diff --git a/experiments/ssl4eo/delete_excess.py b/experiments/ssl4eo/delete_excess.py
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..ca7c1a346
--- /dev/null
+++ b/experiments/ssl4eo/delete_excess.py
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
+# Licensed under the MIT License.
+
+import argparse
+import glob
+import os
+import shutil
+
+from tqdm import tqdm
+from tqdm.contrib.concurrent import thread_map
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("root", help="directory to search for scenes")
+    parser.add_argument("--num-workers", type=int, default=10, help="number of threads")
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--length", type=int, default=250000, help="number of scenes to keep"
+    )
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    paths = sorted(glob.glob(os.path.join(args.root, "*")))
+    paths = paths[args.length :]
+
+    if args.num_workers > 0:
+        thread_map(shutil.rmtree, paths, max_workers=args.num_workers)
+    else:
+        for path in tqdm(paths):
+            shutil.rmtree(path)
diff --git a/experiments/ssl4eo/landsat/README.md b/experiments/ssl4eo/landsat/README.md
index 550d5326c..ef56db35b 100644
--- a/experiments/ssl4eo/landsat/README.md
+++ b/experiments/ssl4eo/landsat/README.md
@@ -52,6 +52,12 @@ For each TOA and SR product, we want to create a parallel corpus. This can be do
 $ bash delete_mismatch.sh
 ```
 
+To chop this down to 250K locations, you can then run:
+
+```console
+$ bash delete_excess.sh
+```
+
 You may want to modify `ROOT_DIR`.
 
 ## Compression
diff --git a/experiments/ssl4eo/landsat/delete_excess.sh b/experiments/ssl4eo/landsat/delete_excess.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..ad9dd4757
--- /dev/null
+++ b/experiments/ssl4eo/landsat/delete_excess.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
+# Licensed under the MIT License.
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+# User-specific parameters
+ROOT_DIR=data
+L5_L1="$ROOT_DIR/ssl4eo_l_tm_toa/imgs"
+L7_L1="$ROOT_DIR/ssl4eo_l_etm_toa/imgs"
+L7_L2="$ROOT_DIR/ssl4eo_l_etm_sr/imgs"
+L8_L1="$ROOT_DIR/ssl4eo_l_oli_tirs_toa/imgs"
+L8_L2="$ROOT_DIR/ssl4eo_l_oli_sr/imgs"
+NUM_WORKERS=10
+LENGTH=250000
+
+# Generic parameters
+SCRIPT_DIR=$(cd $(dirname $(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")) && pwd)
+
+time python3 "$SCRIPT_DIR/delete_excess.py" "$L5_L1" --num-workers $NUM_WORKERS --length $LENGTH
+time python3 "$SCRIPT_DIR/delete_excess.py" "$L7_L1" --num-workers $NUM_WORKERS --length $LENGTH
+time python3 "$SCRIPT_DIR/delete_excess.py" "$L7_L2" --num-workers $NUM_WORKERS --length $LENGTH
+time python3 "$SCRIPT_DIR/delete_excess.py" "$L8_L1" --num-workers $NUM_WORKERS --length $LENGTH
+time python3 "$SCRIPT_DIR/delete_excess.py" "$L8_L2" --num-workers $NUM_WORKERS --length $LENGTH