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Remembering Virginia Norwood, the ‘Mother’ of NASA’s Landsat Program
- jofer 4y agoPhenomenal quote from the article above: > She reportedly had no issue with the “the mother of Landsat” moniker her peers gave her. “Yes, I like it, and it’s apt,” she said. “I created it, I birthed it, and I fought for it.” As someone in the remote sensing industry, we really do owe her a great debt. The legacy and ongoing contributions to both science and the overall economy from the Landsat program are difficult to understate. The fact that the USGS has made the Landsat program fully open only accelerates that.
- myself248 4y agoBack in the glory days of NASA WorldWind (sort of like Google Earth but with live satellite data overlays), the LandSat layers were my favorite. They had spectral bands tuned for specific purposes like forest fires, or crop health, and you could just click those into place, adjust the transparency, and see the world from a new perspective, with a latency of just a few hours.
- uneekname 4y agoIt's hard to overstate the continued benefits of the Landsat program. Virginia Norwood's work helped set the stage for new industries. NASA's write-up about her from 2020 includes more details about the Multispectral Scanner System she worked on.[0] [0] https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/article/virginia-t-norwood-the-mother-of-landsat/ https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/article/virginia-t-norwood-the...