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Geocover 1990 – Landsat 4 & 5 Imagery

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Provider

LandInfo Worldwide Mapping LLC

LandInfo Worldwide Mapping LLC provides world coverage of Landsat 4 and Landsat 5 (609 images).

Description

Images have been orthorectified. The 15 metre band was pan-sharpened with 30 metre multi-spectral bands 7, 4 and 2.

  • Band 7 (mid-infrared light) is displayed as red.
  • Band 4 (near-infrared light) is displayed as green.
  • Band 2 (visible green light) is displayed as blue.

Metadata

  • Metadata file from McMaster University (PDF – 23.7kb)

    A text metadata file [.met] accompanies each tile. This file contains technical specifications but does not indicate image capture data.

Projection

Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)

Datum

World Geodetic System (WGS84) with pixel size of 28.5 m.

Format

MrSID compressed format

Access

  • Contact the DRC -
  • File Naming Convention example: N-01-50
    • N= northern hemisphere
    • 1 = UTM grid zone 1
    • 50 = latitude of southern edge of the image
  • For advanced purposes please obtain images from the USGS website at http://glovis.usgs.gov . All existing Landsat data will available for free download after January 2009. For more information go o the USGS Landsat Missions website. The Landsat path and row information (WRS) centred closest to UTM Zones15, 16,17 and 18 is Path 18 Row 30. For other locations please use the WRS to Lat/Long converter from the USGS website.

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Data Access

Contact

519–824–4120 ext. 56417

Visit

The DRC is located behind the Research Help desk in the McLaughlin Library.

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