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    eventually renamed to Landsat 1 in 1975. The most recent, Landsat 9, was launched on 27 September 2021. The instruments on the Landsat satellites have acquired...
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    Landsat 8 is an American Earth observation satellite launched on 11 February 2013. It is the eighth satellite in the Landsat program; the seventh to reach...
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    Landsat 9 is an Earth observation satellite launched on 27 September 2021 from Space Launch Complex-3E at Vandenberg Space Force Base on an Atlas V 401...
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    Landsat 7 is the seventh satellite of the Landsat program. Launched on 15 April 1999, Landsat 7's primary goal is to refresh the global archive of satellite...
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    Landsat 6, equipped with upgraded versions of the instruments on Landsat 5, was designed to carry forward the Landsat program. It was launched on October...
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    Landsat 5 was a low Earth orbit satellite launched on March 1, 1984, to collect imagery of the surface of Earth. A continuation of the Landsat Program...
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    Landsat 5, thermal infrared imagery was also collected (at coarser spatial resolution than the optical data). The Landsat 7, Landsat 8, and Landsat 9...
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    Landsat 4 is the fourth satellite of the Landsat program. It was launched on July 16, 1982, with the primary goal of providing a global archive of satellite...
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    Landsat 1 (LS-1), formerly named ERTS-A and ERTS-1, was the first satellite of the United States' Landsat program. It was a modified version of the Nimbus...
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    Landsat 3 is the third satellite of the Landsat program. It was launched on March 5, 1978, with the primary goal of providing a global archive of satellite...
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    Landsat Island is a small, uninhabited island located at approximately 60°10'37"N 64°02'30"W, 20 kilometres (12 mi) off the northeast coast of Labrador...
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    November 2004, operational Landsat program Landsat 1, launched July 1972, completed Landsat 2, launched January 1975, completed Landsat 3, launched March 1978...
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    Landsat 2 is the second satellite of the Landsat program. The spacecraft originally carried a designation of ERTS-B (Earth Resource Technology Satellite...
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    formats that image processing systems used in the early years of NASA's Landsat program. Thomas was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She graduated from high...
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    renamed to Landsat 1 in 1975. The most recent satellite in the series, Landsat 9, was launched on September 27, 2021. The instruments on the Landsat satellites...
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    weighted sum of the Landsat bands (without the thermal channel 6), where each band is multiplied by the specific coefficients. Early Landsat products: Brightness...
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    to the Landsat program, having designed the Multispectral Scanner which was first used on Landsat 1. She has been called "The Mother of Landsat" for this...
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    Investigator for NASA's Landsat Earth observation programs, contributing to the digital processing and correction of Landsat data.[citation needed] He...
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  • has been developing its Earth Observing System, launching a series of Landsat satellites in the decade. Some of the first included passive microwave...
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    terrestrial habitat features. Simultaneous multi-spectral platforms such as Landsat have been in use since the 1970s. These thematic mappers take images in...
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    Before the launch of NASA and the USGS's Landsat 8 satellite, Google relied partially on imagery from Landsat 7, which suffered from a hardware malfunction...
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    remote sensing instrument aboard Landsat 8, built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies. Landsat 8 is the successor to Landsat 7 and was launched on February...
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    Badwater', a lake only noted after heavy winter and spring rainfall, Badwater Basin, Death Valley National Park, 9 February 2005. Landsat 5 satellite photo...
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  • observing sensors introduced in the Landsat program. A Multispectral Scanner was placed aboard each of the first five Landsat satellites. The scanner was designed...
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    size of scan swath. All sensors aboard the Landsat series of satellites used the whisk broom design until Landsat 8 which used a push broom sensor. Push broom...
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    This land cover map of Nepal using Landsat 30 m (2010) data shows forest cover as the dominant type of land cover in Nepal....
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  • requests was first demonstrated at large scale when AWS started hosting Landsat data on Amazon S3 in 2015. The pattern was developed into the COG within...
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    appears green in the image, a red apple red, a blue sky blue, and so on. Two Landsat satellite images showing the same region: Chesapeake Bay and the city of...
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    Absheron Peninsula satellite image, Landsat 5, 6 September 2010...
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    Generation imagery Landsat 7 imagery NLT Landsat (Visible & Pseudo Color) Geocover 1990 & 2000 (pseudo; 1990 layer was produced from Landsat 4 & 5 images)...
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