Imagery credits

Landsat resolves roughly thirty metres per pixel — city blocks, coastlines, infrastructure. These frames demonstrate how a mission is composed, not what a tasked capture resolves. A commissioned mission is captured at sub-metre resolution.

They are the mission archive, the landing page and the format examples. They are not customer captures, and none of them was made to order: the oldest was acquired in 1986.

A commissioned mission is captured to order and is not drawn from this archive. Until its own frame is downlinked, a mission file shows no frame at all.

• LOS ANGELES — UNITED STATES34.0522, -118.2437

  LANDSAT + SRTM · 2400×1017 · ACQUIRED 04.05.2001

  http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03376

  Landsat frame acquired 04.05.2001, draped over SRTM elevation collected in February 2000. Both dates are stated on the source record for PIA03376.

  Source record
• PARIS — FRANCE48.8566, 2.3522

  LANDSAT-5 / TM · 2400×2530 · ACQUIRED 16.07.2006

  http://glovis.usgs.gov/ image ID LT51990262006197KIS00

  Acquisition date on the source record, and encoded in scene ID LT51990262006197KIS00 — 2006, day 197.

  Source record
• BERLIN — GERMANY52.5200, 13.4050

  LANDSAT-5 / TM · 2400×1388 · ACQUIRED 31.07.1986

  Berlin 1986 07 31

  Source record: “Berlin, Germany 31 July 1986. Image by Landsat 5 satellite.”

  Source record
• LAS VEGAS — UNITED STATES36.1699, -115.1398

  LANDSAT · 2400×1350 · ACQUIRED 2023

  50+ years of Landsat: Las Vegas

  The source is a Landsat time series running 1972–2023; the frame used here is its 2023 end state. No exact acquisition date is stated.

  Source record
• THAMES ESTUARY — UNITED KINGDOM51.5000, 0.7400

  LANDSAT-8 / OLI · 2400×1920 · ACQUIRED 28.04.2013

  http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=82844

  Acquisition date on the source record — NASA Earth Observatory image 82844.

  Source record
• SÃO PAULO — BRAZIL-23.5505, -46.6333

  LANDSAT-5 / TM · 2400×2091 · ACQUIRED 18.04.2010

  Wikimedia Commons/NASA

  Acquisition date on the source record, and encoded in scene IDs LT52190772010108CUB00 / LT52190762010108CUB00 — 2010, day 108.

  Source record
• RIO DE JANEIRO — BRAZIL-22.9068, -43.1729

  LANDSAT-5 / TM · 2400×1807 · ACQUIRED 09.05.2011

  Wikimedia Commons/NASA

  Acquisition date on the source record.

  Source record
• BUENOS AIRES — ARGENTINA-34.6037, -58.3816

  LANDSAT-5 / TM · 2400×2431 · ACQUIRED 21.08.2011

  http://edcsns17.cr.usgs.gov/NewEarthExplorer/ image ID LT52250842011233COA01

  Acquisition date on the source record, and encoded in scene ID LT52250842011233COA01 — 2011, day 233.

  Source record
• LISSE — NETHERLANDS52.2583, 4.5575

  LANDSAT-8 / OLI · 2400×1600 · ACQUIRED 21.04.2018

  https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92148/flower-power-in-the-netherlands

  Acquisition date on the source record — NASA Earth Observatory image 92148.

  Source record
• SEATTLE — UNITED STATES47.6062, -122.3321

  LANDSAT-7 / ETM+ · 1280×1280 · ACQUIRED 23.08.2014

  NASA Satellite Captures Super Bowl Cities – Seattle

  Source record: “Landsat 7 image of Seattle, Washington acquired August 23, 2014.”

  Source record
• CAPE TOWN — SOUTH AFRICA-33.9249, 18.4241

  LANDSAT + SRTM · 2184×1377 · ACQUIRED DATE NOT STATED

  8.727 MB TIFF ALSO AVAILABLE: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA04961 http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_186.html

  A Landsat frame draped over SRTM elevation (PIA04961). The source record dates the composite to February 2007 but does not say when the Landsat frame itself was acquired.

  Source record
• LENA DELTA — RUSSIAN FEDERATION72.5000, 126.5000

  LANDSAT-7 / ETM+ · 2400×2400 · ACQUIRED 27.02.2000

  http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_detail.php?id=3451 Visible Earth v1 ID: 18024 Credit: Image provided by the USGS EROS Data Center Satellite Systems Branch. This image is part of the ongoing Landsat Earth as Art series. This image was acquired by Landsat 7’s Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM+) sensor on 2000-02-27 (Visualization Date: 2002-08-19). (The Lena Delta can be found on Landsat 7 WRS Path 131 Row 8/9, center: 72.21, 126.15.)

  Source record: acquired by Landsat 7’s ETM+ sensor on 2000-02-27; the visualisation is dated 2002-08-19.

  Source record
• SAMARKAND — UZBEKISTAN39.6270, 66.9750

  LANDSAT-8 / OLI · 2400×2042 · ACQUIRED 25.10.2015

  http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ image ID LC81550322015298LGN00 and LC81550332015298LGN00

  Acquisition date on the source record, and encoded in scene IDs LC81550322015298LGN00 / LC81550332015298LGN00 — 2015, day 298.

  Source record