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Mission to Earth: LANDSAT Views the World - Volume Two: Color Imagery of the Earth's Surface

Mission to Earth: LANDSAT Views the World - Volume Two: Color Imagery of the Earth's Surface

Nicholas M. Short
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This book was conceived on the very day the first Landsat images were received, processed, and displayed to the more than 100 expectant scientists and technologists at the Goddard Space Flight Center. Almost immediately after the Landsat 1 image showing the Ouachita Mountains was mounted in a viewer, one of the book's authors—surprised and delighted by the variety and sharpness of the features it contained—announced to his nearby colleagues that "we'd better get started right now in picking the best to come for a picture book."
Nearly 4 years and more than 100 000 images later, the results of that commitment have been assembled into this compendium of outstanding Landsat scenes depicting the Earth's surface from a perspective never before presented in such breadth and detail. Prior to Landsat, synoptic photos that view large areas of the world had been obtained during the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions. Unmanned NASA meteorological satellites in the TIROS and Nimbus series also produced TV and scanner images that covered vast areas of the continents. The Soviets, too, had acquired similar pictures from many of their space efforts. But, for the first time, Landsat images make it possible to visualize essentially the entire global land surface at a scale and resolution that specify many natural and cultural features in man's familiar environments with sufficient clarity to be recognized. In addition to their technical value, Landsat images are almost unique in their esthetic qualities—showing in numerous examples a richness in color and form that rivals the finest of the French impressionist paintings.
That book reviews in more detail a wide range of examples and case histories that demonstrate the practical applications of Landsat to resources evaluation and decision making in many of the activities—including cartography, geologic mapping, mineral resource evaluation, water inventory, coastal and wetlands management, and land use assessment—that come under the auspices of the Department of the Interior.
The LANDSAT program and system is described. The entire global land surface of Earth is visualized in 400 color plates at a scale and resolution that specify natural land cultural features in man's familiar environments. A glossary is included.
Because of the large digital size, the original book has been divided into four volumes. Each volume contains all the introductory material and one hundred of the four hundred high resolution plates.
This volume contains 176 pages and over 100 full-color high resolution photographs, drawings, illustrations and charts.
This is a Print Replica that maintains the formatting and layout of the original edition and offers many of the advantages of standard Kindle books.
Language
English
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
aIc Books
Release
September 02, 2015

Mission to Earth: LANDSAT Views the World - Volume Two: Color Imagery of the Earth's Surface

Nicholas M. Short
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
This book was conceived on the very day the first Landsat images were received, processed, and displayed to the more than 100 expectant scientists and technologists at the Goddard Space Flight Center. Almost immediately after the Landsat 1 image showing the Ouachita Mountains was mounted in a viewer, one of the book's authors—surprised and delighted by the variety and sharpness of the features it contained—announced to his nearby colleagues that "we'd better get started right now in picking the best to come for a picture book."
Nearly 4 years and more than 100 000 images later, the results of that commitment have been assembled into this compendium of outstanding Landsat scenes depicting the Earth's surface from a perspective never before presented in such breadth and detail. Prior to Landsat, synoptic photos that view large areas of the world had been obtained during the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions. Unmanned NASA meteorological satellites in the TIROS and Nimbus series also produced TV and scanner images that covered vast areas of the continents. The Soviets, too, had acquired similar pictures from many of their space efforts. But, for the first time, Landsat images make it possible to visualize essentially the entire global land surface at a scale and resolution that specify many natural and cultural features in man's familiar environments with sufficient clarity to be recognized. In addition to their technical value, Landsat images are almost unique in their esthetic qualities—showing in numerous examples a richness in color and form that rivals the finest of the French impressionist paintings.
That book reviews in more detail a wide range of examples and case histories that demonstrate the practical applications of Landsat to resources evaluation and decision making in many of the activities—including cartography, geologic mapping, mineral resource evaluation, water inventory, coastal and wetlands management, and land use assessment—that come under the auspices of the Department of the Interior.
The LANDSAT program and system is described. The entire global land surface of Earth is visualized in 400 color plates at a scale and resolution that specify natural land cultural features in man's familiar environments. A glossary is included.
Because of the large digital size, the original book has been divided into four volumes. Each volume contains all the introductory material and one hundred of the four hundred high resolution plates.
This volume contains 176 pages and over 100 full-color high resolution photographs, drawings, illustrations and charts.
This is a Print Replica that maintains the formatting and layout of the original edition and offers many of the advantages of standard Kindle books.
Language
English
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
aIc Books
Release
September 02, 2015

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