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Landsat and Thermal Infrared Imaging

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Arvidson, Terry, Barsi, Julia, Jhabvala, Murzy, and Reuter, Dennis
Goddard Space Flight Center

The purpose of this chapter is to describe the collection of thermal images by Landsat sensors already on orbit and to introduce the new thermal sensor to be launched in 2013. The chapter describes the thematic mapper (TM) and enhanced thematic mapper plus (ETM+) sensors, the calibration of their thermal bands, and the design and prelaunch calibration of the new thermal infrared sensor (TIRS).


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