Earth observation satellite (Landsat 1)
Satélite de observación de la Tierra (Landsat 1)
- Date
- 1972 · confidence high
- Place
- Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, United States; NASA Goddard, Greenbelt, Maryland
- Credited to
- NASA and the US Geological Survey (William Pecora, Stewart Udall)
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
The first civilian satellite dedicated to systematically photographing the Earth's surface across several spectral bands. It began the longest continuous record of the planet, today open to all.
What it led to
- The monitoring of deforestation, glaciers and crops
- Google Earth and everyday satellite maps
- Precision agriculture and disaster response
Built on
- Photogrammetry (Laussedat)1849-1858
- Corona reconnaissance satellite and orbital capsule recoveryagosto de 1960
- Weather satellite (TIROS-1)1960
- TIROS weather satellite
- Corona spy satellites
- multispectral sensor
Made possible
- Uhuru: the first X-ray astronomy satellite12 de diciembre de 1970
- Precision agriculture (GPS yield monitors and autosteer)1994-2000
- Google Earth
- evidence of climate change