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OLI  

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  • [Source: NASA LDCM Mission Homepage, http://ldcm.nasa.gov/spacecraft_instruments/oli.html ] The Operational Land Imager (OLI), built by the Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation, will measure in the visible, near infrared, and short wave infrared portions of the spectrum. Its images will have 15-meter (49 ft.) panchromatic and 30-meter multi-spectral spatial resolutions along a 185 km (115 miles) wide swath, covering wide areas of the Earth's landscape while providing sufficient resolution to distinguish features like urban centers, farms, forests and other land uses. The entire Earth will fall within view once every 16 days due to LDCM's near-polar orbit. OLI's design is an advancement in Landsat sensor technology and uses an approach demonstrated by the Advanced Land Imager sensor flown on NASA's experimental EO-1 satellite. Instruments on earlier Landsat satellites employed scan mirrors to sweep the instrument fields of view across the surface swath width and transmit light to a few detectors. The OLI will instead use long detector arrays, with over 7,000 detectors per spectral band, aligned across its focal plane to view across the swath. This "push-broom" design results in a more sensitive instrument providing improved land surface information with fewer moving parts. With an improved signal-to-noise ratio compared to past Landsat instruments, engineers expect this new OLI design to be more reliable and to provide improved performance. More Information: http://ldcm.nasa.gov/spacecraft_instruments/oli.html Group: Instrument_Details Entry_ID: OLI Group: Instrument_Identification Instrument_Category: Earth Remote Sensing Instruments Instrument_Class: Passive Remote Sensing Instrument_Type: Spectrometers/Radiometers Instrument_Subtype: Imaging Spectrometers/Radiometers Short_Name: OLI Long_Name: Operational Land Imager End_Group Group: Associated_Platforms Short_Name: LANDSAT-8 End_Group Group: Spectral_Frequency_Information Wavelength_Keyword: Visible Number_Channels: 1 Spectral_Frequency_Coverage_Range: 0.433–0.453 μm End_Group Group: Spectral_Frequency_Information Wavelength_Keyword: Visible Number_Channels: 1 Spectral_Frequency_Coverage_Range: 0.450–0.515 μm End_Group Group: Spectral_Frequency_Information Wavelength_Keyword: Visible Number_Channels: 1 Spectral_Frequency_Coverage_Range: 0.525–0.600 μm End_Group Group: Spectral_Frequency_Information Wavelength_Keyword: Visible Number_Channels: 1 Spectral_Frequency_Coverage_Range: 0.630–0.680 μm End_Group Group: Spectral_Frequency_Information Wavelength_Keyword: Near Infrared Number_Channels: 1 Spectral_Frequency_Coverage_Range: 0.845–0.885 μm End_Group Group: Spectral_Frequency_Information Wavelength_Keyword: Infrared > Reflected Number_Channels: 1 Spectral_Frequency_Coverage_Range: 1.560–1.660 μm End_Group Group: Spectral_Frequency_Information Wavelength_Keyword: Infrared > Reflected Number_Channels: 1 Spectral_Frequency_Coverage_Range: 2.100–2.300 μm End_Group Group: Spectral_Frequency_Information Wavelength_Keyword: Visible Number_Channels: 1 Spectral_Frequency_Coverage_Range: 0.500–0.680 μm End_Group Group: Spectral_Frequency_Information Wavelength_Keyword: Near Infrared Number_Channels: 1 Spectral_Frequency_Coverage_Range: 1.360–1.390 μm End_Group Online_Resource: http://ldcm.nasa.gov/spacecraft_instruments/oli.html Sample_Image: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/566477main_ldcm-oli_s2.jpg Creation_Date: 2013-02-07 Group: Instrument_Logistics Instrument_Owner: USA/NASA Instrument_Owner: USA/USGS End_Group End_Group (en)

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  • 2013-02-07 10:43:17.0 [saritz] Insert Concept add broader relation (OLI [e8a6f9ad-e376-495c-869e-3467526b49ec,82109] - Imaging Spectrometers/Radiometers [944b7691-af37-4fb4-9393-c114e7997829,74845]);

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