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Posted on December 29, 2022 (Updated on July 10, 2025)

Why do Landsat 8 grayscales have a range of (0, 2^16-1) while the screen colors are (0, 2^8-1)?

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What is the spatial resolution of all but one of the bands on Landsat 8?

30 meters

Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) and Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) images consist of nine spectral bands with a spatial resolution of 30 meters for Bands 1 to 7 and 9.

What is the difference between Landsat 8 and Landsat 9?

With the higher radiometric resolution, Landsat 9 can differentiate 16,384 shades of a given wavelength. In comparison, Landsat 8 provides 12-bit data and 4,096 shades, and Landsat 7 detects only 256 shades with its 8-bit resolution.

How does Landsat 8 work?

The Landsat 8 satellite payload consists of two science instruments—the Operational Land Imager (OLI) and the Thermal InfraRed Sensor (TIRS). These two sensors provide seasonal coverage of the global landmass at a spatial resolution of 30 meters (visible, NIR, SWIR); 100 meters (thermal); and 15 meters (panchromatic).

How often does Landsat 8 capture imagery of the same location on the earth’s surface?

Each satellite makes a complete orbit every 99 minutes, completes about 14 full orbits each day, and crosses every point on Earth once every 16 days. The satellite orbits are offset to allow 8-day repeat coverage of any Landsat scene area on the globe.

What is unique about Landsat 8?

The Landsat 8 satellite payload consists of two science instruments—the Operational Land Imager (OLI) and the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS). These two sensors provide seasonal coverage of the global landmass at a spatial resolution of 30 meters (visible, NIR, SWIR); 100 meters (thermal); and 15 meters (panchromatic).

What is the highest spatial resolution for Landsat 8 imagery?

30-meter

Landsat 8 images have 15-meter panchromatic and 30-meter multi-spectral spatial resolutions along a 185 km (115 mi) swath.

What is false Colour composite for Landsat 8?

False color.



TM Bands 2, 3, 4 for the older Landsats, and 3,4,5 for Landsat 8. This is a false color IR image, with the red being the near IR band (which we cannot see), but which clearly shows the vegetation and its health. This may be the most common band combination used in remote sensing.
 

Which bands are most suitable in Landsat 8 satellite image for land use land cover classification?

From our experiments, band 4, 5, 6 is the best three-band combination and band 1, 2, 5, 7 is the best four-band combination which achieved almost identical performance as using all bands for LULC classification.

Which bands of Landsat 8 are best for discriminating between snow and cloud cover?

The use of band 9 to identify clouds will identify snow at high elevation as clouds.
 

What is the spatial resolution of multispectral 8 band imagery?

Landsat OLI and TIRS

Spectral Bands Spatial Resolution
2.11 – 2.29 μm (Band 7 – SWIR-1) 30 m
0.50 – 0.68 μm (Band 8 – panchromatic) 15 m
1.36 – 1.38 μm (Band 9 – cirrus) 30 m
10.60 – 11.19 μm (Band 10 – Thermal IR 1) 100 m

What are the bands of Landsat 8?

On board Landsat-8, OLI generates 9 spectral bands (Band 1 to 9). Landsat 8 bands from the OLI sensor are coastal, blue, green, red, NIR, SWIR-1, SWIR-2 and cirrus. These 8 bands have a ground resolution of 30 meters. Then, the panchromatic band has a finer resolution of 15 meters.
 

What is spatial resolution limited by?

The spatial resolution you obtain in a measurement is typically limited not by the underlying scattering physics, but by the measurement noise and dose (per unit area) you can deposit on the sample. As a general consideration, you need a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of about 3 to see a feature.

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