Sensor Summary Fact Sheet for Landsat 3 MSS

Collection: Landsat

Description

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.

Owner

USGS

Satellite: Landsat 3

Description	The Landsat 1 (1972 to 1978), Landsat 2 (1975-1982) and Landsat 3 (1978-1983) satellites have the same MSS instrument on board
Reference	http://landsat.usgs.gov/about_landsat3.php
Launch Date	March 5, 1978
Status	Decommissioned 7 September 1983
Altitude	917 km
Orbit	km
Revisit Time	18 days

Sensor: MSS

Description	Multi-Spectral Scanner
Sensor Type	Optical
Reference System	Worldwide Reference System 1 (WRS1)
Scanner Type	Whisk Broom or Cross-track Optical Scanner
Swath	185 km
Bands	5
Band Type	Multi-spectral; Thermal
Spectral Range	500 - 12 600 nm
Spatial Resolution	57 m x 79 m resampled to 60 m
Quantization	8
Image Size	180 km x 170 km km
Keywords	Landsat 1; Landsat 2; Landsat 3; Landsat 4; 5; MSS; multi-spectral; 60m

Yearly catalogue product overview for Landsat 3

1982
20