Landsat and beyond : sustaining and enhancing the nation's land imaging program /

"In 1972 NASA launched the Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ETRS), now known as Landsat 1, and on February 11, 2013 launched Landsat 8. Currently the United States has collected 40 continuous years of satellite records of land remote sensing data from satellites similar to these. Even thou...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2013]
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Summary
  • Imperative for a sustained and enhanced land imaging program
  • Technical characteristics of the core program
  • Enhancing a sustained land imaging program
  • Data systems
  • Opportunities on the path forward
  • Appendixes
  • Cover credits.