Landsat-8: Science and product vision for terrestrial global change research

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 145, Issue , 2014, Pages 154-172

  Roy, D P ^a   Wulder, M A ^b   Loveland, T R ^c   C E , Woodcock ^d   Allen, R G ^e   Anderson, M C ^f   Helder, D ^g   Irons, J R ^h   Johnson, D M ⁱ   Kennedy, R ^d   Scambos, T A ^j   Schaaf, C B ^k   Schott, J R ^l   Sheng, Y ^m   Vermote, E F ^h   Belward, A S ⁿ   Bindschadler, R ^h   Cohen, W B ^o   Gao, F ^f   Hipple, J D ^p   Hostert, P ^q   Huntington, J ^r   Justice, C O ^s   Kilic, A ^t   Kovalskyy, V ^a   Lee, Z P ^k   Lymburner, L ^u   Masek, J G ^h   McCorkel, J ^h   Shuai, Y ^h   Trezza, R ^e   Vogelmann, J ^c   Wynne, R H ^v   Zhu, Z ^d   more..

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e University of Idaho   (United States)

^f AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^g South Dakota State University   (United States)

^h NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ Research and Development Division   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^l ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁿ JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^o USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^p U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^q HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^r DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^u GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^v VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Landsat 8; Landsat Science Team; OLI; TIRS

Indexed keywords

LANDSAT; MISSION REQUIREMENTS; OLI; RADIOMETRIC CHARACTERIZATION; RADIOMETRIC RESOLUTION; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TIRS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; NASA; RADIOMETRY; SENSORS;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

ALBEDO; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; DISTURBANCE; GLOBAL CHANGE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT; POLAR REGION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SATELLITE MISSION; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84896818071     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.02.001     Document Type: Article

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