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#           Eyes on Earth Episode 79 – Landsat Global Archive Consolidation      

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Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we learn about the process that has gradually added millions of earlier Landsat scenes to the 50-year archive.

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**Summary**: The Landsat archive at EROS contains an unparalleled 50 years of Earth observation data. But with earlier technologies, some Landsat scenes were collected and stored only by international ground receiving stations rather than in the central archive at EROS. More than 10 years ago, to help make that far-flung data available to scientists interested in land change over time, the Landsat Global Archive Consolidation (LGAC) project began having the reels and tapes sent to EROS to digitize that information. In this episode of Eyes on Earth, we learn how that project has deepened the archive dramatically.

**Guests:**Todd Taylor, EROS contract task lead for Sustaining Land Imaging partnership support, and contractor Jayson Holter, EROS task manager for the Landsat Missions Operations Project, Ground Operations

**Host:** Tom Adamson

**Producer:** Brian Hauge

**Release date:** August 29, 2022

**More on the Landsat archive:**
                                - Landsat Global Archive Consolidation
                                - High Density Digital Tape (HDDT) Landsat Data Recovery
                                - Landsat International Cooperators
                                - Eyes on Earth Episode 38 – Time Series Analysis with Landsat

### Contacts

#### Timothy A. Glynn

##### Chief of Staff

Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center 

tglynn@usgs.gov

605-594-6046

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                      - Remote Sensing
                      - Information Systems
                      - Maps and Mapping
                      - Landsat Data
                      - Landsat Global Archive Consolidation
                      - Landsat scenes

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Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we learn about the process that has gradually added millions of earlier Landsat scenes to the 50-year archive.

View Media Details

View

Download and transcript access

View Media Details

**Summary**: The Landsat archive at EROS contains an unparalleled 50 years of Earth observation data. But with earlier technologies, some Landsat scenes were collected and stored only by international ground receiving stations rather than in the central archive at EROS. More than 10 years ago, to help make that far-flung data available to scientists interested in land change over time, the Landsat Global Archive Consolidation (LGAC) project began having the reels and tapes sent to EROS to digitize that information. In this episode of Eyes on Earth, we learn how that project has deepened the archive dramatically.

**Guests:**Todd Taylor, EROS contract task lead for Sustaining Land Imaging partnership support, and contractor Jayson Holter, EROS task manager for the Landsat Missions Operations Project, Ground Operations

**Host:** Tom Adamson

**Producer:** Brian Hauge

**Release date:** August 29, 2022

**More on the Landsat archive:**
                                - Landsat Global Archive Consolidation
                                - High Density Digital Tape (HDDT) Landsat Data Recovery
                                - Landsat International Cooperators
                                - Eyes on Earth Episode 38 – Time Series Analysis with Landsat

### Contacts

#### Timothy A. Glynn

##### Chief of Staff

Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center 

tglynn@usgs.gov

605-594-6046

### Explore Search

                      - Remote Sensing
                      - Information Systems
                      - Maps and Mapping
                      - Landsat Data
                      - Landsat Global Archive Consolidation
                      - Landsat scenes

View All **