The Kansas Applied Remote Sensing (KARS) Program at the University of Kansas is making available to interested researchers copies of Landsat 7 Thematic Mapper data of the Yellowstone area. At present, we have some of the 1999 data online; we will be adding the remainder of the 1999 data and the 2000 data as time permits.

Useful Links:

About Landsat 7 TM data
Landsat 7 information
Where is Landsat 7 right now ?
NASA's Landsat 7 web page]

Bands included in the downloads:
Landsat bands 4,3, and 2 are the near-infrared, red, and green reflected light, respectively. Assigning bands 4,3,2 to color channels red, green, and blue produces a "false color composite" very similar to color-infrared aerial photography, where vegetation is shown in shades of red. 
Landsat bands 3, 2, and 1 are the red, green, and blue reflected light, respectively. Assigning bands 3,2,1 to color channels red, green, and blue produces a "natural color composite" very similar to what you might see if you were flying over an area in an airplane. 

Format:
All files in GeoTIFF format, rectified to UTM projection, NAD27 datum. Files have been compressed using WinZip compression utility.

File size:
WARNING: Many of the files are quite large, and consequently we are offering only some of the subsets for download here. We recommend downloading these only if you have a high-speed Internet connection (not a modem). If you are interested in obtaining a full scene on CD-ROM, please email Dr. Mark Jakubauskas at the University of Kansas to discuss your needs.

Yellowstone National Park (data cropped to YNP boundary)
(click here for a sample image)
 

Grand Teton National Park:

(Not yet available online; check back soon!)

Full Landsat Scenes:
Complete Landsat TM scenes are organized by path and row.

 

Path 38, Row 29 July 13, 1999 August 14, 1999 Sept. 15, 1999	Path 37, Row 29 August 23, 1999
Path 38, Row 30	Path 37, Row 30 August 23, 1999

Sources for downloadable GIS spatial data of the Yellowstone Area:

• Greater Yellowstone Area Data Clearinghouse
• Greater Yellowstone Area Online Atlas
• Wyoming Spatial data Clearinghouse
• Montana State GIS Data
• Yellowstone National Park GIS Lab Spatial Data