The Landsat Program - History
Landsat 1 • Landsat 2 • Landsat 3 • Landsat 4 • Landsat 5 • Landsat 6 • Landsat 7 • LDCM
Landsat Data Continuity Mission
Design concept of LDCM's Operational Land Imager instrument. Image credit: Ball Aerospace & Technology Corp
On December 23, 2005, Dr. John Marburger III, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) signed a memorandum that directs NASA to acquire a single "free-flyer" spacecraft for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM).
This memorandum supercedes the August 2004 memorandum that directed federal agencies to put a Landsat-type sensor on-board the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS).
On July 16, 2007, Ball Aerospace was selected as the builder for the LDCM instrument, the Operational Land Imager (OLI).
For the latest information about the LDCM mission, please visit the LDCM website.
+ Oct. 2007 article: The Landsat Data Continuity Mission: Extending the Longest Legacy of Global Land Observation
The OLI will collect data for two new bands, a coastal band and a cirrus band, as well as the heritage Landsat multispectral bands. Additionally, the bandwidth has been refined for six of the heritage bands. Graphic created by L.Rocchio & J.Barsi.
More History
- Landsat 1
- Landsat 2
- Landsat 3
- Landsat 4
- Landsat 5
- Landsat 6
- Landsat 7
- Landsat Data Continuity Mission
- Landsat timeline
Related Websites
- Learn about the Landsat Legacy project
