Tag: satellite sensor

A color infrared composite (bands 321) of an ASTER acquisition on April 28, 2007. This subset is centered on an area of forested and clear-cut forest lands. A portion of Sam Rayburn Lake is also visible. These features are located in East Texas north of the city of Jasper. The scale of the image is 1:60,000.

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A NASA EOS (Earth Observing System) satellite called Terra (EOS AM-1) carries the ASTER instrument. Terra launched on Dec. 18, 1999, …

A color infrared composite (bands 432) of a Landsat 7 ETM+ acquisition on Nov. 13, 2002. This subset, from path 27 row 39, is centered on downtown Austin, Texas, and shown at a scale of 1:100,000.

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NASA developed and launched the Landsat satellites, and the USGS handles the flight operations, maintenance, and management of all ground data reception, processing, archiving, product generation, and distribution. The legacy of Landsat satellites began in 1972 with the launch of Landsat 1. Since …

A visible color composite (bands 1-Red, 4-Green, and 3-Blue) of a Terra MODIS acquisition on Nov. 17, 2006. This subset is centered on the city of Houston, Texas. Sediment-laden water is visible in Trinity Bay and Galveston Bay, southeast of Houston. In the northwest corner of the image subset, farmland along the Brazos River and urban lands in the cities of Bryan and College Station, Texas, are easily identified.

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The MODIS (Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) instruments are part of the …