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 |
|---|---|
| 23 | 44 |