Operational Land Imager

OLI structure
Satellite image of the Thames Estuary taken by OLI

The Operational Land Imager (OLI) is a remote sensing instrument aboard Landsat 8, built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies. Landsat 8 is the successor to Landsat 7 and was launched on February 11, 2013.[1]

OLI is a push broom scanner that uses a four-mirror telescope with fixed mirrors.

  1. ^ Gerace, Aaron D.; Schott, John R.; Nevins, Robert (January 2013). "Increased potential to monitor water quality in the near-shore environment with Landsat's next-generation satellite". Journal of Applied Remote Sensing. 7: 073558. Bibcode:2013JARS....7.3558G. doi:10.1117/1.JRS.7.073558. 073558.