By offering the ability to track wildfires, flooding, land use, infrastructure and urban development, satellite imagery fuels ...

The older Landsat satellites use a whisk-broom technology which is many fewer detectors scanning back and forth with a mechanical scanner,” —Del Jenstrom, LDCM deputy project manager, in SpaceFlight ...

The Landsat Multispectral Scanner System (MSS) sensor was onboard Landsat-1 through Landsat-5. In fact, the MSS sensors provide the only systematic global multispectral space-based imagery of the ...

RIT researchers have been a partner with Landsat projects for decades, and a group is now helping the program prepare for its next iteration with Landsat Next. Landsat is a NASA/USGS program that ...

The technique, which uses imagery captured by the Landsat program, works specifically to determine ocean depth, or bathymetry, in shallow, nearshore environments. Landsat, the longest-running ...

Since the 1970s, Raytheon has supported the Landsat mission. In 1972, the company built the Multi Spectral Scanner (MSS), launched on the Earth Resources Technology Satellite, later renamed Landsat 1.

That day, July 23, 1972, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) co-launched the first satellite, Landsat-1, in the Landsat program ...

Norwood was a physicist, and the person primarily responsible for designing and championing the scanner that made the program possible. NASA has called her "the mother of Landsat." At the dawn of ...

Ms. Norwood, a physicist, was the person primarily responsible for designing and championing the scanner that made the program possible. NASA has called her “the mother of Landsat.” ...