Landsat Satellite Imagery for the United State and Russia

With the launch of Landsat 7, data are no longer copyright protected and these data may be freely distributed. EOS-WEBSTER, in an effort to provide access to earth science data, has designed an interim system to make Landsat data that we have in our database available to other users. In many cases, in-house researchers have acquired these data directly from the USGS EROS Data Center (EDC) for their research projects. They have provided copies of their data to EOS-WEBSTER for distribution to a wide audience. Boreal Russian Landsat data are also being housed.

Therefore, our data holdings come from several different sources and can have a variety of different processing levels associated with them. We have attempted to document, to the best of our ability, the processing steps each Landsat scene has been through. Our data are currently served in two output formats: BSQ and ERDAS Imagine, and three different spectral types (when available): multispectral, panchromatic, and thermal. A header file is provided with each ordered image giving the specifics of the image.

Please refer to the references to learn more about Landsat and the data this satellite acquires. We hope to add more data as it becomes available to EOS-WEBSTER. If you have any Landsat data, which you are willing to share, EOS-WEBSTER would like to provide access to it to a broad audience by adding it to our database. Landsat 7 data and Landsat 5 data older than 10 years can be distributed without copyright restrictions. Please contact our User Services Personnel if you would like to distribute your Landsat data, or other earth science products, via EOS-WEBSTER's FREE data distribution mechanism.

See more detailed information regarding these data and data access privilages at "http://eos-earthdata.sr.unh.edu/" or contact the Data Center Contact above.