Sensor Summary Fact Sheet for Landsat 5 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 5
The Landsat 5 satellite, which has two instruments on board namely the MSS and TM sensors, was launched on 1 March 1984 by the USGS. The MSS instrument was switched off in August 1995. On 18 November 2011, TM acquisitions were suspended after technical difficulties, but a legacy of 28 years of global imagery is archived. | |
http://landsat.usgs.gov/about_landsat5.php | |
March 1, 1984 | |
Decommissioned 5 June 2013 | |
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 5
1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1993 |
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22 | 37 | 5015 | 4525 | 4220 | 1561 | 1596 |