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Landsat Extended Acquisitions of the Poles (LEAP) imaging plan is a Landsat special request data collection program for Earth's polar regions that include Antarctica, Greenland, and Arctic sea ice geographies. The LEAP program includes Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 observatories that operationally ac...
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ftdatacite:10.5066/p13edo3k 2024-03-31T07:49:17+00:00 LEAP: Landsat Extended Acquisitions of the Poles Imaging Plan ... Theodore A Scambos Christopher Shuman Mark Fahnestock Tasha Snow Christopher J Crawford 2024 https://dx.doi.org/10.5066/p13edo3k https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/65ca8963d34ef4b119cb3343 unknown U.S. Geological Survey https://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EO240048 dataset Dataset 2024 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5066/p13edo3khttps://doi.org/10.1029/2024EO240048 2024-03-04T13:58:28Z Landsat Extended Acquisitions of the Poles (LEAP) imaging plan is a Landsat special request data collection program for Earth's polar regions that include Antarctica, Greenland, and Arctic sea ice geographies. The LEAP program includes Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 observatories that operationally acquire spaceborne images of all Earth's land surface and near-shore coastal environments. These images are acquired on a Worldwide Reference System-2, also called WRS-2. The WRS-2 is made up of paths and rows that define Landsat's imaged geography, and once acquired, are processed and discoverable in the U.S. Geological Survey's Landsat global data archive. The LEAP path-rows listed in the attached zipped data file represent image acquisitions for Antarctic, Greenland, and Arctic sea ice regions that are collected by special request during twilight conditions where the Sun's illumination angle is less than 5 degrees of elevation above the horizon. ... Dataset Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Arctic Greenland Sea ice DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Antarctic Arctic Greenland |
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Landsat Extended Acquisitions of the Poles (LEAP) imaging plan is a Landsat special request data collection program for Earth's polar regions that include Antarctica, Greenland, and Arctic sea ice geographies. The LEAP program includes Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 observatories that operationally acquire spaceborne images of all Earth's land surface and near-shore coastal environments. These images are acquired on a Worldwide Reference System-2, also called WRS-2. The WRS-2 is made up of paths and rows that define Landsat's imaged geography, and once acquired, are processed and discoverable in the U.S. Geological Survey's Landsat global data archive. The LEAP path-rows listed in the attached zipped data file represent image acquisitions for Antarctic, Greenland, and Arctic sea ice regions that are collected by special request during twilight conditions where the Sun's illumination angle is less than 5 degrees of elevation above the horizon. ... |
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Theodore A Scambos Christopher Shuman Mark Fahnestock Tasha Snow Christopher J Crawford |
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Theodore A Scambos Christopher Shuman Mark Fahnestock Tasha Snow Christopher J Crawford LEAP: Landsat Extended Acquisitions of the Poles Imaging Plan ... |
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Theodore A Scambos Christopher Shuman Mark Fahnestock Tasha Snow Christopher J Crawford |
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LEAP: Landsat Extended Acquisitions of the Poles Imaging Plan ... |
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LEAP: Landsat Extended Acquisitions of the Poles Imaging Plan ... |
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U.S. Geological Survey |
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https://dx.doi.org/10.5066/p13edo3k https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/65ca8963d34ef4b119cb3343 |
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Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Arctic Greenland Sea ice |
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