ECCOE Landsat Quarterly Calibration and Validation Report—Quarter 4, 2024

Open-File Report 2025-1036
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Executive Summary 

The U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Calibration and Validation (Cal/Val) Center of Excellence focuses on improving the accuracy, precision, calibration, and product quality of remote-sensing data, leveraging years of multiscale optical system geometric and radiometric calibration and characterization experience. The Earth Resources Observation and Science Cal/Val Center of Excellence Landsat Cal/Val Team continually monitors the geometric and radiometric performance of active Landsat missions and makes calibration adjustments, as needed, to maintain data quality at the highest level.

This report provides observed geometric and radiometric analysis results for Landsats 8 and 9 for quarter 4 (October–December) of 2024. All data used to compile the Cal/Val analysis results presented in this report are freely available from the U.S. Geological Survey EarthExplorer website: https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov.

Suggested Citation

Haque, M.O., Hasan, M.N., Shrestha, A., Rengarajan, R., Lubke, M., Steinwand, D., Bresnahan, P., Shaw, J.L., Ruslander, K., Micijevic, E., Choate, M.J., Anderson, C., Clauson, J., Thome, K., Kaita, E., Levy, R., Miller, J., Ding, L., and Teixeira Pinto, C., 2025, ECCOE Landsat quarterly Calibration and Validation report—Quarter 4, 2024: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2025–1036, 56 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20251036.

ISSN: 2331-1258 (online)

Table of Contents

  • Executive Summary
  • Introduction
  • Landsat 9 Radiometric Performance Summary
  • Landsat 9 Geometric Performance Summary
  • Landsat 8 Radiometric Performance Summary
  • Landsat 8 Geometric Performance Summary
  • Quarterly Level 2 Validation Results
  • Summary
  • References Cited
Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title ECCOE Landsat quarterly Calibration and Validation report—Quarter 4, 2024
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 2025-1036
DOI 10.3133/ofr20251036
Publication Date July 02, 2025
Year Published 2025
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher location Reston, VA
Contributing office(s) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center
Description Report: viii, 56 p.; Dataset
Online Only (Y/N) Y
Additional Online Files (Y/N) N
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