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> By the end of December of 2008, both incoming Landsat 5 Thematic 

> Mapper (TM) data and all Landsat 5 TM data acquired by the USGS since 

> launch (1984) will become available, with all Landsat 4 TM (1982-1985) 

> and Landsat 1-5 Multi-Spectral Scanner (MSS) (1972-1994) data becoming 

> available by the end of January 2009. All Landsat data purchasing 

> options from the USGS will be discontinued by Febru ary 2009, once the 

> entire Landsat archive can be accessed at no charge.

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> Landsat scenes can be previewed and downloaded using the USGS Global 

> Visualization Viewer at: /_http://glovis.us gs.gov_/ [under “Select 

> Collection” choose Landsat archive: L7 SLC-off ( 2003-present)]. 

> Scenes can also be selected using the USGS Earth Explorer tool at 

> _http://earth explorer.usgs.gov_ [under “Select Your Dataset” choose 

> Landsat Archive: L7 SLC-off (2003-present)]. For further information 

> on Landsat satellites and products, see _http://landsat.us gs.gov_

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> For further information on USGS Land Remote Sensing please visit our 

> website: _landremotesensing at usgs.gov_

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> Sheryle Girk-Jackson 303 202 41 76, FAX 303 202 4633, email: 

> _sjjackson at usgs.gov_

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> Sheryle J. Girk-Jackson

> Technical Information Specialist/Business Acquisitions

> USGS/ESIC

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	Harvey Greenberg
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