# OLI-2 (Operational Land Imager-2)
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Multispectral pushbroom optical imager, primary instrument on Landsat 9 (launched 27 September 2021; USGS operational control from 11 August 2022). Built by Ball Aerospace (acquired by BAE Systems February 2024) under NASA contract. Same 9-band configuration as OLI on Landsat 8, but upgraded to 14-bit quantization (vs 12-bit), yielding 16,384 vs 4,096 grey levels and improving radiometric discrimination of dark targets including closed-canopy tropical forest. 30 m GSD (15 m panchromatic), 185 km swath, 705 km sun-synchronous orbit. With Landsat 8 OLI provides 8-day combined revisit, the operational base for GLAD-L pantropical deforestation alerts.

## Specifications
- **product status**: operational
- **manufacturer**: nasa
- **sensor**: {"instrument_family":"passive-optical","measurement_principle":"passive","spectral_range_nm":{"min":430,"max":2290},"spectral_band_count":9,"gsd_m":{"native":30,"resampled":15},"swath_km":185,"bit_depth":14}
- **last verified date**: "2026-05-18T00:00:00.000Z"
- **verified by**: agency-doc
- **claim status**: agency-verified
- **deployment context**: orbital

## Compositional position
- landsat-9 (missions) --[mission_payloads]--> OLI-2 (Operational Land Imager-2)

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