These Landsat 5 TM composites are made from Level L1T orthorectified scenes, using the
computed top-of-atmosphere (TOA) reflectance. See Chander et al.
(2009)
for details on the TOA computation.
As of May 1, 2017, the USGS is no longer producing Pre-Collection Landsat, and therefore this collection is complete. Please switch to a Collection 1-based dataset. See this documentation page for more information.
These composites are created from
all the scenes in
each annual period beginning from the first day of the year and
continuing to the last day of the year. All the images from each year
are included in the composite, with the greenest pixel as the composite value, where
the greenest pixel means the pixel with the highest value of
the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI).
Bands
Resolution 30 meters
Bands
Name
Wavelength
Description
B1
0.45 - 0.52 μm
Blue
B2
0.52 - 0.60 μm
Green
B3
0.63 - 0.69 μm
Red
B4
0.76 - 0.90 μm
Near infrared
B5
1.55 - 1.75 μm
Shortwave infrared 1
B6
10.40 - 12.50 μm
Thermal Infrared 1. Resampled from 60m to 30m.
B7
2.08 - 2.35 μm
Shortwave infrared 2
greenness
The pixel with the highest value of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) for the year covered by the image.
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
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These Landsat 5 TM composites are made from Level L1T orthorectified scenes, using the computed top-of-atmosphere (TOA) reflectance. See Chander et al. (2009) for details on the TOA computation. As of May 1, 2017, the USGS is no longer producing Pre-Collection Landsat, and therefore this collection is complete. Please switch …
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