Band Combination of Landsat 8 Earth-observing Satellite Images

International Centre for Integrated Mountain DevelopmentKathmandu, Nepal

Image Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Kabir Uddin, GIS and RS AnalystEmail: [email protected] [email protected]

Band Combination of Landsat 8 Earth-observing satellite Images

Landsat 8

The Landsat program offers the longest continuous global record of the Earth’s surface

In 1975, NASA Administrator Dr. James Fletcher predicted that if one space age development would save the world, it would be Landsat and its successor satellites. Since the early 1970s, Landsat has continuously and consistently archived images of Earth

On Feb. 11, 2013, NASA launched the Landsat 8 Earth-observing satellite

Landsat 8 officially began normal operations on May 30, 2013

Landsat 8 has collected about 400 scenes of the Earth’s surface per day.

Each of these scenes covers an area of about 185 by 185 kilometers

Band Band Name

Spectral range (nm)

Use of data

Resolution

1 New Deep Blue 433-453 Aerosol/coastal zone 30 m

2 Blue 450-515 Pigments/scatter/coastal

30 m(TM

heritage bands)

3 Green 525-600 Pigments/coastal

4 Red 630-680 Pigments/coastal

5 NIR 845-885 Foliage/coastal

6 SWIR 2 1560-1660 Foliage

7 SWIR 3 2100-2300 Minerals/litter/no scatter

8 PAN 500-680 Image sharpening 15 m

9 SWIR 1360-1390 Cirrus cloud detection 30 m

Landsat 8 Bands

Landsat 8 enhancement

Landsat 8 images normally looks hazy before processing.

Please have a look of Landsat 8 images of Inle Lake before and after processing.

Landsat 8 band combinations

Natural Color: 4,3,2


Color Infrared:5,4,3


False Color: 6,5,4


False Color: 7,6,4

Landsat 8 Bands

False Color: 7,5,3

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Band Combination of Landsat 8 Earth-observing Satellite Images