Landsat 7 Satellite Imagery of the Legal Amazon Region

Landsat 7 ETM+ imagery covering the legal Amazon rain forest. The data can be browsed and ordered online by WRS2 path, row, acquisition date, and file format via the Tropical Rain Forest Information Center (TRFIC). The data set is provided by the organization SCIOPS.

Use Cases

• Analyze deforestation rates by comparing image pixels across different acquisition dates.
• Classify land cover types (e.g., forest, agriculture, water) using spectral bands from the ETM+ sensor.
• Monitor forest health and biomass through vegetation indices calculated from specific spectral bands.
• Assess burn scars and fire impacts by analyzing thermal infrared band data.
• Create land cover change maps by stacking and classifying multi-temporal imagery ordered by WRS2 path and row.

Strengths

• Imagery from the Landsat 7 satellite, a well-calibrated and widely used Earth observation platform.
• Coverage spans the entire legal Amazon region, a major area of ecological interest.
• Data is structured for selection by standard WRS2 path/row coordinates and acquisition date.

Limitations

• Dataset size, row count, and specific temporal coverage are not provided.
• Data may be subject to policy and pricing restrictions as noted by the provider.
• Landsat 7 imagery after 2003 is affected by the Scan Line Corrector (SLC) failure, creating data gaps.

Provenance

Source

Tropical Rain Forest Information Center (TRFIC), sourced from NASA/USGS Landsat 7.

Collection Method

Acquired via the Landsat 7 ETM+ satellite sensor.

Time Range

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Freshness

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Geography

Legal Amazon rain forest region.