The Landsat Data Continuity Mission Operational Land Imager (OLI) sensor

The Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) is being developed by NASA and USGS and is currently planned for launch in January 2013 [1]. Once on-orbit and checked out, it will be operated by USGS and officially named Landsat-8. Two sensors will be on LDCM: the Operational Land Imager (OLI), which has been built and delivered by Ball Aerospace & Technology Corp (BATC) and the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS)[2], which was built and delivered by Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). The OLI covers the Visible, Near-IR (NIR) and Short-Wave Infrared (SWIR) parts of the spectrum; TIRS covers the Thermal Infrared (TIR). This paper discusses only the OLI instrument and its pre-launch characterization; a companion paper covers TIRS.

[1]  James R. Irons,et al.  An overview of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission , 2010, Defense + Commercial Sensing.

[2]  Jason Budinoff,et al.  The Thermal Infrared Sensor on the Landsat Data Continuity Mission , 2010, 2010 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium.

[3]  Matthew Montanaro,et al.  The Operational Land Imager (OLI) and the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) on the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) , 2011, Defense + Commercial Sensing.