Landsat will celebrate fifty years of Earth Observation (EO) this weekend. The first Landsat mission was Earth Resources Technology Satellite 1 (ERTS-1), which was launched into a 570-mile sun-synchronous near polar orbit on the 23 July 1972 by a Delta … Continue reading
Landsat has celebrated forty-five years of Earth observation this week. The first Landsat mission was Earth Resources Technology Satellite 1 (ERTS-1), which was launched into a sun-synchronous near polar orbit on the 23 July 1972. It wasn’t renamed Landsat-1 until … Continue reading
The satellite Earth observation (EO) industry, arguably, began 37 years ago yesterday. Now, before everyone starts tweeting and emailing hear me out. Although by this date EO satellites were in orbit, data successfully collected and imagery produced, the concept of … Continue reading
