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Fig. 4 | Ecological Processes

Fig. 4

From: Current and near-term advances in Earth observation for ecological applications

Fig. 4

Comparison of Landsat-7, Landsat-8, and Landsat-9 bands with Sentinel-2, ASTER, and MODIS bands. Band widths, wavelength locations, and spectral region: VIS—blue, green, and red, NIR—lavender; SWIR 1— earth orange and SWIR—2 brick red; rose-colored bands are TIR. The band numbers for MODIS bands (Bottom Row 1) are shown in order of wavelength, in colors matching the bands: 8, 9, 3, 10—blue; 11, 12, 4—green; 1, 13, 14—red; 15, 2, 16, 17, 19—lavender; 5, 26—light blue; 6—earth orange; 7—brick red; 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36—rose. The narrow band 18 (931–941 nm) is not represented in this figure because it is within the wavelength range of band 19 (915–965 nm). Band 18 is located in the atmospheric water vapor absorption feature and contributes to the MODIS Precipitable Water Product. ASTER’s 14 bands (Row 2) range in size from 15 to 90 m, as shown. Landsat-7 and Landsat-8 (Rows 3 and 4) optical bands have 30 m pixels and thermal bands with 120 m (L-7) or 100 m (L-8). Sentinel-2 (Top Row 5) has 13 optical bands at either 10 m, 20 m, or 60 m spatial resolution and no TIR bands. Figure from https://twitter.com/usgslandsat/status/773939936755982336

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