HLSL30: HLS-2 Landsat Operational Land Imager Surface Reflectance and TOA Brightness Daily Global 30m

  • The Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS) project provides consistent surface reflectance and top of atmosphere brightness data from Landsat 8/9 and Sentinel-2 A/B satellites.

  • This dataset offers global observations of the land every 2 to 3 days at 30m spatial resolution.

  • The HLSL30 product specifically provides 30m Nadir Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF), Adjusted Reflectance (NBAR) from Landsat 8/9.

  • Data is available from April 11, 2013, to October 15, 2025, and is provided by NASA LP DAAC.
NASA/HLS/HLSL30/v002
Dataset Availability
2013-04-11T00:00:00Z–2026-03-16T23:54:27Z
Dataset Producer
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ee.ImageCollection("NASA/HLS/HLSL30/v002")
Tags
landsat nasa satellite-imagery sentinel usgs

Description

The Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS) project provides consistent surface reflectance (SR) and top of atmosphere (TOA) brightness data from a virtual constellation of satellite sensors. The Operational Land Imager (OLI) is housed aboard the joint NASA/USGS Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 satellites, while the Multi-Spectral Instrument (MSI) is mounted aboard Europe's Copernicus Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-2B satellites. The combined measurement enables global observations of the land every 2 to 3 days at 30m spatial resolution. The HLS project uses a set of algorithms to obtain seamless products from OLI and MSI that include atmospheric correction, cloud and cloud-shadow masking, spatial co-registration and common gridding, illumination and view angle normalization, and spectral bandpass adjustment.

The HLS project distributes data as two separate products: HLSL30 (Landsat 8/9) and HLSS30 (Sentinel-2 A/B). They both provide 30m Nadir Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF), Adjusted Reflectance (NBAR).

Documentation:

Bands

Bands

Pixel size: 30 meters (all bands)

Name Units Pixel Size Description
B1 30 meters

Coastal Aerosol
B2 30 meters

Blue
B3 30 meters

Green
B4 30 meters

Red
B5 30 meters

NIR
B6 30 meters

SWIR1
B7 30 meters

SWIR2
B9 30 meters

Cirrus
B10 30 meters

TIRS1
B11 30 meters

TIRS2
Fmask 30 meters

Quality Bits
SZA deg 30 meters

Sun Zenith Angle
SAA deg 30 meters

Sun Azimuth Angle
VZA deg 30 meters

View Zenith Angle
VAA deg 30 meters

View Azimuth Angle

Image Properties

Image Properties

Name Type Description
ACCODE STRING

LaSRC version, e.g. LaSRCS2AV3.5.5 or LaSRCL8V3.5.5
LANDSAT_PRODUCT_ID STRING

The Landsat-8 input L1 scene product ID for processing backtracing.
TIRS_SSM_MODEL STRING

TIRS SSM encoder position model (Preliminary, Final or Actual).
TIRS_SSM_POSITION_STATUS STRING

L30
USGS_SOFTWARE STRING

LPGS_2.6.2
CLOUD_COVERAGE DOUBLE

The percentage of cloud and cloud shadow in observation based on Fmask
HLS_PROCESSING_TIME STRING

The date and time of HLS processing for this observation
MEAN_SUN_AZIMUTH_ANGLE DOUBLE

Mean Sun Azimuth Angle in degree of the input data for HLS L30
MEAN_SUN_ZENITH_ANGLE DOUBLE

Mean Sun Zenith Angle in degree of the input data for HLS L30
MEAN_VIEW_AZIMUTH_ANGLE DOUBLE

Mean View Azimuth Angle in degree of the input data
MEAN_VIEW_ZENITH_ANGLE DOUBLE

Mean View Zenith Angle in degree of the input data
NBAR_SOLAR_ZENITH DOUBLE

The solar zenith angle used in NBAR derivation
SPATIAL_COVERAGE DOUBLE

The percentage of the tile with data

Terms of Use

Terms of Use

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Citations

Citations:

  • Masek, J., Ju, J., Roger, J., Skakun, S., Vermote, E., Claverie, M., Dungan, J., Yin, Z., Freitag, B., Justice, C. (2021). HLS Operational Land Imager Surface Reflectance and TOA Brightness Daily Global 30m v2.0 [Data set]. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center. Accessed 2023-09-12 from https://doi.org/10.5067/HLS/HLSL30.002

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var collection = ee.ImageCollection("NASA/HLS/HLSL30/v002")
                    .filter(ee.Filter.date('2013-04-25', '2013-04-28'))
                    .filter(ee.Filter.lt('CLOUD_COVERAGE', 30));
var visParams = {
  bands: ['B4', 'B3', 'B2'],
  min:0.01,
  max:0.18,
};

var visualizeImage = function(image) {
  var imageRGB = image.visualize(visParams);
  return imageRGB;
};

var rgbCollection = collection.map(visualizeImage);

Map.setCenter(-60.1765, -22.5318, 11)
Map.addLayer(rgbCollection, {}, 'HLS RGB bands');
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The Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS) project provides consistent surface reflectance (SR) and top of atmosphere (TOA) brightness data from a virtual constellation of satellite sensors. The Operational Land Imager (OLI) is housed aboard the joint NASA/USGS Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 satellites, while the Multi-Spectral Instrument (MSI) is mounted aboard …
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