Sensor Summary Fact Sheet for Landsat 4 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 4
The Landsat 4 satellite, which has two instruments on board namely the MSS and TM sensors, was launched on 16 July 1982 by the USGS. The satellite was decommisioned on 15 June 2001. | |
http://landsat.usgs.gov/about_landsat4.php | |
July 17, 1982 | |
Decommissioned 15 June 2001 | |
705 km | |
km | |
16 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 4
1984 | 1987 |
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23 | 44 |