Earth Observing-1 Extended Mission

Geological Survey (USGS) and NASA agreed in December 2001 to share responsibility for operating EO-1 on a cost-reimbursable basis as long as customer sales are sufficient to recover flight and ground operations costs.

The EO-1 extended mission operates Overview remote sensing instruments: the within constraints imposed by its Advanced Land Imager (ALI), which technology-pioneering origins, but it also From its beginning in November 2000, acquires data in spectral bands and at provides unique and valuable the NASA Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) resolutions similar to Landsat, and capabilities. The spacecraft can acquire mission demonstrated the feasibility and Hyperion, which acquires data in 220 a target scene three times in a 16-day performance of a dozen innovative 10-nanometer-wide bands covering the period. The ALI instrument has sensor, spacecraft, and operational visible, near-, and shortwave-infrared additional spectral coverage and greater technologies. The 1-year mission tested a bands. radiometric dynamic range compared variety of technologies, some of which with the sensors on Landsat 7. Hyperion may be included on the planned 2007 Recognizing the remarkable performance is the first civilian spaceborne Landsat Data Continuity Mission. of the satellite's instruments and the hyperspectral imager. As of January Onboard the spacecraft are two land exceptional value of the data, the U.S. 2003, more than 5,000 scenes had been

Landsat Hyperion ALI

Landsat 7 image on the Nevada / California border, with ALI and Hyperion data ALI panchromatic (10-m resolution) image of Goldfield, Nevada. embeded. Outlines represent the full width of the Hyperion (8-km) and ALI (37- See red dot on composite image for location km image swath.

U.S. Department of the Interior USGS Fact Sheet 032-03 U.S. Geological Survey March 2003
Provide greater insight into potential acquisitions or 3 days if purchased commercial developers' prototype from the archive. instrument performance
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Add unique land remote sensing format. datasets to the USGS National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive Information
Characterize long-term performance of EO-1 advanced technology sensors To learn how to query the catalog of existing data, to order EO-1 data, or to Applications obtain sample datasets, please go to:

USGS and NASA scientists believe both eo1.usgs.gov earthexplorer.usgs.gov EO-1 images a small part of the same location on Landsat-like and hyperspectral data from the ground 1 minute after Landsat 7. EO-1 are valuable for various applications: Technical information about the EO-1 acquired, indexed, and archived. mission, satellite, sensors, and science
Land cover studies can be accessed at eo1.gsfc.nasa.gov Extended Mission Roles
Ecosystem monitoring
Mineral and petroleum exploration For information on other USGS products
NASA and the USGS are operating the Agricultural crop discrimination and and services, call 1-888-ASK-USGS or EO-1 mission as efficiently as possible, assessment visit the general interest publications
using the infrastructure and operational Environmental damage assessments Web site on mapping, geography, and strengths of each agency. The USGS related topics at erg.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/ EROS Data Center (EDC) in Sioux Falls, EO-1 data offer information in a wide pubslists/. S. Dak., is responsible for acquisition range of bandwidths. The satellite flies scheduling, data reception, order in formation with Landsat 7 and builds For additional information, visit the processing, acquisition cataloging, on the technology developed by the ask.usgs.gov Web site or the USGS home archiving, and product distribution. The Landsat Program. Further, EO-1 data page at www.usgs.gov. USGS will maintain the entire collection provide a sensor and technology in its long-term archive of global land prototype for future space-based remote data after the satellite has been sensing missions, offering the global decommissioned. science community an important transition database. The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, Md., manages the Data Products and Availability mission and operates the spacecraft. The GSFC coordinates data collection among Customers are encouraged to use the the network of polar and U.S. ground USGS Web-based Earth Explorer (EE) stations. The GSFC also periodically catalog search capability to find archived adjusts the spacecraft orbit, ensuring that scenes that lie within their geographic it follows by 1 minute along the same and temporal window. EE allows user- ground track as Landsat 7. NASA will specified place-name and map-based deorbit and decommission the spacecraft searches within a given timeframe. at the conclusion of the mission. False-color browse images allow the user to determine usability based on cloud Extended Mission Goals cover.
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Sustain and enhance USGS and NASA Island of Oahu, Hawaii, imaged by ALI. research and development toward can be ordered for $1,500.
applications of hyperspectral and Acquisitions will be retaken up to two pushbroom optical scanner data within times if assessed cloud cover over the the U.S. research and operational user scene exceeds 25 percent.
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