News DEA Landsat Collection Upgrade

Digital Earth Australia is nearing completion of the Geoscience Australia Landsat Collection 3 upgrade project. This is the culmination of 2 years of work to reprocess our foundation datasets using improved source data from the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

For more information on the differences between Geoscience Australia Collection 2 and GA Collection 3 source data, please see Geoscience Australia Landsat Collection Upgrade webinar.

Users of Geoscience Australia Collection 2 are encouraged to use Geoscience Australia Collection 3 data. Please see the following DEA Notebooks for using Geoscience Australia Collection 3 Surface Reflectance NBART data, Fractional Cover and Water Observations.

Planned stages

• 17 January 2022 – Public access to the NCI folders rs0 will be removed.
• 17 January 2022 – GSKY-based Geoscience Australia C2-related web services will be decommissioned.
• 31 January 2022 – Most Geoscience Australia C2 products will be removed from fk4 on the NCI (the remaining data will be retained).
• 31 March 2022 – All GA C2 products will be removed from the AWS.

Below shows a mapping of Geoscience Australia Collection 2 products that will be deprecated into the Geoscience Australia Collection 3 products that will replace them.

These Geoscience Australia Collection 2 products will become unavailable on the NCI from January 2022 and on AWS from March 2022.