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Project: |
Landsat International Cooperators |
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| Leader: | Jay
Feuquay, feuquay@usgs.gov
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| Overview: | The DOI/USGS Landsat Program has concluded International
agreements with eleven foreign governments to establish cooperative data-access
and data-exchange arrangments with their respective ground receiving stations.
The USGS provides a direct downlink to Landsat 5 and/or Landsat 7 data,
and collects annual cost sharing (or campaign) fees. The USGS retains ownership
of all raw Landsat data. The International Cooperator must maintain an archive
for at least ten years, and must ensure that all Landsat data is available
for sale and distributed on a public non-discriminatory basis. The IC also
agrees to exchange data with the USGS for key government programs, and for
quality assurance purposes. The IC is may set product prices, place copyrights,
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| USGS Mission Tie In: |
By working collaboratively with other nations
in downlinking Landsat imagery, the USGS continues to maintain a global
archive of existing and future Landsat-type remote sensing data at the EROS
Data Center. The IC`s maintain a much more extensive archive of Landsat
imagery within their circles of coverage, and these scenes are available
to the USGS under the Data Exchange policy. Further, the IC`s must give
the USGS first right of refusal before purging Landsat data from their archives. |
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| Discipline: | Geography | ||
| Locations: | Argentina, Australia (2 stations), Brazil, Canada (2 stations), China, European Space Agency (4 stations), Indonesia, Japan (3 stations), Thailand, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa. | ||
| Web Sites: | http://landsat7.usgs.gov/ http://landsat7.usgs.gov/grounds.html http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/main.html http://edcsns17.cr.usgs.gov/EarthExplorer/ |
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| Partners: | Argentina
Comision Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE) Australian Center for Remote Sensing (ACRES) Brazil Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) Canada Center for Remote Sensing (CCRS) China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station European Space Agency (ESA) Indonesia National Institute of Aeronautics and Space Remote Sensing Application Center (LAPAN) Thailand Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (GISTDA) South Africa Satellite Applications Centre (SAC) |
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U.S. Department of the Interior |
U.S. Geological Survey
URL: http://international.usgs.gov/projects/prjlandsat.htm
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