# OLI (Operational Land Imager)
*sensor . products*

Multispectral pushbroom optical imager, primary instrument on Landsat 8 (launched 11 February 2013). Built by Ball Aerospace under NASA contract; Ball acquired by BAE Systems on 16 February 2024. NASA owns the space segment; USGS operates the ground segment and distributes data at no cost. 9 spectral bands across visible/NIR/SWIR plus panchromatic and cirrus, 30 m GSD (15 m panchromatic), 185 km swath, 12-bit acquisition. Combined 8-day revisit with Landsat 9 OLI-2 underpins GLAD-L pantropical deforestation alerts and the Hansen Global Forest Change annual dataset.

## Specifications
- **product status**: operational
- **manufacturer**: nasa
- **sensor**: {"instrument_family":"passive-optical","measurement_principle":"passive","spectral_range_nm":{"min":430,"max":2300},"spectral_band_count":9,"gsd_m":{"native":30,"resampled":15},"swath_km":185,"bit_depth":12}
- **last verified date**: "2026-05-18T00:00:00.000Z"
- **verified by**: agency-doc
- **claim status**: agency-verified
- **deployment context**: orbital

## Compositional position
- landsat-8 (missions) --[mission_payloads]--> OLI (Operational Land Imager)

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