Publications

HLS citation information:

For HLS v2.0, cite this publication:

  • Junchang Ju, Qiang Zhou, Brian Freitag, David P. Roy, Hankui K. Zhang, Madhu Sridhar, John Mandel, Saeed Arab, Gail Schmidt, Christopher J. Crawford, Ferran Gascon, Peter A. Strobl, Jeffrey G. Masek, Christopher S.R. Neigh. (2025). The Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 version 2.0 surface reflectance dataset. Remote Sensing of Environment, 324, 114723. [Publication link] 

For HLS Vegetation Indices product, cite this publication:

  • Q. Zhou et al., “Global uncertainty assessment of vegetation indices from NASA’s Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 Project,” Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 332, p. 115084, Jan. 2026, doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2025.115084.

Spotlighted Publications

  • Zhou, Q.; Neigh, C. S. R.; Ju, J.; Dabney, P.; Cook, B.; Zhu, Z.; Crawford, C. J.; Gascon, F.; Strobl, P.; Sridhar, M. Towards Seamless Global 30-Meter Terrestrial Monitoring: Evaluating 2022 Cloud Free Coverage of Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) V2.0. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (2025), 1–1. https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2025.3533923.

HLS Team Publications & Presentations

Conference Proceedings and Presentations

  • AGU 2025
    • Ju et al., “View Angle Effect Characterization at the 30-m Scale in NASA Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 Data”,
    • Sridhar, M et al., “Overview and Future Outlook of NASA’s Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) Project”, B34B-04
  • IEEE IGARSRS 2025
    • Leite, R.; Zhou, Q.; Wooten, M.; Wagner, W.; and Neigh C.S.R. (2025) Multitemporal features from Harmonized Landsat-Sentinel-2-derived vegetation indices for tropical forest characterization.  Oral presentation conducted at the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium in Brisbane Australia. https://www.2025.ieeeigarss.org/view_paper.php?PaperNum=3316&SessionID=1484
    • Zhou, Q.; Feng, M.; Ju, J.*; Channan, S.; Sexton, J.; Wang, P.; Wooten, M.; and Neigh C.S.R. (2025) Comparison of NASA harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) surface reflectance products with MODIS.  Oral presentation conducted at the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium in Brisbane Australia. https://www.2025.ieeeigarss.org/view_paper.php?PaperNum=3819&SessionID=1538
  • Living Planet Symposium 2025
    • Ju, J.; Zhou, Q.; Freitag, B.; Sridhar, M.; and Neigh, C.S.R. (2025) The NASA harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 Version 2.0 surface reflectance dataset.  Oral presentation conducted at the ESA Living Planet Symposium in Vienna Austria. 
    • Vo. T et al., “Continuous Change Detection and Classification (CCDC) Using NASA’s Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) Data in Google Earth Engine (GEE)”, Poster Presentation at the ESA Living Planet Symposium in Vienna Austria
  • IEEE IGARSS 2024
    • Ju, J.; Neigh, C. S. R.; Freitag, B.; Zhou, Q.; Sridhar, M.; Masek, J. A Pilot Study of 10 Day Composites from the NASA Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 Images for Terrestrial Monitoring. In IGARSS 2024 – 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium; (2024); pp 6864–6866. https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10641064
  • AGU 2024
    • 2024 Madhu Sridhar, “An Update on NASA’s Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) Project”,  AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 2024, B14A-06 [Presentation link]  
    • Zhou et al., “Global Assessment of Consistency and Uncertainty in Vegetation Indices from NASA’s Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 Project”,  AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 2024 (1394), B11G-1394
  • AGU 2023
    • Zhou, Q. et al., “Quantitative assessment of the HLS surface reflectance consistency”, AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 2023 (645), IN43C-0645
    • Sridhar, M. et al., “Assessment of Atmospheric Correction Methods on Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) Products”, AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 2023 (6), EP34B-0