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''The MSS radiometrically-corrected digital data pioneered quantitative satellite remote sensing, taking the science of Earth observation digital, where it has stayed ever since...''
''The MSS radiometrically-corrected digital data pioneered quantitative satellite remote sensing, taking the science of Earth observation digital, where it has stayed ever since...''
Read Virginia's story -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/LANDSAT_and_Virginia_Tower_Norwood





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'Multispectral', Digital and Dynamic -- https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/


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Over Five Decades of Unique Earth Science Imaging from Space

A Profoundly Vital Resource of Digital Data Mapping Earth's Systems
Beginning with the Work of 'the MSS', the Multispectral Scanning System


Planet Citizens, Landsat Visionaries - George E. Brown & Virginia Tower Norwood

George E. Brown Jr --- LANDSAT and Virginia Tower Norwood


The Multispectral Scanning System

Virginia Tower Norwood decided to quantize the MSS data into 6-bits. Both image data and calibration data (from the onboard internal lamp calibrator) were sent to the ground digitally. Even though the digital MSS data had a small dynamic range (able to show only 64 different radiance values), it could be calibrated, so images could be confidently compared from date-to-date and place-to-place.

The MSS radiometrically-corrected digital data pioneered quantitative satellite remote sensing, taking the science of Earth observation digital, where it has stayed ever since...

Read Virginia's story -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/LANDSAT_and_Virginia_Tower_Norwood


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50th + Anniversary of Landsat


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http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Landsat8DataUsersHandbook.pdf


Envisioned as an Intergenerational Science Mission

The first land-focused Earth-observation satellite, Landsat 1 (initially called the 'Earth Resources Technology Satellite-1 / ERTS-1) is launched to Earth orbit from Vandenberg, CA.

Beginnings of Earth Science from Space #RemoteSensing #AtmosphericScience #EarthScience #OceanScience


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