# Presentation: 259508

## Sources of Free Imagery

- Glenn Bethel
- glenn.bethel@usda.gov
- Dec 2, 2008

## Landsat Web-Enabled Data 

- The initial release of the Web-Enabled data included only the United States, but the Landsat Project has gradually expanded processing to global coverage.
- All data that are high quality, with less than 20 percent cloud cover are automatically processed to standard L1T product.

## Landsat Standard L1T

- Newly acquired data that will be automatically processed
- ≤ 20% cloud cover, 9 quality
- All other data (and archive data) can be ordered at no-charge
- L7: 					Sep 30, 2008
- L5 TM, L4 TM, L1-5 MSS: 		Dec 31, 2008
**Pixel size:****	****	****15m/30m/30m**
**Media type:****	****Download (web-enabled)**
**Product type:****	****L1T (terrain-corrected)**
**Output format:****	****GeoTIFF**
**Map projection:****	****UTM**
**Orientation:****	****North up**
**Resampling:****	****Cubic convolution**
**DEM:****	****	****GLS DEM (SRTM, NED, CDAD, DTED, **
**	****	****	****	****GTOPO 30)**

## Landsat Web-Enabling Timeline

**Notes:**
Landsat slides from: 
James M. Lacasse
USGS, Landsat Mission Management Officer
Landsat Web-Enabling Project Manager
September 30, 2008

## Supporting the Commercial Remote Sensing Space Policy (CRSSP)

**“****The fundamental goal of this policy is to advance and protect U.S. national security and foreign policy interests by maintaining the nation’s leadership in remote sensing space activities, by sustaining and enhancing the U.S. remote sensing industry.”**

**Notes:**
The President authorized a new national policy on April 25, 2003 that established guidance and implementation actions for commercial remote sensing space capabilities. This policy supersedes Presidential Directive 23, U.S. Policy on Foreign Access to Remote Sensing Space Capabilities, dated March 9, 1994.

In support of this goal, the U.S. Government will:
Rely to the maximum practical extent on U.S. commercial remote sensing space capabilities for filling imagery and geospatial needs for military, intelligence, foreign policy, homeland security, and civil users. 

## Senior Management Oversight

_**Senior Management Oversight**_
**   ****NGA **
**   ****USGS   **
**   ****NOAA  **
**   ****NASA **
**   ****DHS **
**  ****USDA**

*** The SMOC will report status and plans at the NGA-hosted CEO Sessions**
**** Budget – Each agency responsible for seeking its own resources**

## CRSSP Participants

**Department of Transportation**
**Federal Geographic Data Committee**
**National Aeronautics and Space** **Administration**
**National Capital Planning Commission**
**US Department of Agriculture**
- Natural Resources Conservation Service
- US Forest Service
- Foreign Agricultural Service
- Farm Service Agency
- National Agricultural Statistics Service
**US Environmental Protection Agency**
**Department of State**
**Department of Justice**

- 	Department of Commerce
- 	**Census Bureau**
**	****National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration**
- 	Department of Defense
- 	**National Geospatial Intelligence Agency**
**	****US Army Corps of Engineers**
- 	Department of Energy
- 	Department of Interior
**	****Bureau of Land Management**
**	****US Fish and Wildlife Service**
**	****National Park Service**
**	****US Geological Survey**
**	****Office of Surface Mining**
- 	Department of Homeland Security
**	****Federal Emergency Management Service**
**	****Transportation Safety Administration**
**	****US Coast Guard**
**	****US Customs and Border Protection**

## Department of the Interior, USGS

**Ikonos-2**
**© Copyright 2005 GeoEye**

**Department of the Interior, USGS**
**Volcano Disaster Assistance Program**
**Krakatau Indonesia**

*Pixel Resolution*
*(at nadir)*
*1m – Pan*
*4m -- B,G,R,NIR*

*Scene Size*
*11km x 11km*

**Notes:**
Slide from USGS

## Reforestation Assessment on Indiana Coal Mines in  –  SW Indiana 

**Copyright 2007 DigitalGlobe**

**Department of the Interior - Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation & Enforcement **
**Reforestation Assessment on Indiana Coal Mines in  –  SW Indiana**** **

*Pixel Resolution*
*(at nadir)*
*.61m – Pan*
*2.44m -- B,G,R,NIR*

*Scene Size*
*16.5km x 16.5km*

**Notes:**
Slide from USGS

## Department of the Interior, USGS

**WorldView-1 Copyright 2007 DigitalGlobe**

**Department of the Interior, USGS**
**Volcano Disaster Assistance Program**
**CIDR Requirement 1567 – Ubinas Peru**

*Pixel Resolution*
*(at nadir)*
*.5 m – Pan*

*Swath Width*
*17.6km at nadir*

*Scene Length - 14km*

**Notes:**
Slide from USGS

## Context

- Recently NGA has been providing considerably more data for civil needs (no cost)
- WorldView-1 and GeoEye-1 add considerable capacity
- Includes new collects, NGA archive, vendor archive, reprocessed scenes
- Data comes with NextView licenses

## Customers and products

- Customers include DOI (USGS, NPS, OSM, BLM) USDA (FS, NASS, FSA, NRCS), NOAA and other agencies
- USGS is the focal point interfacing with NGA for many civil requirements
- NGA and USGS partner on user outreach
- Turn around time – depends on product, weather, area demand, tasking window
- Archive very quick to immediate from UNIL via WARP
- New collects sometimes within days of order

**Notes:**
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Slide from USGS

## Applications

- Wide range of domestic and international science, environmental, hazards, resource, and other applications for example:
- World heritage site monitoring
- Glacier studies
- Volcano monitoring
- Improving land management practices, Reservation planning, environmental monitoring
- Identify vegetative health, urban sprawl
- Climate change study
- Energy and energy infrastructure
- Alaska energy infrastructure, resource surveys and inventories
- ... to name just a few

**Notes:**
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##  Imagery Archive Discovery Tools-WARP

-  Imagery Archive Discovery Tools-WARP

_**https://warp.nga.mil**_

## WorldView

- All WorldView imagery has a NextView License
- If you can use Panchromatic imagery for your application, you can expect to get free imagery.
- Search Digital Globe or WARP for existing imagery.

## Vendor archives

- DigitalGlobe: http://www.digitalglobe.com
- GeoEye: http://www.geoeye.com
- MacDonald Dettwiler & Associates (MDA) Federal:  http://gs.mdacorporation.com
- SPOT: http://www.spot.com

## USDA Imagery Archive 

- FAS serves as the repository and manager of the USDA Satellite Imagery Archive. Access is available to USDA subscribers only. The USDA Imagery Archive is the repository for all acquired USDA satellite imagery. The Archive was established in 2001 as a cost-sharing agreement among the various subscribers.
- Link: **Archive Explorer** (USDA subscribers only)
**Wednesday,  December 3, 2008**  @9:00