Landsat 8

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Landsat 8 is an Earth observation satellite in the long-running Landsat program, providing high-resolution multispectral imagery for environmental monitoring, land use analysis, and climate research.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Earth observation satellite
Landsat program satellite
artificial satellite
abbreviation OLI NERFINISHED
TIRS NERFINISHED
alsoKnownAs Landsat Data Continuity Mission NERFINISHED
altitudeMean 705 kilometers
COSPARId 2013-008A
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
dataDownlinkBand S-band
X-band
dataPolicy free and open access
dataProvider Amazon Web Services Public Dataset NERFINISHED
USGS EarthExplorer NERFINISHED
USGS GloVis NERFINISHED
followedBy Landsat 9 NERFINISHED
imageResolutionMultispectral 30 meters
imageResolutionPanchromatic 15 meters
imageResolutionThermal 100 meters
inclination 98.2 degrees
launchContractor United Launch Alliance NERFINISHED
launchDate 2013-02-11
launchSite Space Launch Complex 3E NERFINISHED
Vandenberg Air Force Base NERFINISHED
launchVehicle Atlas V 401 NERFINISHED
localTimeOfDescendingNode 10:00
manufacturer Orbital Sciences Corporation NERFINISHED
missionDurationDesign 5 years
missionType Earth observation
NORADId 39084
operator NASA
United States Geological Survey NERFINISHED
orbitalPeriod 99 minutes
orbitRegime Low Earth orbit NERFINISHED
orbitType Sun-synchronous orbit
payloadInstrument Operational Land Imager NERFINISHED
Thermal Infrared Sensor NERFINISHED
power approximately 3000 watts
primaryApplication agricultural monitoring
climate research
disaster monitoring
environmental monitoring
forest monitoring
land use analysis
water resources management
program Landsat program NERFINISHED
repeatCycle 16 days
spacecraftBus Landsat Data Continuity Mission bus NERFINISHED
spectralBandsOLI 9
spectralBandsTIRS 2
successorOf Landsat 7 NERFINISHED
swathWidth 185 kilometers

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Landsat 9 contemporaryWith Landsat 8
Thermal Infrared Sensor dataProduct Landsat 8
this entity surface form: Landsat 8 TIRS Level-1
Landsat 7 followedBy Landsat 8
USGS EarthExplorer includesCollection Landsat 8
this entity surface form: Landsat 8 OLI/TIRS
Operational Land Imager locatedOn Landsat 8
this entity surface form: Landsat 8 satellite platform
Thermal Infrared Sensor mission Landsat 8
this entity surface form: Landsat Data Continuity Mission
Atlas V notablePayload Landsat 8
Operational Land Imager partOf Landsat 8
Landsat 5 successor Landsat 8