GEO 542 Study Guide - Final Guide: Landsat 7, Video Camera Tube, Landsat Program
1 Dec 2014
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Synthetic aperture radar (sar); see through clouds, haze, smoke ; hq images. Flexibility in selections of polarization; can look to left and right; processing and delivering timeline goes to mda (macdonald, detwiller and assoc. 3 spectral bands (red, green and near infrared) Designed to inquire data on the earth"s surface; landsat 1. Transmitted in an digital format (50mb per image) 4 spectral bands (green, red and 2 in near infrared) 7 spectral bands (green, blue, red, near ir, thermal, ir and 2 in middle infrared) Same bands as tm plus a panchromatic band (b/w) 60km image swath for each hrv (120km total) 2 hrv sensors (2 different areas of the world simultaneously) Identical to hrv plus one short wave ir band (20m spatial res. ) 4 bands in red near ir mid ir and blue for oceanographic images. Irs 1a, irs 1b carry sensors which offer 72. 5m data similar to landsat.
