Multispectral Scanner
Illustration — MSS diagram The Multispectral Scanner (MSS) is one of the Earth's observing sensors introduced in the Landsat program. A Multispectral Scanner was placed aboard each of the first five Landsat satellites. The scanner was designed at Hughes Aerospace by Virginia Norwood.
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Illustration — MSS diagram The Multispectral Scanner (MSS) is one of the Earth's observing sensors introduced in the Landsat program. A Multispectral Scanner was placed aboard each of the first five Landsat satellites. The scanner was designed at Hughes Aerospace by Virginia Norwood.
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Her design called for a six band scanner, but the first one launched had only four bands. For her work on the design Norwood is called "The Mother of Landsat."
• Sensor type — Spatial resolution — Spectral range — Number of bands — Temporal resolution — Image size — Swath • opto-mechanical — 68 m X 83 m (or 57 m) — 0.5 - 1.1 μm — 4, 5 (Landsat 3 only) — 18 days (L1-L3), 16 days (L4 & L5) — 185 km X 185 km — 185 km
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1991
Geological assessment of SIR-B imaging radar and multispectral scanner imagery in the Amadeus Basin, Central Australia digitised by DataCite (UNSW Sydney).
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Geological assessment of SIR-B imaging radar and multispectral scanner imagery in the Amadeus Basin, Central Australia (1991) — DataCite (UNSW Sydney).
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A multispectral scanner survey of the United States Department of Energy's Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, 1991.
A New Model For The Geometric Correction Of Multispectral Scanner Data, SPIE Proceedings, 1988
Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) and Multispectral Scanner (MSS) Studies Examine Coastal Environments Influenced by Mining, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2014
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- 1.The Landsat Program - Technical Details.
- 2.Pennisi, Elizabeth. Meet the Landsat pioneer who fought to revolutionize Earth observation. Science. 373. 6561. 1292. 10 September 2021. 10.1126/science.acx9080.
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