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LANDSAT ORTHORECTIFIED ETM+ IMAGERY (LANDSAT_ORTHO_ETM+) PRODUCT README

TABLE OF CONTENTS


Compact Disc Organization

Naming Convention

File Conventions are compliant with ISO-9660 Level-1 standards (8.3 file naming convention) and also compliant with ISO-9660 standards with Joliet extensions (permits file names greater than 8.3 and permits the use of lowercase characters).


File Descriptions

The granules on the LANDSAT_ORTHO_ETM+ compact disc contains README files, an Object Description Language metadata file, a Sample FGDC Compliant Landsat-7 ETM+ Metadata file, Landsat image files, and a browse file. The number of image files per granule may vary.

README.TXT: Self explanatory.

README.PDF: Self explanatory.

Sample FGDC Compliant Landsat-7 ETM+ Metadata: Self explanatory.

METADATA: ODL: Self explanatory.

IMAGE: Bands 1 through 8: Self explanatory.

BROWSE: Image of the scene ordered.

File Naming Convention (Browse, Metadata, and Image Files):

/pppprrrr_isyyyymmdd_zzx_nnnx

EXAMPLE:     /p158r75_7t20000702_z58_nn62

pppp: Path Indicator (4 characters)
p = path
Example:       p158

rrrr: Row Indicator (4 character maximum, not zero filled)
r = row
Example:       r75

_: Delimiter (1 character)

i: Instrument Indicator (1 character)
Values:
7 = Landsat-7

s: Sensor Type (1 character: where valid parameters are "t", "p" and "k")
Values:
t = 28.5 multi-spectral data (6 bands)
p = 14.25 meter pan data (1 band)
k = 57 meter thermal data (2 bands)

yyyymmdd: Acquisition Date (8 characters)
Values:
y = Year
m = Month
d = Day
Example:       20000702

_: Delimiter (1 character)

z: UTM Zone Indicator (1character)
Values:
z = indicator

zx: UTM Zone Number (1-3 characters, not zero filled)
Example:       58

_: Delimiter (1 character)
nn: Resampling Method (2 characters)
Values:
nn = Nearest Neighbor

nx: Band contained in the file (2 characters)
Values: (Reflects band numbers as 2 digits)
10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 61, 62, 70, 80
Example:       62

Sample file name in its entirety reads as follows:
/p158r75_7t20000702_z58_nn62

Data were compiled through NASA's Commercial Remote Sensing Program; this program is a cooperative effort between NASA and the commercial remote sensing community to provide users with access to quality-screened, high-resolution satellite images with global coverage over the Earth's land masses.   The resulting Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) data set contains orthorectified ETM+ sensor data from the Landsat-7 satellite.  Only the ETM+ images most closely meeting a specific set of criteria, including acquisition date, cloud percentage, data quality parameters, and best available phenology, were considered for the collection.  The Landsat ETM+ data were provided by the USGS and orthorectified through a NASA contract with Earth Satellite Corporation, Rockville, Maryland, and are part of NASA's Scientific Data Purchase program, developed in response to the President's Space Policy.

Data Set Characteristics

Approximately 8,500 Landsat ETM+ images were selected. These circa year 2000 scenes were acquired between 1999 and 2001, and have been orthorectified so as to tightly co-register with the earlier circa 1990 global Landsat TM coverage.  NOTE: In both the circa 1990 and circa 2000 data sets, the temporal dates of individual scenes may vary between 1-3 years of the 1990/2000 baseline.) These images were either cloud-free or contained minimal cloud cover. In addition, only ETM+ images with a high quality ranking in regards to the possible presence of errors such as missing scans or saturated bands were selected. It was important to collect data during periods of peak greenness so NASA adopted an approach for image selection that was based upon a data set containing global 1-kilometer advanced very high-resolution radiometer Normalized Difference Vegetation Index data. It was sometimes difficult for NASA to obtain clear images during time frames of peak greenness, resulting in some image substitution from other times of the year.

Procedures

Landsat ETM+ data are orthorectified using existing orthorectified TM data as horizontal control.  Pixel cross-correlation is used to pass the control from the earlier orthorectified TM data to the Landsat ETM+.  A patented Landsat large block triangulation procedure is used to perform a photogrammetric adjustment of each individual Landsat ETM+ scene; data are then placed into a UTM / WGS84 map projection.  All bands are individually re-sampled, using a nearest neighbor algorithm.  The result is a final image map product with a Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) of better than 50 meters in positional accuracy.

Restrictions

No restrictions.

USGS Contact

Customer Services
U.S. Geological Survey
Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS)
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Sioux Falls, SD 57198-0001
Tel: 800-252-4547
Tel: 605-594-6151
TDD: 605-594-6933
Fax: 605-594-6589
Email: custserv@usgs.gov

Business Hours: Monday thru Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., central time

References

Kalluri, Satya, Grant, Denelle, Tucker, Compton, Policelli, Fritz, Dykstra, Jon, and Bearden, Phil, 2000, NASA creates global archive of ortho-rectified Landsat data: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 81, no. 50, p. 609, 617-618.

Dykstra, Jon D., Jan/Feb 2001, The GeoCover-Ortho Program: Covering the Entire Earth's Landmass with 14,000 Landsat Images; GEO INFORMATICS, p. 26-29. Reference is available in PDF format.

Appendices

Approximate File Sizes:


FILE TYPE			    FILE SIZE: (kilobytes)
Metadata File: ODL		6
Image File: Band 1		56,599
Image File: Band 2		56,599
Image File: Band 3		56,599
Image File: Band 4		56,599
Image File: Band 5		56,599
Image File: Band 61	14,821
Image File: Band 62	14,821
Image File: Band 7		56,599
Image File: Band 8		223,766
Browse File:			24
ReadMe File: text		11
ReadMe File: pdf		107


Sample FGDC Compliant Landsat-7 ETM+ Metadata:


GROUP = METADATA_FILE
	PRODUCT_CREATION_TIME = 2002-04-24T13:04:35Z
	PRODUCT_FILE_SIZE = 579.1
	GROUP = ORTHO_PRODUCT_METADATA
		SPACECRAFT_ID = "Landsat7"
		SENSOR_ID = "ETM+" 
		ACQUISITION_DATE = 2001-07-07
		WRS_PATH = 098
		WRS_ROW = 064
		SCENE_CENTER_LAT = -5.7797315 
		SCENE_CENTER_LON = +144.2813318  
		SCENE_UL_CORNER_LAT = -4.8447464 
		SCENE_UL_CORNER_LON = +143.6397641
		SCENE_UR_CORNER_LAT = -5.0820706
		SCENE_UR_CORNER_LON = +145.2748028
		SCENE_LL_CORNER_LAT = -6.4761725
		SCENE_LL_CORNER_LON = +143.2873739
		SCENE_LR_CORNER_LAT = -6.7132722 
		SCENE_LR_CORNER_LON = +144.9230946
		SCENE_UL_CORNER_MAPX = 127204.754
		SCENE_UL_CORNER_MAPY = -536426.888
		SCENE_UR_CORNER_MAPX = 308749.754 
		SCENE_UR_CORNER_MAPY = -561991.388
		SCENE_LL_CORNER_MAPX = 89214.254
		SCENE_LL_CORNER_MAPY = -717344.888
		SCENE_LR_CORNER_MAPX = 270417.254
		SCENE_LR_CORNER_MAPY = -742538.888
		BAND1_FILE_NAME = "p098r064_7t20010707_z55_nn10.tif"
		BAND2_FILE_NAME = "p098r064_7t20010707_z55_nn20.tif"
		BAND3_FILE_NAME = "p098r064_7t20010707_z55_nn30.tif"
		BAND4_FILE_NAME = "p098r064_7t20010707_z55_nn40.tif"
		BAND5_FILE_NAME = "p098r064_7t20010707_z55_nn50.tif"
		BAND61_FILE_NAME = "p098r064_7k20010707_z55_nn61.tif"
		BAND62_FILE_NAME = "p098r064_7k20010707_z55_nn62.tif"
		BAND7_FILE_NAME = "p098r064_7t20010707_z55_nn70.tif"
		BAND8_FILE_NAME = "p098r064_7p20010707_z55_nn80.tif"
		GROUP = PROJECTION_PARAMETERS 
			REFERENCE_DATUM = "WGS84"
			REFERENCE_ELLIPSOID = "WGS84"
			GRID_CELL_SIZE_PAN = 14.250
			GRID_CELL_SIZE_THM = 57.000
			GRID_CELL_SIZE_REF = 28.500
			ORIENTATION = "NUP"
			RESAMPLING_OPTION = "NN"
			MAP_PROJECTION = "UTM"
		END_GROUP = PROJECTION_PARAMETERS 
		GROUP = UTM_PARAMETERS 
			ZONE_NUMBER = +55
		END_GROUP = UTM_PARAMETERS 
		SUN_AZIMUTH = 46.3969226
		SUN_ELEVATION = 47.9945595
		QA_PERCENT_MISSING_DATA = 000
		CLOUD_COVER = 000
		PRODUCT_SAMPLES_PAN = 15582
		PRODUCT_LINES_PAN = 14632
		PRODUCT_SAMPLES_REF = 7791
		PRODUCT_LINES_REF = 7316
		PRODUCT_SAMPLES_THM = 3895
		PRODUCT_LINES_THM = 3658
		OUTPUT_FORMAT = "GEOTIFF"
	END_GROUP = ORTHO_PRODUCT_METADATA
	GROUP = L1G_PRODUCT_METADATA
		BAND_COMBINATION = "123456678"
		CPF_FILE_NAME = "L7CPF20010701_20010930_04"
		GROUP = MIN_MAX_RADIANCE 
			LMAX_BAND1 = 191.600
			LMIN_BAND1 = -6.200
			LMAX_BAND2 = 196.500
			LMIN_BAND2 = -6.400
			LMAX_BAND3 = 152.900
			LMIN_BAND3 = -5.000
			LMAX_BAND4 = 241.100
			LMIN_BAND4 = -5.100
			LMAX_BAND5 = 31.060
			LMIN_BAND5 = -1.000
			LMAX_BAND61 = 17.040
			LMIN_BAND61 = 0.000
			LMAX_BAND62 = 12.650
			LMIN_BAND62 = 3.200
			LMAX_BAND7 = 10.800
			LMIN_BAND7 = -0.350
			LMAX_BAND8 = 243.100
			LMIN_BAND8 = -4.700
		END_GROUP = MIN_MAX_RADIANCE
		GROUP = MIN_MAX_PIXEL_VALUE
			QCALMAX_BAND1 = 255.0
			QCALMIN_BAND1 = 1.0
			QCALMAX_BAND2 = 255.0
			QCALMIN_BAND2 = 1.0
			QCALMAX_BAND3 = 255.0
			QCALMIN_BAND3 = 1.0
			QCALMAX_BAND4 = 255.0
			QCALMIN_BAND4 = 1.0
			QCALMAX_BAND5 = 255.0
			QCALMIN_BAND5 = 1.0
			QCALMAX_BAND61 = 255.0
			QCALMIN_BAND61 = 1.0
			QCALMAX_BAND62 = 255.0
			QCALMIN_BAND62 = 1.0
			QCALMAX_BAND7 = 255.0
			QCALMIN_BAND7 = 1.0 
			QCALMAX_BAND8 = 255.0
			QCALMIN_BAND8 = 1.0
		END_GROUP = MIN_MAX_PIXEL_VALUE
		GROUP = PRODUCT_PARAMETERS 
			CORRECTION_METHOD_GAIN_BAND1 = "CPF"
			CORRECTION_METHOD_GAIN_BAND2 = "CPF"
			CORRECTION_METHOD_GAIN_BAND3 = "CPF"
			CORRECTION_METHOD_GAIN_BAND4 = "CPF"
			CORRECTION_METHOD_GAIN_BAND5 = "CPF"
			CORRECTION_METHOD_GAIN_BAND61 = "CPF"
			CORRECTION_METHOD_GAIN_BAND62 = "CPF"
			CORRECTION_METHOD_GAIN_BAND7 = "CPF"
			CORRECTION_METHOD_GAIN_BAND8 = "CPF"
			CORRECTION_METHOD_BIAS = "IC"
			BAND1_GAIN = "H"
			BAND2_GAIN = "H"
			BAND3_GAIN = "H"
			BAND4_GAIN = "L"
			BAND5_GAIN = "H"
			BAND6_GAIN1 = "L"
			BAND6_GAIN2 = "H"
			BAND7_GAIN = "H"
			BAND8_GAIN = "L"
			BAND1_GAIN_CHANGE = "0"
			BAND2_GAIN_CHANGE = "0"
			BAND3_GAIN_CHANGE = "0"
			BAND4_GAIN_CHANGE = "0"
			BAND5_GAIN_CHANGE = "0"
			BAND6_GAIN_CHANGE1 = 
			BAND6_GAIN_CHANGE2 = 
			BAND7_GAIN_CHANGE = "0"
			BAND8_GAIN_CHANGE = "0"
			BAND1_SL_GAIN_CHANGE = "0"
			BAND2_SL_GAIN_CHANGE = "0"
			BAND3_SL_GAIN_CHANGE = "0"
			BAND4_SL_GAIN_CHANGE = "0"
			BAND5_SL_GAIN_CHANGE = "0"
			BAND6_SL_GAIN_CHANGE1 = "0"
			BAND6_SL_GAIN_CHANGE2 = "0"
			BAND7_SL_GAIN_CHANGE = "0"
			BAND8_SL_GAIN_CHANGE = "0"
		END_GROUP = PRODUCT_PARAMETERS
		GROUP = CORRECTIONS_APPLIED
			STRIPING_BAND1 = "NONE"
			STRIPING_BAND2 = "NONE"
			STRIPING_BAND3 = "NONE"
			STRIPING_BAND4 = "NONE"
			STRIPING_BAND5 = "NONE"
			STRIPING_BAND61 = "NONE"
			STRIPING_BAND62 = "NONE"
			STRIPING_BAND7 = "NONE"
			STRIPING_BAND8 = "NONE"
			BANDING = "N"
			COHERENT_NOISE = "N"
			MEMORY_EFFECT = "N"
			SCAN_CORRELATED_SHIFT = "N"
			DROPPED_LINES = "N"
		END_GROUP = CORRECTIONS_APPLIED 
	END_GROUP = L1G_PRODUCT_METADATA 
END_GROUP = METADATA_FILE
END
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