[GLIMS] Landsat NEXT (Landsat 10) recommendations

[Tobias Bolch]

Jeff,

This is very good news. Thank you for your respective activities.
And yes, good and repeat stereo imaging would be very valuable.

Best regards,

Tobias

Am 16/11/2020 um 17:06 schrieb Jeffrey Kargel:
> Dear GLIMS people:
> I hope you are safe and healthy, or if you have fallen ill with COVID 
> that your recovery is full. And for the present predicament of more 
> lockdowns, I wish you sanity and contentment as we await better days!
>
> I am happy to say that our earlier recommended addition of two sensor 
> bands (what I called GLIMS1 and GLIMS2) has been adopted in the 
> still-evolving Landsat 10 design. They are called bands 13a and 13b. 
> See the attached Landsat NEXT sensor specifications document. I have 
> responded to a recent NASA Request for Information (other attached 
> document), where I am pushing for a good stereo imaging band at least 
> the equal of ASTER's and hopefully better. I included in it some 
> guidance I think from Ted Scambos, where we both agreed that 60 
> degrees was way too much, because we would mainly be seeing hazes, and 
> it is overkill for parallax. The RFI included some words about a 
> possible multiplatform structure, which would make sense to aid stereo 
> imaging that way. So I really didn't have much guidance to offer, 
> aside from that important matter. It seems that it will be an amazing 
> satellite/camera/sensor setup, maybe not that vast of an improvement 
> over the super-amazing Sentinel-2, but an improvement over that and 
> also Landsat 8 (and 9 coming up next year).
>
> For those of you who responded to me during last June's flurry of 
> activity on this, thank you very much. Now, let's try to get good 
> stereo imaging!
> Cheers,
> Jeff Kargel
>
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