I.

Exploring Landsat 8
1. Describing Landsat 8 product by providing detail information about the issues below:
- Spectrum range
Is different colors although not necessarily a color visible to the human eye. Each range is called a
band,
- Spectral resolution and band width .
Band Number
m
Resolution
1
0.4330.453
30 m
2
0.4500.515
30 m
3
0.5250.600
30 m
4
0.6300.680
30 m
5
0.8450.885
30 m
6
1.5601.660
30 m
7
2.1002.300
30 m
8
0.5000.680
15 m
9
1.3601.390
30 m
10
10.6-11.2
100 m
11
11.5-12.5
100 m

- Spatial resolution

- Available Landsat 8 products

Currently, Landsat 8 collect data, each following a near-polar, sun-synchronous orbit on the Worldwide
Reference System (WRS-2). Each satellite has a 16-day revisit cycle, and their orbits are offset to provide
8-day repeat coverage.
Most acquired scenes are downlinked to the Landsat Ground Network and made available for download
within 24 hours of acquisition. Unique scenes downlinked to International Cooperators are also ingested
into the USGS global archive, and are made available upon receipt.
Landsat Level-1 standard data products are processed to standard parameters, and distributed as scaled
and calibrated digital numbers (DN). The DNs can be scaled to absolutely calibrated radiance or
reflectance values using metadata distributed with the product (see conversion algorithms for Landsat 8)
The Landsat Science Data Users Handbooks serve as a comprehensive resource for each of the
spacecraft, payloads, ground processing systems, and methodologies for using Landsat data in science
studies:
Landsat 8 Science Data Users Handbook
Landsat product generation is in transition to a collection management scheme. The goal is to create a
stable archive in which(1) sensors are cross- and absolutely-calibrated, (2) the georegistration of the
scenes is known and consistent, and (3) the product format is stable. Any product improvement that
would create a discontinuity within the archive will cause a new collection to be established and the
archive to be reprocessed to re-establish the stability of the archive. A Landsat Product Generation system
(LPGS) release, scheduled for 2016, will result in new products that will be designated as Collection 1.
Information about previous releases and plans will be provided on an upcoming Collection Management
webpage.
The sections below provide additional information Landsat Level-1 standard data products.
2. What are the specialized uses of each spectral band?
3. What are the common band combinations of Landsat 8?
Heres a rundown of some common band combinations applied to Landsat 8, displayed as a red, green, blue
(RGB):

Natural Color
False Color (urban)
Color Infrared (vegetation)
Agriculture
Atmospheric Penetration
Healthy Vegetation
Land/Water
Natural With Atmospheric Removal

4
7
5
6
7
5
5
7

3
6
4
5
6
6
6
5

2
4
3
2
5
2
4
3