These Landsat 8 Collection 1 Tier 1 composites are made from Tier 1 orthorectified scenes, using the
computed top-of-atmosphere (TOA) reflectance.
See Chander et al. (2009)
for details on the TOA computation.
The Normalized Difference Snow Index is used to
identify snow, based on its characteristically higher reflectance in
the visible portion of the spectrum compared to the mid-IR. NDSI is
computed using the Green and Mid-IR bands, and has a range of -1.0 to
1.0. See
Riggs et al. (1994)
for details.
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.
Bands
Bands
Name
Pixel Size
Description
NDSI
30 meters
Normalized Difference Snow Index
Terms of Use
Terms of Use
Landsat datasets are federally created data
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These Landsat 8 Collection 1 Tier 1 composites are made from Tier 1 orthorectified scenes, using the computed top-of-atmosphere (TOA) reflectance. See Chander et al. (2009) for details on the TOA computation. The Normalized Difference Snow Index is used to identify snow, based on its characteristically higher reflectance in the …
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