SAIC Offers Custom Processed Landsat Scenes: Details

A press release from SAIC details its “innovative, web-based processing system delivering custom Landsat imagery directly to customer desktops.” Recall that you can download imagery free from USGS and process it yourself. But if you want, you can have SAIC do it. I dug around for the details not included in the release.

Here are the answers to the questions I had after reading the release (from the company’s Landsat ImagePlace):

- prices start at $100/scene, chart of pricing includes prices to $250/scene
- A 20% volume discount will be applied to all orders of 20 or more scenes.
- the resulting products are referred to as the Landsat Transformer Product Line
- the things you can customize from the Landsat 5 TM and Landsat 7 ETM+ archive include:
——-Gap-filling for ETM+ SLC-off images
——-Projection, cell size, and resampling method
——-Scaled Radiance or Top-of-Atmosphere processing levels
——-Bands or Multispectral Indices of interest
——-Output file format
——-Surface reflectance coming soon!
- delivery via download
- time to delivery is based on delivery of original scene from USGS: “Orders will be completed within 5 business days of receipt of source data from USGS. Landsat 7 ETM+ and most Landsat 5 data take up to 3 days to acquire from USGS. Some of the earlier Landsat 5 TM acquisitions may take up to 12 weeks to obtain from the USGS archive.”
- samples available
- another product line, where you can build a custom scene from raw data is expected
- SAIC has had technical contracts in the Landsat program in the past