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The French government has agreed to open its Spot optical Earth observation data archive and distribute, free of charge to noncommercial users, Spot satellite data that is at least five years old. The Jan. 23 announcement by the French space agency, CNES, followed a French government commitment made Jan. 17 during a meeting in Geneva of the 80 governments that comprise the Group on Earth Observations (GEO). imagespot France to make older Spot images available to researchers for freeCNES said its decision was made in concert with Airbus Defence and Space, formerly named Astrium Services, which since 2008 has been the majority shareholder in the company that commercializes Spot data. CNES said the move to open up access to Spot imagery, which dates from 1986, “is the first major contribution from the private sector to the construction of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS).” CNES has already begun processing, at its own charge, a first tranche of 100,000 images that will be available later this year. source : spacenews via http://mundogeo.com/en/blog/2014/01/24/france-to-make-older-spot-images-available-to-researchers-for-free/

Jan 23, 2014 • [source: USGS Landsat] An incorrect bias adjustment for Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) data was discovered in the latest release of the Landsat 8 processing system, which has caused a significant error in the TIRS products produced from Landsat 8 scenes acquired from January 14, 2014 to January 23, 2014. (The Operational Land Imager (OLI) bands are not affected.) All Landsat 8 scenes processed between January 14 and January 23 will be purged from the online cache and will become available for on demand order processing. An estimated 3 percent absolute radiometric error is observed and the errors do cause significant striping and banding in bands 10 and 11. More details are available on the Landsat 8 Calibration Notices webpage:http://landsat.usgs.gov/calibration_notices.php.

this is interesting, now we have another option beside landsat, ehehehe, looking forward for this

Amazing.. For the first time, the "Hollande" government do something right, but take care he's a loser incompetent. Anyway, it's an interesting info.