Easy Landsat 9 Band Combination and Pansharpening with Blend Modes

The shiny new Landsat 9 earth imaging satellite is now live and beaming down glorious data to us. Here's how to grab fresh Landsat layers and merge the bands together into a full color composite, and also how to do a mega-easy version of pansharpening with the higher resolution panchromatic band, in ArcGIS Pro.

Check this blog post for some more background and a list of the steps: https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/prod...

Download the latest Landsat 9 data: https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/

Learn more about the available bands: https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-are-ba...

Thanks to Joshua Stevens for his help: https://www.joshuastevens.net/

Learn from The Captain about how weird (and imaginary) color is, and how we process electromagnetic wavelengths and interpret them in our brains as colors:    • CD / Color  

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