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Day: January 22, 2013

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Meeting Spotlight

Information on the professional meetings and workshops the Landsat EPO team has been involved with.       2010 Apr. 29 • Jeannie Allen served on

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Urban Landsat: Cities from Space (external site) A website featuring Landsat images of 77 international cities published by the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). Each

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Landsat.org (external link) Michigan State University’s Landsat.org supports the purchasing, distribution, and sharing of Landsat 7 imagery worldwide by providing a simplified, platform-independent user interface and

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*The TerraLook interface is no longer operational as of January 2017 TerraLook provides both ASTER and Landsat data as simulated natural-color JPEG images. TerraLook aims

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Landsat Spacecraft Orbit

Source: The Landsat Tutorial Workbook This schematic appears in The Landsat Tutorial Workbook: Basics of Satellite Remote Sensing, written by Dr. Nicholas Short and published by

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Seasonal Illumination Variations

Source: Landsat-6 Programming and Control Handbook This schematic appears in the Landsat-6 Programming and Control Handbook that was prepared by Martin Marietta Astro Space in 1993. Like

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Transverse Mercator Projection

Source: 1983 Landsat Short Course Lecture This schematic appears in the handbook that accompanied the1983 Landsat Short Course lecture on “TM Data Processing and Correction” that

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ERTS Flight Profile

Source: Earth Resources Technology Satellite Reference Manual This schematic appears in the ERTS Reference Manual that was prepared by General Electric prior to the Landsat 1 (ERTS-1)

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A Lambertian Reflector

Source: The Landsat Tutorial Workbook This schematic diagram depicts the behavior of a perfectly diffuse, or Lambertian, surface. This diagram appears in the The Landsat Tutorial

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What is the Economic Value of Satellite Imagery?

Does remote-sensing information, such as that from Landsat and similar Earth-observing satellites, provide economic benefits to society, and can this value be estimated? Using satellite data for northeastern Iowa, U.S. Geological Survey scientists modeled the relations among land uses, agricultural production, and dynamic nitrate (NO3) contamination of aquifers.

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