Meaning Landsat
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Series of satellites launched by NASA for the purpose of remotely monitoring resources on the Earth. The first Landsat satellite was launched by the United States in 1972. Landsat uses two types of se [..]
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American satellite that circles the Earth around 14 times a day.
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A series of U.S. satellites designed for remote sensing and mapping of land areas. These satellites are launched into sun-synchronous orbits that return to image the same swath, two degrees wide, ever [..]
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a remote-sensing satellite program run by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. The first satellite was launched in 1972 and lasted until 1978. In total, six LandSat vehicles have been put into orbit a [..]
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Remote sensing images and other digital data about the land surface of the earth and surrounding coastal regions, gathered by earth-orbiting U.S. satellites maintained by the NASA Goddard Space Flight [..]
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is a system of satellites which scan the earth at a variety of wavelengths. The satellites return information that can be used to inventory and analyze a variety of natural and human resources. Layer
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[remote sensing] Landsat is NASA/USGS mission spanning more than three decades and eight satellites with space-borne remote sensing capabilities of scanning land resources.
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A particular system of US satellites that scan the earth at a variety of wavelengths. The satellites return information that can be used to inventory and analyze a variety of natural and human resourc [..]
Source: opengeospatial.org

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Land Remote-Sensing Satellite, operated by the U.S. Earth Observation Satellite Company (EOSAT). Commercialized under the Land Remote-Sensing Commercialization Act of 1984, Landsat is a series of sate [..]
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NASA earth orbiting satellites that gather imagery for multi-use interpretations.
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Earth resources satellites operated by NOAA, United States. LANDSAT 5 was launched 01MAR94. and operates in a near polar sun synchronous orbit at an altitude of 705km. Repeat cycle is 16 days.
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