The Landsat 7 Processing System (LPS) processes Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM-+) instrument data into large, contiguous segments called “subintervals.” The LPS-processed subinterval products must be subsetted and reformatted before the Level 1 processing systems can ingest them. The initial full subintervals produced by the LPS are stored mainly in HDF Earth Observing System (HDF-EOS) format, an extension to the Hierarchical Data Format (HDF). The final LOR products are stored in native HDF. The HDF and HDF-EOS application programming interfaces (APIs) can be used for extensive data subsetting and data reorganization. How the HDF and HDF-EOS APIs may be used to efficiently subset, format, and organize Landsat 7 LOR data to create various configurations of LOR products is discussed.

Date Published: 23 August 2000
PDF: 9 pages
Proc. SPIE 4049, Algorithms for Multispectral, Hyperspectral, and Ultraspectral Imagery VI, (23 August 2000); doi: 10.1117/12.410354

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 4049:
Algorithms for Multispectral, Hyperspectral, and Ultraspectral Imagery VI
Sylvia S. Shen; Michael R. Descour, Editor(s)