The recently published Sept.–Oct. issue of NASA’s The Earth Observer includes a summary of the final activities of the 2018–2023 Landsat Science Team. + Read it here (PDF)
The issue also includes a detailed account of the Sept. 2022 History of NASA and the Environment Symposium. The Landsat 8 and 9 Project Scientist, Christopher Neigh, presented on Landsat’s fifty-year history during the event. + PDF
Another interesting story shared at the History Symposium was the origin story of NASA’s SERVIR program:
“As frequently happens, a chance meeting led to the development of a new NASA applications program. In the late 1990s Dan Irwin had a chance meeting with Tom Seaver—a NASA space archaeologist. Irwin’s first view of a giant Landsat map made him realize that he’d spent years in the field trying to map out what this single satellite image was showing him. The idea emerged that remote sensing could be used not only for learning about the past but also learning about present. Thus developed SERVIR, originally conceived as “one-stop-shop” for data. A NASA Research, Education and Applications Solution Network (REASON) proposal in 2003 bought in USAID as a partner.“
