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so it's really exciting to have landsat

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9 data being released for the first time

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this is the culmination of

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really six or seven years of mission

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development everything we see the the

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data quality looks fantastic and and

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operationally it's now collecting

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as much data as landsat 8 does

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landsat is a partnership between nasa

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and the usgs u.s geological survey

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and nasa builds these satellites and

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launches them and checks them out we

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lead that aspect of it usgs leads

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development of the ground system and

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mission operations

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and liftoff

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liftoff of an atlas 5 rocket and landsat

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9. well after we launched on september

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27th of 2021 uh we uh spent a little

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over three months checking out the

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satellite on orbit and the ground and

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operation system as well

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i can't be more proud of this team to to

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bring this mission into its operational

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phase the team has just built a

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wonderful satellite and

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wonderful operations and grout system

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and

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the the data that it produces is just

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spectacular

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and so it means that we have really two

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top quality observatories on orbit at

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the same time which doubles the temporal

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frequency that people can can get this

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really excellent data now every eight

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days and so for things like monitoring

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agriculture monitoring water resources

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anything there where you really want

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that temporal repeat

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um it's going to be fantastic to have

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two of these as i say top quality

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observatories on orbit at the same time

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so what i'm extremely excited about is

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that now with landsat's nine's um

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exceptional calibration and its wide

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dynamic range that's very comparable to

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landsat 8 we're going to get uh data uh

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that has excellent performance at low

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signal levels and then across a really

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high

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signal levels where you have bright

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targets

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we know uh the data is well calibrated

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because then we can monitor

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the instruments on orbit and then we can

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actually run ground campaigns um as the

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these types of observations are really

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designed to verify and characterize and

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validate the quality of the data

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and so i guess what i would say is that

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there have been a lot of people working

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a lot of hours in order to be able to

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deliver this high quality landsat 9

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science data as quickly as possible

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everything we've seen the data quality

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looks fantastic

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we have better data quality in fact than

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we did with landsat 8. so i'm really

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excited to see what people are able to

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do with the data set now that is out