Landsat 4 and 5 Thematic Mapper (TM) imagery collection

Landsat 4 and Landsat 5 carry both the TM (thematic mapper) and the MSS (multi-spectral scanner) sensors, though routine collection of MSS data was terminated in late 1992. The satellites orbit at an altitude of 705 km and provide a 16-day, 233-orbit cycle with a swath overlap that varies from 7 percent at the Equator to nearly 84 percent at 81 degrees north or south latitude. Landsat data is widely used in many fields including geology, agriculture, resource management, climate analysis etc. The Landsat program is jointly managed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the US Geological Survey (USGS). The NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) now also holds the data. The cost of retrieving data from these satellites is now prohibitive and they are now obsolete; in 1993 Landsat 6 failed to achieve orbit but the launch of Landsat 7 in 1999 provided open source data at less than commercial prices. See Landsat 7 article.

Note: Gaining access to the Landsat 4/5 TM data will also automatically give you access to the Landsat 7 etm data also held at the NEODC

Date (Publication): 2007-12-10T02:42:01

Date (Creation): 2007-12-10T02:42:01

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/e964b463ced4f4198f365cccd2633e6e

Citation identifier: NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) / e964b463ced4f4198f365cccd2633e6e

Point of contact

Organisation name	Electronic mail address	Role
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	unknown	Author
NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)	neodc@rl.ac.uk	Custodian
NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)	neodc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor
NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)	neodc@rl.ac.uk	pointofContact
NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)	neodc@rl.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Update scope: Series

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Access to data within this collection is restricted. Please see the individual datasets within this collection for further access details.

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/landsat7etm_conditions.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under academic use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1984-03-01T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Name	Version
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Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)		neodc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/e964b463ced4f4198f365cccd2633e6e	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.neodc.rl.ac.uk/conditions/landsat7etm_conditions.html	Landsat7 ETM and Landsat4/5 TM datasets conditions of use

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.landcover.org/index.shtml	Global Land Cover Facility website

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://geol.hu/data/online_help/Opening_External_Files.html	How to open ESA CEOS Landsat format files

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.geo-airbusds.com/	Infoterra - supplier of Landsat 4 & 5 TM data

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.cgg.com/default.aspx?cid=5837	NPA Group - supplier of Landsat 4 & 5 TM data

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.neodc.rl.ac.uk/images/data_pages/landsat45_fig_1.jpg	Image of Landsat-4

Hierarchy level: Series

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Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.

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File identifier: e964b463ced4f4198f365cccd2633e6e XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Series

Hierarchy level name: series

Date stamp: 2026-03-08T03:29:29

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)		neodc@rl.ac.uk	Point of contact

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