STAC Collection: LANDSAT-5
Landsat-5 was launched on 1 March 1984 and the mission ended on 5 June 2013. It launched the Thematic Mapper (TM) which was a multispectral scanning radiometer operating in the visible and Infra-Red regions of the Electromagnetic Spectrum. It was characterized by 185 km swath width and 30 m resolution for visible (VIS), near infrared (NIR) and shortwave infrared (SWIR) while 120 m resolution for thermal infrared. The acquired Landsat TM scene covers approximately 183 x 172.8 km. The objective of Landsat-5 and any other Landsat mission was to image repetitively Earth's land and coastal areas with the aim of monitoring changes to those areas over time.