Abstract

The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat-8 represents a generational change from heritage Landsat instruments in its design, while it maintains data continuity with the 40+ year Landsat data archive. It preserves the 30-m ground sample distance, 185-km swath width and VIS/NIR/SWIR spectral bands. Furthermore, data continuity resulted from extensive pre-launch and on-orbit calibration and characterization campaigns. This paper presents an overview of the OLI design, the pre-launch characterization results and the on-orbit performance.

Details

Title
Landsat-8 Operational Land Imager Design, Characterization and Performance
Author
Knight, Edward J; Kvaran, Geir
Pages
10286-10305
Publication year
2014
Publication date
2014
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
20724292
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
1635744227
Copyright
Copyright MDPI AG 2014