Presented by:Jenelyn P. Cadion

BS Biology 3

Landsat

Leyte Normal UniversityTacloban City

Landsat 7

Landsat 7•Spacecraft: Landsat 7•Carrier rocket: Delta II 7920•Launch date: April 15, 1999•Launch time: 18:32:00 UTC •Launch site: Space Launch Complex 2W

Vandenberg Air Force Base •Mission duration: elapsed; 11 years,

9 months, and 20 days

• To refresh the global archive of satellite photos, providing up-to-date and cloud-free images

•To provide timely, high quality visible and infrared images of all landmass and near coastal areas on the Earth, continually refreshing an existing Landsat database

Mission’s Objectives

•The Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) aims to replicate the capabilities of the highly successful Thematic Mapper instruments on Landsats 4 and 5.

•Provide critically important information for monitoring agricultural productivity, water resources, urban growth, deforestation, and natural change

•Darrel Williams Landsat 7 Project Scientist

•James Irons Deputy Landsat 7 Project Scientist

Landsat 7 Science Team

•Jeffrey Masek Landsat 7 Deputy Team Leader

Dr. Robert Bindschadler Instrumental in the creation of the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA)

Dr. Samuel N. Goward Science Team Leader for the Landsat 7 satellite mission

Robert Cahalan Clear Sky and Cloud: Characterization and Correction for Landsat

• Susan MoranLANDSAT TM and ETM+

Data for Resource Monitoring and Management

•Luke Flynn has Analysis of Volcanic Eruptions

and Fires Using Landsat 7

•Alexander GoetzLand and Land-Use Change in

the Climate Sensitive High Plains: An Automated Approach with Landsat

•John R. Schott Absolute Calibration, Atmospheric Correction and Application of LANDSAT ETM= Thermal Infrared Data

•David L. Skole Acquisition and Analysis of Large Quantities of Landsat 7 Data for Measuring Tropical Land Cover Change

•Kurtis J. Thome Absolute Radiometric Calibration and Atmospheric Correction of Landsat-7 Thematic Mapper

•James E. VogelmanCharacterization of Landsat 7 Geometry

and Radiometry for Land Cover Analysis

•Curtis E. Woodcock Monitoring Changes in Temperate Coniferous

•John PriceSurface Classification for MODIS,

Radiometric Calibration and Project Support

Program ManagementPhillip A. Sabelhaus

Landsat 7 Project Manager

Ray ByrnesUSGS Land Satellite Program Liaison

R. J. ThompsonUSGS Landsat Program Manager

Landsat Program is a series of Earth-observing satellite missions jointly managed by;

National Aeronautics ` and Space Administration

U.S. Geological Survey

Agency Involved