Sensor Summary Fact Sheet for Landsat 3 MSS
Collection: Landsat
The Landsat program, originally known as the Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS), was proposed in 1965 by the US Geological Survey(USGS) as a civilian satellite program. NASA started building the first satellite in 1970 and have launched 6 spacecraft successfully (Landsat 6 was lost at launch). In December 2009 all Landsat archive products were made available free to the public on the USGS website. | |
USGS |
Satellite: Landsat 3
The Landsat 1 (1972 to 1978), Landsat 2 (1975-1982) and Landsat 3 (1978-1983) satellites have the same MSS instrument on board | |
http://landsat.usgs.gov/about_landsat3.php | |
March 5, 1978 | |
Decommissioned 7 September 1983 | |
917 km | |
km | |
18 days |
Sensor: MSS
Multi-Spectral Scanner | |
Optical | |
Worldwide Reference System 1 (WRS1) | |
Whisk Broom or Cross-track Optical Scanner | |
185 km | |
5 | |
Multi-spectral; Thermal | |
500 - 12 600 nm | |
57 m x 79 m resampled to 60 m | |
8 | |
180 km x 170 km km | |
Landsat 1; Landsat 2; Landsat 3; Landsat 4; 5; MSS; multi-spectral; 60m |
Yearly catalogue product overview for Landsat 3
1982 |
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20 |