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Landsat 9: A Continuing Legacy of Earth Observation

In order to continue the Landsat program’s long-standing legacy, NASA and the USGS launched Landsat-9 in September 2021 as the 9th satellite.

Worldview Satellite by Maxar

DigitalGlobe’s cutting-edge high resolution Worldview satellite carves out ridiculously crisp imagery at 31 cm in 8 spectral bands.

MODIS: Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer

Despite popular belief MODIS is a satellite, it’s actually an instrument on-board a satellite. It has 36 bands, 250-1000 meter resolution and 2-day revisits.

The 50 Most Influential Satellites in Remote Sensing

A list of the 50 most iconic satellites put up into space to monitor our planet. We show the uses and types of satellites like weather and GPS satellites.

Landsat 8 Bands and Band Combinations

We list Landsat 8 bands as well as popular band combinations which includes coastal, blue, green, red, NIR, SWIR-1, SWIR-2, cirrus and two thermal bands.

Sentinel 2 Bands and Combinations

Sentinel 2 has a total of 13 bands. Each band is 10, 20 or 60 meters in pixel size. This includes red, green, blue, near infrared and short infrared bands.

AVHRR: Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer

AVHRR (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer) spatial resolution is actually very coarse at 1.1 km. But its revisit times are “very high” at just one day.