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The Landsats Satellites
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The idea of a satellite that could produce images of a civilian Earth was first thought of in the Department of Interior in the mid-1960’s. On July 23, 1972, NASA launched the first Landsat Satellite. It was designed to take provide images of the earth’s land masses. It used a Nimbus platform th ....
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....face. They carried return beam vidicon (RBV) cameras and the MSS sensor. The MSS sensor scanned the Earth’s surface from west to east as the satellite moved in its north-to-south orbit over the sunlit side of the Earth. Six detectors for each spectral band provided six scan lines on each active scan. The perseverance of the MSS sensor was about 80 m with radiometric coverage in four spectral bands from the green to near-infrared wavelengths. The Landsat 3 was the only one to have a MSS sens.... |
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