LANDSAT TM Data held by the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil

INPE's only receiving station for Landsat TM is located in Cuiaba, MT
(geographic coordinates approx. 15.5S/56.0W). Data were always
acquired in a routine fashion, initially over Brazil only, with
extension to the whole range in 1987. A few gaps exist, some of them
several months long, related mostly to station downtimes caused by
lightning.

The TM tapes recorded at Cuiaba are air shipped to the processing and
distribution center in Cachoeira Paulista, SP, where they are
kept. The holdings are estimated to be around 70,000 scenes (or
500,000 images, counting individually each of the seven spectral
bands). About 14,000 scenes have been processed to black-and-white or
color photographic originals and can be reproduced as products quicker
than unprocessed ones. No copies are kept from delivered digital
products.

Requests for products and for image search listings are handled
directly by the processing center (listed at the Data Center entry),
through contacts by mail, phone or fax. No online remote access is
available to the moment, although plans exist to implement it,
including the International Directory protocols. No firm date is
speculated for that, but hopes are that it can be made before 1998.
Information about costs, delivery time and available formats can be
requested at the same address.