[OKGIS] FW: Timeline Set to Release Entire USGS Landsat Archive at No Charge.

[David W. Wheelock]

See below...

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From: Diane A Ayers [mailto:dag10 at cornell.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 3:21 PM
To: David W. Wheelock; robert-stokes at cherokee.org
Subject: Fwd: Timeline Set to Release Entire USGS Landsat Archive at No
Charge.


Mr. Wheelock and Mr. Stokes,

I signed up to the OKGIS list several years ago when I thought I might
be moving to OKCity.  I stayed with the list although I didn't move
because technical issues continue to be discussed and I can always learn
something.  

I am not able to post to the list, so I am sending you this (I see you
both post frequently), which came through the Cornell Univ. GIS list
serve ... I thought it would be of interest to your audience as well.  I
apologize if I am duplicating something already posted.



	To: CUGIS-L <CUGIS-L at cornell.edu>
	For Landsat users, here is some good news From the USGS...
	
	"Timeline Set to Release Entire USGS Landsat Archive at No
Charge."
	
	"Newly acquired, minimally cloudy Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic
Mapper
	Plus (ETM+) data covering North America and Africa are already
being
	distributed by the USGS over the Internet at no charge, with
expansion
	to full global coverage of incoming Landsat 7 data to be
completed by
	July 2008 (see timeline below). The full archive of historical
Landsat
	7 ETM+ data acquired by the USGS since launch in 1999 will
become
	available for selection and downloading by the end of September
2008.
	At that time, all Landsat 7 data purchasing options from the
USGS,
	wherein users pay for on-demand processing to various parameters
will
	be discontinued."
	
	"By the end of December of 2008, both incoming Landsat 5
Thematic
	Mapper (TM) data and all Landsat 5 TM data acquired by the USGS
since
	launch (1984) will become available, with all Landsat 4 TM
(1982-1985)
	and Landsat 1-5 Multi-Spectral Scanner (MSS) (1972-1994) data
becoming
	available by the end of January 2009. All Landsat data
purchasing
	options from the USGS will be discontinued by February 2009,
once the
	entire Landsat archive can be accessed at no charge."
	
	The full announcement is available here:
	
http://landsat.usgs.gov/images/squares/USGS_Landsat_Imagery_Release.pdf 



Diane


Diane Ayers - Data Manager
NYS Agricultural Districts Mapping Program
Cornell IRIS
302 Rice Hall
Ithaca, NY  14853-5601
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