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LEAP: Landsat Extended Acquisitions of the Poles Imaging Plan

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2022-01-01
End Date
2052-12-31

Citation

Scambos, T., Shuman, C., Fahnestock, M., Snow, T., and Crawford, C., 2024, LEAP: Landsat Extended Acquistions of the Poles Imaging Plan: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P13EDO3K.

Summary

Landsat Extended Acquisitions of the Poles (LEAP) imaging plan is a Landsat special request data collection program for Earth's polar regions that include Antarctica, Greenland, and Arctic sea ice geographies. The LEAP program includes Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 observatories that operationally acquire spaceborne images of all Earth's land surface and near-shore coastal environments. These images are acquired on a Worldwide Reference System-2, also called WRS-2. The WRS-2 is made up of paths and rows that define Landsat's imaged geography, and once acquired, are processed and discoverable in the U.S. Geological Survey's Landsat global data archive. The LEAP path-rows listed in the attached zipped data file represent image acquisitions [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Christopher J Crawford
Originator :
Ted Scambos, Christopher Shuman, Mark Fahnestock, Tasha Snow, Christopher J Crawford
Metadata Contact :
Christopher J Crawford
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
SDC Data Owner :
Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center
USGS Mission Area :
Core Science Systems
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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LEAP Imaging Plan.xml
“LEAP metadata”
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		8.52 KB application/fgdc+xml
Antarctic LEAP.jpg
“Antarctic LEAP map” 		thumbnail 506.7 KB image/jpeg
Greenland LEAP.jpg
“Greenland LEAP map” 		thumbnail 297.93 KB image/jpeg
Arctic Sea Ice LEAP.jpg
“Arctic Sea Ice LEAP map” 		thumbnail 232.09 KB image/jpeg
LEAP Data.zip
“LEAP data” 		2.58 KB application/zip

Purpose

The LEAP data have been collected by special request to monitor twilight changes in Antarctic, Greenland, and Arctic ice sheet interiors, ice shelves, outlet glaciers, coastal ocean temperatures, sea ice, and coastal ocean polynyas. The appropriate use of the data is for scientific analysis.
Antarctic LEAP map
Antarctic LEAP map

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  • Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS)
  • USGS Data Release Products

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P13EDO3K

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