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1. From balloon, launched by students in Massachusetts, September 2, 2009
2. Telstar – 50th anniversaryworld’s first image transatlantic TV transmission satellite
3. PLATFORMS & SENSORS
6. 1. Satellite orbits
7. Satellite orbits
9. Sun-synchronous
10. 2. Scanner types
11. 3. Sensor groups
12. 4. Low resolution
13. NOAA AVHRR (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer) 1.1km Red / NIR / TIR1978-present (16 satellites to 2000)- global vegetation monitoring: data are freely downloadabletwo run concurrently, one passing over in a.m., one in p.m. 2500 x 2500 pixels, 10 bit data
14. 5. MEDIUM RESOLUTION (100m-500m)
15. 6. HIGH RESOLUTION 5-80m
16. HIGH RESOLUTION
17. Landsat TM bands
18. SPOT (France) High Resolution Visible (HRV) bands
19. SPOT (France) Systeme Probatoire d'Observation de la Terre
21. IRS (Indian Remote Sensing)
22. ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer)
24. Advanced Land Imager (ALI)“Landsat like”onboard EO-1 satellite37km swath10 bands
25. 7. Very high resolution 0.5- 5m (Corporate)
27. Early spy satellites: ~1 metre
28. Other wavelengths: Thermal Microwave RADAR (Canada)and LiDAR remote sensing will be dealt with in later lectures