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Digital Earth Africa (DE Africa) provides free and open access to a copy of Landsat Collection 2 Level-2 products over Africa. These products are produced and provided by the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
The Landsat series of Earth Observation satellites, jointly led by USGS and NASA, have been continuously acquiring images of the Earth’s land surface since 1972. DE Africa provides data from Landsat 5, 7 and 8 satellites, including historical observations dating back to late 1980s and regularly updated new acquisitions.
New Level-2 Landsat 7 and Landsat 8 data are available after 15 to 27 days from acquisition. See Landsat Collection 2 Generation Timeline for details.
USGS Landsat Collection 2 was released early 2021 and offers improved processing, geometric accuracy, and radiometric calibration compared to previous Collection 1 products. The Level-2 products are endorsed by the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) to be Analysis Ready Data for Land (CARD4L)[...]
Overview
Digital Earth Africa (DE Africa) provides free and open access to a copy of Landsat Collection 2 Level-2 products over Africa. These products are produced and provided by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The Landsat series of Earth Observation satellites, jointly led by USGS and NASA, have been continuously acquiring images of the Earth’s land surface since 1972. DE Africa provides data from Landsat 5, 7 and 8 satellites, including historical observations dating back to late 1980s and regularly updated new acquisitions. New Level-2 Landsat 7 and Landsat 8 data are available after 15 to 27 days from acquisition. See Landsat Collection 2 Generation Timeline for details. USGS Landsat Collection 2 was released early 2021 and offers improved processing, geometric accuracy, and radiometric calibration compared to previous Collection 1 products. The Level-2 products are endorsed by the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) to be Analysis Ready Data for Land (CARD4L)-compliant. This internationally recognized certification ensures these products have been processed to a minimum set of requirements and organized into a form that allows immediate analysis with a minimum of additional user effort and interoperability both through time and with other datasets.
Features and programs
Open Data Sponsorship Program
This dataset is part of the Open Data Sponsorship Program, an AWS program that covers the cost of storage for publicly available high-value cloud-optimized datasets.
Pricing
This is a publicly available data set. No subscription is required.
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Open data resources
Available with or without an AWS account.
- How to use
- To access these resources, reference the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI). Learn more
- Description
- Landsat scenes and metadata
- Resource type
- S3 bucket
- Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
- arn:aws:s3:::deafrica-landsat
- AWS region
- af-south-1
- AWS CLI access (No AWS account required)
- aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://deafrica-landsat/
- Description
- [S3 Inventory](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/storage-inventory.html#storage-inventory-contents) files
- Resource type
- S3 bucket
- Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
- arn:aws:s3:::deafrica-landsat-inventory
- AWS region
- af-south-1
- AWS CLI access (No AWS account required)
- aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://deafrica-landsat-inventory/
- Description
- New scene notifications, can subscribe with [Lambda](https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/) or [SQS](https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/). Message contains entire STAC ST and SR record for each new Item
- Resource type
- SNS topic
- Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
- arn:aws:sns:af-south-1:543785577597:deafrica-landsat-scene-topic
- AWS region
- af-south-1
- Description
- Bucket creation event notification, can subscribe with [Lambda](https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/) or [SQS](https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/). Message sent by deafrica-landsat s3 bucket all object create events.
- Resource type
- SNS topic
- Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
- arn:aws:sns:af-south-1:543785577597:deafrica-landsat-topic
- AWS region
- af-south-1
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How to cite
Digital Earth Africa Landsat Collection 2 Level 2 was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/deafrica-landsat .
License
There are no restrictions on Landsat data downloaded from the USGS; it can be used or redistributed as desired. USGS request that you include a statement of the data source when citing, copying, or reprinting USGS Landsat data or images.
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