Satélites Landsat

Greetings participant of the Geodesia Satellite Lab assignment, we welcome you most cordially. I will be talking about the Landsat satellites. The Landsat satellites are a series of satellites built and put into orbit by the United States for observation in high resolution of the Earth's surface.

the Lanzards orbit around Earth in circular orbit, at a height of 705 kilometers, with an inclination of 98.2 degrees with respect to the equator,

and a period of 99 minutes. The orbit of the satellites is designed in such a way that every time they cross the equator from north to south they do it between 10 and 10:15 local time. The Landsats are equipped with specific instruments for multispectral telemetry. The first Landsat satellite

Originally called ERTS-1, it was launched on July 23, 1972. The last of the series is Landsat 8, launched on February 11, 2013. Before 1972, the idea of ​​using satellite data for Earth surveillance, cartography or exploration was a visionary concept, a fact that gave rise to the Landsat program.

which is made up of a series of Earth observation missions managed jointly by NASA and the US Geological Service.

The Landsat program has revolutionized the way we see and study our planet. This series of data, which began in 1972, is the longest in history, and continues to record changes on the Earth's surface from space. Landsat has been the only satellite system designed and operated to repeatedly observe the Earth's surface with a moderate resolution.

In general, each pixel in its image has a size with which a baseball field could be covered. Currently, the program is in its eighth version called "Landsat-Atta Continuity Mission", it is the eighth observation satellite of the Landsat series, and will continue the legacy of the previous satellites' archive, thus becoming the future of Earth observation satellites, developed by the manager of Agrimensura Joeri Rodríguez.