Landsat 4 and 5 Thematic Mapper (TM) imagery collection
Landsat 4 and Landsat 5 carry both the TM (thematic mapper) and the MSS (multi-spectral scanner) sensors, though routine collection of MSS data was terminated in late 1992. The satellites orbit at an altitude of 705 km and provide a 16-day, 233-orbit cycle with a swath overlap that varies from 7 percent at the Equator to nearly 84 percent at 81 degrees north or south latitude. Landsat data is widely used in many fields including geology, agriculture, resource management, climate analysis etc. The Landsat program is jointly managed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the US Geological Survey (USGS). The NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) now also holds the data. The cost of retrieving data from these satellites is now prohibitive and they are now obsolete; in 1993 Landsat 6 failed to achieve orbit but the launch of Landsat 7 in 1999 provided open source data at less than commercial prices. See Landsat 7 article.
Note: Gaining access to the Landsat 4/5 TM data will also automatically give you access to the Landsat 7 etm data also held at the NEODC
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- Date (Publication)
- 2007-12-10T02:42:01
- Date (Creation)
- 2007-12-10T02:42:01
- Identifier
- NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) / e964b463ced4f4198f365cccd2633e6e
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown Unknown
- Update scope
- series Series
- Keywords
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- Not defined
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- atmospheric conditions
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Access to data within this collection is restricted. Please see the individual datasets within this collection for further access details.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- grid Grid
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1984-03-01T00:00:00
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
- Distribution format
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Contact data centre for format details.
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Contact data centre for format details.
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- OnLine resource
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- OnLine resource
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Landsat7 ETM and Landsat4/5 TM datasets conditions of use
No further details.
- OnLine resource
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Global Land Cover Facility website
No further details.
- OnLine resource
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How to open ESA CEOS Landsat format files
No further details.
- OnLine resource
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Infoterra - supplier of Landsat 4 & 5 TM data
No further details.
- OnLine resource
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NPA Group - supplier of Landsat 4 & 5 TM data
No further details.
- OnLine resource
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Image of Landsat-4
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- Hierarchy level
- series Series
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.
- File identifier
- e964b463ced4f4198f365cccd2633e6e XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- series Series
- Hierarchy level name
- series
- Date stamp
- 2026-04-01T02:27:32
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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