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Media:1974_USGS_Remote_Sensing_Survey.pdf 1974 US Geological Survey of Remote Sensing Platforms Category:Publications

... lectures and coordinate the trip itinerary. He was supported by nine other “helpers,” three USGS camp hands, two USGS geologists, two MSC geologists, and two MSC photographers. Any activity that astronauts participated ... observations made by the astronauts and relayed back to the USGS Mission Control Center.''' Image:Apollo Training.020.jpg‎ '''USGS simulation by USGS geologists at the "Moonscape" testing prototype geology equipment, 1968. By ...

... OBSERVATION SATELLITE'' --WASHINGTON -- NASA and the Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have released the first images from the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite, which was ... Operational Land Imager (OLI) and Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) instruments observed the scene simultaneously. The USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science Center in Sioux Falls, S.D., processed the data. We ...

... as the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM). Since then, NASA mission engineers and scientists, with USGS collaboration, have been putting the satellite through its paces -- steering it into its orbit, calibrating the detectors, and collecting test images. Now fully mission-certified, the satellite is under USGS operational control. Landsat is a centerpiece of NASA's Earth Science program, said NASA Administrator ...

... , forest monitoring, human and environmental health, urban planning, disaster recovery and agriculture. NASA and the USGS jointly manage the Landsat Program. For decades, Landsat has played an important part in NASA ... program provides the nation with crucial, impartial data about its natural resources, said Matthew Larsen, USGS associate director for climate and land use change in Reston, Va. "Forest managers, for instance ...

... training Apollo 15.” I thought, “Whoa, this sounds kind of neat.” Gordy Swann was the USGS United States Geological Survey lead for Apollo 15. I was imposed upon their team. They ... to drive on a highway. They really are off-road devices. Those worked well. The USGS did put together a very good simulation of a lunar rover, which we used. The ... be very useful. So they practiced using that when we were in New Mexico. The USGS brought the rover from Flagstaff up there, which was a reasonable distance. Still a significant ...

... data to address these and other climate risks. “Federal agencies, such as NASA and the USGS, traditionally focus on developing world-class science data to support scientific research, but the rapid ... because scientific objectivity is what the American people expect from us,” said Virginia Burkett, acting USGS associate director for Climate Change and Land Use. “That systematic approach is fundamental to our ...

... species: NASA had provided data, predictive models, and systems engineering to the USGS, information that had helped the USGS build predictive maps of invasive species in Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. With NASA's assistance, USGS had converted data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer aboard NASA's Terra satellite, as ...

... and water management, urban planning, disaster recovery and crop monitoring. During the briefing, NASA and USGS will announce the 10 most significant images from the Landsat record, the U.S. regions ... , Washington -- Jeff Masek, NASA Landsat project scientist, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. -- Tom Loveland, USGS senior scientist, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, Sioux Falls, S.D. -- Jim Irons ...

... data been transformed in recent years by advancements in computing power and the decision by USGS to allow free online access to the information. This revolution has allowed scientists to detect ... the TIRS instrument. Orbital Sciences Corporation built, integrated, and tested the spacecraft in Gilbert, Ariz. USGS provided the LDCM ground system. The launch was managed by NASA's Launch Services Program ...

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