A team of investigators describes a new imaging spectrometer design that could enable improved pictures from NASA’s Landsat, for better understanding of phenomena, and environments as various as coral reefs, urbanization, tropical deforestation, and glaciers.

A retractable boom (4 m long) with 2 powered joints helps the articulated HGA (Excessive Achieve Antenna) which downlinks data by way of TDRS (Tracking and Data Relay System). The RF communications system uses S-, X-, L-, and Ku-bands. The S/C is three-axis stabilized, zero momentum with management to 0.01º utilizing reaction wheels.

Landsat pictures aren’t terribly big or difficult to process by today’s computing requirements. In a GeoTIFF image format, the file for a single 30m band is approximately 53MB. So long as you might be dealing with a study space that is contained within one or a couple of Landsat scenes, you should not need any special computer hardware to have the ability to use Landsat imagery.

The products are additionally accessible within the GeoTIFF format. The GeoTIFF format information are only out there via the What You See Is What You Get WELD Web distribution interface. This interface helps interactive ordering of any arbitrary rectangular space that has a data quantity of … Read the rest