{"id":492372,"date":"2019-04-16T10:46:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T17:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=492372"},"modified":"2019-05-03T16:07:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T23:07:13","slug":"retiring-esris-original-landsat-gls-services","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-online\/imagery\/retiring-esris-original-landsat-gls-services","title":{"rendered":"Stay Current with Landsat Image Services"},"author":7071,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22931],"tags":[375832,375822,25041,375812],"industry":[],"product":[36551],"class_list":["post-492372","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imagery","tag-change-matters","tag-imagery-arcgisonline-com","tag-landsat","tag-landsat-gls","product-arcgis-online"],"acf":{"short_description":"Most users are already leveraging the latest and greatest Landsat layers and services from the Living Atlas of the World.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>Esri provides Landsat image services for analysis and visualization.\u00a0 Since our first Landsat GLS services were made publicly available, design and implementation improvements have led to the creation and publication of improved services.<\/p>\n<p>Most users are already leveraging the <a href=\"https:\/\/livingatlas.arcgis.com\/en\/browse\/#d=2&amp;cont=esriOnly&amp;q=Landsat&amp;categories=Imagery:1111\">latest and greatest Landsat layers and services. <\/a>\u00a0However, there may be a few users who should be aware that the original services have been retired.<\/p>\n<p>The original Landsat GLS services and layers from <strong>imagery.arcgisonline.com<\/strong> were in <a href=\"http:\/\/downloads2.esri.com\/support\/TechArticles\/Product-Life-Cycle.pdf\">Mature Support<\/a> and set for retirement for over a year.\u00a0 As of April 16th, 2019, those services are officially retired.\u00a0 Any users with existing layers and web maps referencing the old ArcGIS Online GLS services need to migrate to the currently supported layers and services.\u00a0 This includes users on Enterprise Portal versions 10.5 through 10.6.1.<\/p>\n<p>All the imagery from the retired services is still available through our current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=d9b466d6a9e647ce8d1dd5fe12eb434b\">Multispectral Landsat<\/a> image layer, which includes both historic GLS imagery and current Landsat 8 imagery.\u00a0 We also provide a pre-filtered GLS only view, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=52484b28322542ce97cff79046978f9e\">Landsat GLS Multispectral<\/a>.\u00a0 For additional options, users can find other Landsat layers available in the <a href=\"https:\/\/livingatlas.arcgis.com\/en\/browse\/#d=2&amp;cont=esriOnly&amp;q=Landsat&amp;categories=Imagery:1111\">ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World<\/a>.\u00a0 Users of the old Change Matters app are now being routed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/arcgis\/landsat\">Unlock Earth\u2019s Secrets<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/landsatexplorer.esri.com\/\">Landsat Explorer App<\/a>.<\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":7071,"user_firstname":"Robert","user_lastname":"Waterman","nickname":"Robert Waterman","user_nicename":"robe9031","display_name":"Robert Waterman","user_email":"RWaterman@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:19:16","user_description":"Robert Waterman leads the ArcGIS Living Atlas Imagery Team at Esri. 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