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The Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) aboard the joint NASA/USGS Landsat 7 satellite was an improved version of the Thematic Mapper instruments that were aboard Landsat 4 and Landsat 5. The ETM+ was a fixed whisk-broom, eight-band, multispectral scanning radiometer that provided high-resolution images of Earth's surface.

Instrument Type

Spectrometers/Radiometers

Instrument Subtype

Imaging Spectrometers/Radiometers

Specifications

Resolution

Spatial

30 m (60 m – thermal, 15 m panchromatic)

Spectral

0.45 – 12.5 µm

Temporal

16 days

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