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Landsat

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Land·sat  (lndst)
n.
Any of various satellites operated by U.S. government organizations, used to gather data for constructing images of the Earth's surface.


Landsat  (lndst)
Any of various satellites used to gather data for images of the Earth's land surface and coastal regions. These satellites are equipped with sensors that respond to Earth-reflected sunlight and infrared radiation. The first Landsat satellite was launched in 1972. Currently, the seventh satellite (Landsat 7) is orbiting Earth.


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AoMETRIC uses images from the two Landsat satellites, which orbit Earth every 16 days, meaning an image of a given field is available every eight days unless cloud cover interferes.
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Landsat 5 TM (Thematic Mapper) sensor has many advantages in ecological applications (Cohen & Goward, 2004) because of its suitable spatial resolution (grain size associated with the grain of land management), spectral resolution (all major portions of the solar electromagnetic spectrum are represented), and temporal resolution (systematically collected remote sensing data over more than 30 years).
 
 
 
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