Imaging · collection · 2021
HLS Landsat Operational Land Imager Surface Reflectance and TOA Brightness Daily Global 30m v2.0
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.5067/hls/hlsl30.002
The Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS) project provides consistent surface reflectance (SR) and top of atmosphere (TOA) brightness data from a virtual constellation of satellite sensors.
Description
The Operational Land Imager (OLI) is housed aboard the joint NASA/USGS Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 satellites, while the Multi-Spectral Instrument (MSI) is mounted aboard Europe’s Copernicus Sentinel-2A, Sentinel-2B, and Sentinel-2C satellites.
The combined measurement enables global observations of the land every 1.6 days at 30-meter (m) spatial resolution. The HLS project uses a set of algorithms to obtain seamless products from OLI and MSI that include atmospheric correction, cloud and cloud-shadow masking, spatial co-registration and common gridding, illumination and view angle normalization, and spectral bandpass adjustment. The HLSL30 product provides 30-m Nadir Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF)-Adjusted Reflectance (NBAR) and is derived from Landsat 8/9 OLI data products.
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The HLSS30 and HLSL30 products are gridded to the same resolution and Military Grid Reference System (MGRS) tiling system and thus are “stackable” for time series analysis. The HLSL30 product is provided in Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) format, and each band is distributed as a separate file. There are 11 bands included in the HLSL30 product along with one quality assessment (QA) band and four angle bands.
See the User Guide for a more detailed description of the individual bands provided in the HLSL30 product. The HLS project is funded by NASA’s Satellite Needs Working Group (SNWG) which provides data products developed to meet the needs of stakeholders from US government agencies. For information on known issues see the anomalies link under the Documents and Resources tab.
Links
Get the data
- Resource doi.org/10.5067/hls/hlsl30.002 ↗
The LP DAAC product page provides information on Science Data Set layers and links for user guides, ATBDs, data access, tools, customer support, etc.
landing page · download · DOI / persistent id · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Resource github.com/nasa/HLS-Data-Resources/blob/main/r/HLS_Tutorial.Rmd ↗
Getting Started with Cloud-Native Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS) Data in R
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF lpdaac.usgs.gov/documents/2434/HLS_v2.0_L30_known_issues_April2026.pdf ↗
Listing of known issues as of April 2026 for the HLSL30.002 dataset.
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF lpdaac.usgs.gov/documents/1698/HLS_User_Guide_V2.pdf ↗
The technical information in the User's Guide enables users to interpret and use the data products.
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF lpdaac.usgs.gov/documents/769/HLS_ATBD_V15_provisional.pdf ↗
The ATBD provides physical theory and mathematical procedures for the calculations used to produce the data products.
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Resource github.com/nasa/HLS-Data-Resources/blob/main/python/tutorials/HLS_Tutoria… ↗
Getting Started with Cloud-Native HLS Data in Python is a Jupyter Notebook tutorial.
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF lpdaac.usgs.gov/documents/1117/HLS_Quick_Guide_v02.pdf ↗
The HLS Quick Guide provides directions for accessing the data in Earthdata Search.
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Resource github.com/nasa/HLS-Data-Resources/tree/main/python/scripts/HLS_SuPER ↗
HLS Subsetting, Processing and Exporting Reformatted (HLS SuPER) data prep script is a command line executable Python script that finds, accesses, and processes HLS data according to input criteria.
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Download HLS data from LP DAAC Cloud Archive github.com/nasa/HLS-Data-Resources/tree/main/bash/hls-bulk-download ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Original Metadata cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2021957657-LPCLOUD.iso19115 ↗
download · from data nasa gov
- JPEG data.lpdaac.earthdatacloud.nasa.gov/lp-prod-public/HLSL30.020/HLS.L30.T03WXN.2024206T221402.v2.0/H… ↗
download · preview image · from data nasa gov, NASA CMR
- search.earthdata.nasa.gov /search/granules?p=C2021957657-LPCLOUD ↗
Earthdata Search allows users to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data.
download · from NASA CMR
- appeears.earthdatacloud.nasa.gov ↗
The Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples (AppEEARS) offers a simple and efficient way to perform data access and transformation processes.
download · from NASA CMR
- Resource earthdata.nasa.gov/centers/lp-daac ↗
The LP DAAC website provides detailed information on discovery, distribution, access, and support of land data products.
download · project · from data nasa gov, NASA CMR
- JPEG worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/images/layers/previews/geographic/HLS_L30_Nadir_BRDF_Adjusted_… ↗
The URL for viewing a Worldview visualization. The Worldview tool from NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) provides the capability to interactively browse over 600 globa
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Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/hls-landsat-operational-land-imager-surface-reflectanc… ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
Documentation and papers
- database.eohandbook.com /database/instrumentsummary.aspx?instrumentID=1769 ↗
CEOS Missions, Instruments, and Measurements (MIM) Database Record (Landsat 9 OLI-2)
documentation · from NASA CMR
- database.eohandbook.com /database/instrumentsummary.aspx?instrumentID=897 ↗
CEOS Missions, Instruments, and Measurements (MIM) Database Record (Landsat 8 OLI)
documentation · from NASA CMR
Catalogue records · 3
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2021957657-LPCLOUD.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=f2083b0d-39cc-4a11-a047-aef0033bd… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2021957657-LPCLOUD.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- LANDSAT-8 · LANDSAT-9 · Operational Land Imager · Reflectance
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics · Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science · Physics
- Inferred from text
- Atmospheric sciences 69%
Provenance · 2 source records, 19 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C2021957657-LPCLOUD | 8 d ago | JSON v1 |
| NASA Data Portal | f2083b0d-39cc-4a11-a047-aef0033bdf9b | 5 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:3701 | enrichment · NASA CMR | taxonomy-embedding@1.0.0 | title+keywords+description (69%) |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:physics | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:oli | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/land-surface/surface-radiative-properties/reflectance | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:landsat-8 | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:landsat-9 | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| license_text | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| updated_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |