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blanketed with fresh snow.

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A mountain, its sides dazzling

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with the arrival of autumn's foliage.

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Images that not only captured
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tell a story.

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A story of our planet's surface
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A patchwork of rivers, mountains, deserts,

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oceans, farmlands and cities.

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A story
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years and decades, all
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Landsat actually was one of the things
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in remote sensing.

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Landsat provided that global perspective
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scale resolution.

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level, field scale, but also provide
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And that was pretty exciting.

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For over 50 years,
Landsat has watched over Earth,

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giving us critical insights into the way
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and around us Now eight satellites later.

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It's time for this story's next chapter.

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Landsat. Next.

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the next

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phase in the longest space
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will provide a host of new capabilities
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data users, including enhanced spatial
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But the most remarkable feature
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while previous Landsat missions
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Next will be a trio,
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observatories
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even before the launch
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was actually being queried about
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one of the things that came back
was all the users said, higher

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temporary visit was the highest thing
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And the way you get higher temporary visit
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so that you're have a wider field of view.

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or you have more satellites
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of the earth all the time.

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we came up with this approach
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to meet that temporal revisit
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those spatial resolution
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while maintaining the full spectral
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This new triplet configuration
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time from 16 days with Landsat nine

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down to just six days
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and data users a more precise view
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This can help highlight key
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one of the criteria actually
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but also being able
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look at different effects of drought.

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All this stuff can happen very fast,
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this is an important aspect of being able
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Throughout the program's
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to chronicle the surface of our planet
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Landsat next will look to push
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To understand the resolution of Landsat,
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all the way in
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Each pixel of a Landsat eight or nine
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Landsat next looks to improve this
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the resolution allowing us to pinpoint
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this is fantastic.

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So now we'll be actually picking up
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more agricultural fields
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crevasses and ice fields,
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This enhanced spatial resolution
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Thermal bands will also be getting
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dimensions slightly larger than the bottom
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Urban areas like New York City

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to map the temperature of urban areas
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it provides of the Earth's surface,
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are actually collecting data
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boasting an additional 15 spectral bands,

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bringing the total to a whopping 26.

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With more than double
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eight and nine users will be able to glean
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from Landsat next data
allowing for better resource management,

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such as tracking water quality
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coastal waterways, we're experiencing
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those are health concerns
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being able to detect those
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you know, that temporary visit
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The other thing is actually being able
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The melting snow and ice are used

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to recharge water sources,
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So being able to know when those resources
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potential for flooding versus recharge
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said that Landsat superpower is time
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the ability to rewind the clock
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of our planet's surface
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But the true key to unlocking Landsat
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has been the remarkable consistency
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more than that.

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Actually, it's a time machine,

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but it's also a time in space machine,
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it's not only being able
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and give in a consistent picture
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There's a consistency in the measurements

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there's consistency in the way
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The reason why this is so important
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Will there be changes in vegetation
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that we want to make sure that that we're
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Landsat has been historically
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for calibration of many different missions
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the radiometric quality for Landsat
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as any previous Landsat.

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So we will maintain that standard
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for all missions Landsat
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Six day temporal revisit.

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Enhanced spatial resolution
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all add up to a massive amount of data.

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Landsat eight and nine
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with Landsat next trio of satellites,
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over 2200 scenes per day
More scenes means more data

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this will be a huge increase
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this means we're not going to be
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Get ready to be doing all your data
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missing data volume
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one challenge on on Landsat next.

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once we get that data to the ground,
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who operate the ground network
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transmission and then publish it
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for all these users
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I can't stress enough how exciting that is
for, any small university

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to be able to sign up
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It's still early days for the Landsat next

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mission, slated for launch in late 2030.

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There's no shortage of work
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but plans for the new triplet

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constellation,
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and added spectral bands
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our mission right now is really a quantum
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That's
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since the launch of Lance S7 in we launch

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in 2030, it'll be the biggest improvement
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very, very excited.

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I can't wait to see what comes out

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of all of these emerging applications
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Over the life of the Landsat program,
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has more than doubled,
leading to increasing pressure

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on precious resources
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But time and time again, Landsat
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to highlight humankind's innate ability
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enabling us to develop better
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by helping farmers
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and efficiently manage
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by guiding forestry management
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areas at risk for wildfires
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or by contributing to conservation
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Monitoring and assessing the biodiversity
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Landsat next will look
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50 year legacy,
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we live on this planet Earth.

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We all know that we want to leave
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We know the importance of sustainability.

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it's about helping us manage the planet
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And that's why it's there
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And expect it to be there
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about there's there's two things
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What am I most excited about in Landsat?

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you know, and you've you've
you've done this, too.

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Is that the sheer volume of data
with Landsat next is going to be enormous.

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And that means
we're not going to be downloading data.

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I never like downloading data.

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It's a waste of time.

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I think anybody that's downloading
anything from the web, they know it's a

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that's a no one likes to sit there
and wait for data to come to them.

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They'd rather be something else. And

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start working with the data
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too, especially as we get
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I think that's going to be huge
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because there's going to be
so much of the data I've already bragged

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that we're going to have
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I've bragged that we're going to have more
spectral brands bins.

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I've bragged that,
you know, we're we're going to have

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higher, higher everything, more data,
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capability

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than than than we've used in the past.

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And I think this is going to open up
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in terms of what we can do with the data.

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Some people are scared about that,
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and a new way of of analyzing the data.

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It gets me really excited.

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The other thing I'm excited

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by is, is the fact that we always seem
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The more we keep studying,
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the more we I guess my previous

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project scientist
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things, the more

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the more observations.

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And the longer we keep studying something,
the more we uncover.

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even some of the observation,
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put forth by Einstein
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The more data we come up with, we
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We keep developing new theories.

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I think there's nothing that doesn't
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and more time, and I think that's
true with Landsat next to.