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Landsat Project -  information on the latest launch, on future plans, and/or the history leading up to Landsat 9

Abstract: The joint USGS/NASA Landsat mission just surpassed its 50-year anniversary in July 2022. The mission is arguably at its most stable state in its long history, and its outlook and continuity are strong given the recent launch of Landsat 9, and with the next Landsat mission preparations underway. In late 2020, the USGS reprocessed the global Landsat archive into a new Landsat Collection 2 using an advanced virtual cloud processing architecture, where users now have access to calibrated, standard, analysis ready geophysical surface reflectance and surface temperature data products on a global basis. The USGS is also producing tiled Landsat 4-9 analysis-ready data (ARD) for the continental United States, Alaska, and Hawaii and operationally generating fractional snow-covered area, burned area, and dynamic surface water extent science products that qualify as Essential Climate Variables (ECVs). In addition, the USGS just released new provisional Landsat 8/9 Aquatic Reflectance and Landsat 4-9 Evapotranspiration science products that are available on-demand through the EROS Science Processing Architecture (ESPA) portal. Landsat 9 commissioning was completed in January 2022 after a successful launch on September 21, 2022, from Vandenburg Space Force Base in California. NASA handed over Landsat 9 to the USGS for operations in August 2022 and its science data products were released in February 2022. Each one of these state of Landsat topics and more will be discussed in greater detail during the presentation.

Dr. Christopher (‘Chris’) Crawford is a Research Physical Scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) at the Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Prior to joining the USGS, Dr. Crawford worked at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center as NASA Postdoctoral Fellow and Postdoctoral Research Associate with the University of Maryland. Dr. Crawford received his Ph.D. in 2013 from the Department of Geography at the University of Minnesota where he was a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellow. Dr. Crawford’s research interests include Earth remote sensing applications in the fields of cryosphere and aquatic science, radiometric calibration, ground, airborne, and spaceborne imaging spectroscopy, and climate variability and change. Dr. Crawford is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Geospatial Sciences at South Dakota State University.

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Christopher J Crawford, PhD

Affiliated Adjunct Associate Professor | Graduate Faculty Member

Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence (GSCE) - SDSU

Research Scientist | Landsat 1-9 Project Scientist | Landsat 7/8/9 Data Acquisition Manager 

Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center - USGS