USGS Fact Sheet 2013–3117: Landsat Surface Reflectance Climate Data Records

Landsat Surface Reflectance Climate Data Records

Abstract

Landsat Surface Reflectance Climate Data Records (CDRs) are high level Landsat data products that support land surface change studies. Climate Data Records, as defined by the National Research Council, are a time series of measurements with sufficient length, consistency, and continuity to identify climate variability and change. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is using the valuable 40-year Landsat archive to create CDRs that can be used to document changes to Earth’s terrestrial environment.

First posted February 4, 2014

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U.S. Geological Survey, 2014, Landsat Surface Reflectance Climate Data Records: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2013–3117, 1 p., https://dx.doi.org/10.3133/fs20133117.

ISSN 2329-6932 (online)