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.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Landsat 8 canonical | 6 |
| Landsat 8 OLI/TIRS | 1 |
| Landsat 8 TIRS Level-1 | 1 |
| Landsat 8 satellite platform | 1 |
| Landsat Data Continuity Mission | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5458685 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Landsat 8 Context triple: [Atlas V, notablePayload, Landsat 8]
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Landsat 9
Landsat 9 is a NASA and USGS Earth observation satellite that continues the decades-long Landsat program by collecting high-resolution multispectral imagery to monitor and study changes on the planet’s surface.
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B.
Landsat 7
Landsat 7 is a NASA Earth observation satellite launched in 1999 that provides multispectral imagery for environmental monitoring, land use analysis, and global change research.
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C.
Operational Land Imager
The Operational Land Imager is a multispectral imaging sensor on Landsat 8 designed to capture high-resolution, calibrated images of Earth’s land surfaces for environmental monitoring and land-use analysis.
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D.
Landsat satellites
Landsat satellites are a series of Earth-observing spacecraft that provide long-term, continuous multispectral imagery used worldwide for environmental monitoring, land-use mapping, and resource management.
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E.
Landsat 5
Landsat 5 was a long-lived Earth observation satellite that provided decades of multispectral imagery for environmental monitoring and land-use analysis.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Landsat 8 Target entity description: 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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A.
Landsat 9
Landsat 9 is a NASA and USGS Earth observation satellite that continues the decades-long Landsat program by collecting high-resolution multispectral imagery to monitor and study changes on the planet’s surface.
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B.
Landsat 7
Landsat 7 is a NASA Earth observation satellite launched in 1999 that provides multispectral imagery for environmental monitoring, land use analysis, and global change research.
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C.
Operational Land Imager
The Operational Land Imager is a multispectral imaging sensor on Landsat 8 designed to capture high-resolution, calibrated images of Earth’s land surfaces for environmental monitoring and land-use analysis.
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D.
Landsat satellites
Landsat satellites are a series of Earth-observing spacecraft that provide long-term, continuous multispectral imagery used worldwide for environmental monitoring, land-use mapping, and resource management.
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E.
Landsat 5
Landsat 5 was a long-lived Earth observation satellite that provided decades of multispectral imagery for environmental monitoring and land-use analysis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Earth observation satellite
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Landsat program satellite ⓘ artificial satellite ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
OLI
NERFINISHED
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TIRS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Landsat Data Continuity Mission NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| altitudeMean | 705 kilometers ⓘ |
| COSPARId | 2013-008A ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| dataDownlinkBand |
S-band
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X-band ⓘ |
| dataPolicy | free and open access ⓘ |
| dataProvider |
Amazon Web Services Public Dataset
NERFINISHED
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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
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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
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United States Geological Survey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orbitalPeriod | 99 minutes ⓘ |
| orbitRegime | Low Earth orbit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orbitType | Sun-synchronous orbit ⓘ |
| payloadInstrument |
Operational Land Imager
NERFINISHED
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Thermal Infrared Sensor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| power | approximately 3000 watts ⓘ |
| primaryApplication |
agricultural monitoring
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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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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: Landsat 8 Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (10)
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