Landsat Adds to World Memory
October 26, 2011
Source: Jan Nelson and Jon Campbell, USGS A United Nations group established to preserve humanity’s documentary history has selected a portion of the U.S. Geological Survey
Source: Jan Nelson and Jon Campbell, USGS A United Nations group established to preserve humanity’s documentary history has selected a portion of the U.S. Geological Survey
Engineers at Orbital Sciences Corporation, Gilbert, AZ mechanically integrated the Operational Land Imager (OLI) onto the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft. The integration took
Source: Washington Post Andy Dantzler, 49, passed away Thursday, October 13, 2011 after suffering a cardiac arrest. Andy graduated from the University of Maryland in
The MSS data collection is among the 245 international documentary collections that make up the Memory of the World Register.
The fifth Forum on Earth Observations met in mid-June in Washington, D.C. to discuss the need for comprehensive earth observation or “environmental intelligence,” as they
Dr. Paul D. Lowman, Jr., an early Landsat affiliate, passed away on Sept. 29, 2011 at age 80. Born in 1931, Dr. Lowman worked with
Martha Anderson, a research scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, uses images from the Landsat satellite program to monitor water use and drought on
Source: USGS Because Landsat imagery covers the entire globe, goes back 35 years, and is now available at no charge, it is of particular value to
