“While Landsat instruments are fundamentally just electro-optical transducers that ingest photons and eject a digital bit stream, this transduction relies upon the state of the art in numerous technologies including optics, precision electromechanics, detectors, advanced materials, cryogenics, and signal processing.”
— Aram Mika
July 31, 1997 •
"Three Decades of Landsat Instruments," PE&RS
“By seeing in electromagnetic increments beyond the normal range of human vision, Landsat revealed whole new worlds hidden within the folds of a familiar world we thought we knew so well.”
— Stephen S. Hall
February 11, 1992 •
Mapping the Next Millennium
