Landsat Collection 2 Tier 1 Level 2 8-Day NDVI Composite

LANDSAT/COMPOSITES/C02/T1_L2_8DAY_NDVI
Dataset Availability
1984-01-01T00:00:00Z–2025-09-22T00:00:00Z
Dataset Provider
Earth Engine Snippet
ee.ImageCollection("LANDSAT/COMPOSITES/C02/T1_L2_8DAY_NDVI")
Cadence
8 Days
Tags
landsat
ndvi
usgs
vegetation-indices

Description

These Landsat Collection 2 Tier 1 Level 2 composites are made from Tier 1 Level 2 orthorectified scenes.

The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index is generated from the Near-IR and Red bands of each scene as (NIR - Red) / (NIR + Red), and ranges in value from -1.0 to 1.0.

These composites are created from all the scenes in each 8-day period beginning from the first day of the year and continuing to the 360th day of the year. The last composite of the year, beginning on day 361, will overlap the first composite of the following year by 3 days. All the images from each 8-day period are included in the composite, with the most recent pixel as the composite value.

Notes:

  • Only daytime images with WRS_ROW < 122 are included.

  • For Landsat 7 , images after 2017-01-01 are excluded due to orbital drift.

  • For Landsat 8, images before 2013-05-01 are excluded due to pointing issues.

Bands

Bands

Name Min Max Pixel Size Description
NDVI -1* 1* 30 meters

Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
* estimated min or max value

Terms of Use

Terms of Use

Landsat datasets are federally created data and therefore reside in the public domain and may be used, transferred, or reproduced without copyright restriction.

Acknowledgement or credit of the USGS as data source should be provided by including a line of text citation such as the example shown below.

(Product, Image, Photograph, or Dataset Name) courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey

Example: Landsat-7 image courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey

See the USGS Visual Identity System Guidance for further details on proper citation and acknowledgement of USGS products.

Explore with Earth Engine

Code Editor (JavaScript)

var dataset = ee.ImageCollection('LANDSAT/COMPOSITES/C02/T1_L2_8DAY_NDVI')
                  .filterDate('2017-01-01', '2017-12-31');
var colorized = dataset.select('NDVI');
var colorizedVis = {
  min: 0,
  max: 1,
  palette: [
    'ffffff', 'ce7e45', 'df923d', 'f1b555', 'fcd163', '99b718', '74a901',
    '66a000', '529400', '3e8601', '207401', '056201', '004c00', '023b01',
    '012e01', '011d01', '011301'
  ],
};
Map.setCenter(6.746, 46.529, 6);
Map.addLayer(colorized, colorizedVis, 'Colorized');
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These Landsat Collection 2 Tier 1 Level 2 composites are made from Tier 1 Level 2 orthorectified scenes. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index is generated from the Near-IR and Red bands of each scene as (NIR - Red) / (NIR + Red), and ranges in value from -1.0 to 1.0. …
LANDSAT/COMPOSITES/C02/T1_L2_8DAY_NDVI, landsat,ndvi,usgs,vegetation-indices
1984-01-01T00:00:00Z/2025-09-22T00:00:00Z
-90 -180 90 180
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