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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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    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 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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    satellite had a very similar designs to Landsat 1 and Landsat 2. Landsat 3 was built by GE Aerospace. The objective of Landsat 3 was to extend the period of space...
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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 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 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 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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    Labrador). It was discovered in 1976 during the analysis of imagery from the Landsat 1 satellite. The island is only 25 by 45 metres (82 ft × 148 ft), with a...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • Star 1 - most distant star detected, sometimes abbreviated to LS1 Nexaer LS1, American light-sport aircraft Rolladen-Schneider LS1 glider Landsat 1, satellite...
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    spectral index by Kriegler et al. in 1969. Soon after the launch of ERTS-1 (Landsat-1), Compton Tucker of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center produced a series...
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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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  • may refer to: Erts, a village in Andorra Landsat 1, originally named "Earth Resources Technology Satellite 1" Electronic Arts ERT (disambiguation) This...
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    Earlier examples of digital cameras included the Multi Spectral Scanner on Landsat 1, which took digital photographs of Yosemite before it was launched in...
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  • bond theory, of superconductivity Return Beam Vidicon, on the satellites Landsat 1-5 Raymond van Barneveld (born 1967), Dutch professional darts player This...
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    1972, the technology had yet to catch up with the concept. In 1972, the Landsat 1 satellite's multispectral scanner (MSS) started taking digital images...
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  • know it today started with the first earth orbiting satellite Landsat 1 in 1973. Landsat 1 delivered the first multi-spectral images of features on land...
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    boosters were used to launch both Landsat 2 in 1975 and Landsat 3 in 1978. On 7 April 1978, a Delta 2914 launched "Yuri 1", the first Japanese BSE Broadcasting...
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    capacity, he was responsible for transferring NASA technology (primarily Landsat 1 applications) to the outside world and working with technology users (including...
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    media and among the public. Also in 1972 the United States started the Landsat program, the largest program for acquisition of imagery of Earth from space...
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  • for NASA, NOAA, USDA; using Landsat 1 data in the first large-scale use of remote sensing; lead by Valerie Thomas; see Landsat program Lacie Road (KY 3321)...
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    R. (1975). "On the Use of the Earth Resources Technology Satellite ( LANDSAT-1 ) in Optical Oceanography". Remote Sensing of Environment. 4: 95–128....
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  • boosters were used to launch both Landsat 2 in 1975 and Landsat 3 in 1978. On 7 April 1978, a Delta 2914 launched "Yuri 1", the first Japanese BSE Broadcasting...
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    Seville, Spain, kills 76 people. July 23 – The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite. July 24 – Jigme Singye Wangchuck...
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  • Weeks after the grain deal was announced, the Earth-observing satellite Landsat 1 achieved orbit. If the satellite had launched a few months earlier, the...
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    am. Nine days earlier, ERTS-1 (launched on July 23, 1972) was renamed Landsat 1 while in orbit above the Earth. Landsat 2 was removed from service on...
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