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November 2014
PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
What expected and unexpected challenges did the Project
run into?
Tracking down, retrieving and embracing the vast volume
of information, getting information transferred to us.
Missing the NOAA documents archive by one week--all
the NOAA documents were destroyed. Writing a book by
committee in our spare time; trying to integrate a number
of different voices into a book that flows, makes sense, and
isn’t excessively redundant or technical. Working with the
NASAHistory Office. None of us are historians! The History
Office didn’t think we could get this done, but they have
been very patient with us.
How did Landsat get an island named after itself?
In 1976, Canada did a coastal survey using Landsat data.
During the study an uncharted island was discovered in the
data, 20 km off NE Labrador. Once the island was verified in
the field it was named after its “discoverer” hence “Landsat
Island.” This speaks to what a major cartographic tool
Landsat data are. At the time, a Landsat 1 press release
said less than half of the planet was accurately mapped.
In Miles Harvey’s book
The Island of Lost Maps: A True
Story of Cartographic Crime
, he contends, “satellite technol-
ogies have led to one of the most productive periods in the
history of cartography, comparable only to the golden age
of mapmaking in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.”
When is the Landsat Legacy volume expected to be
published?
The Legacy team is currently working toward a completed
draft of the book text by early 2015. During 2015 the
text will be undergoing external review and revision, for
accuracy and clarity. The team plans to publish a book,
a documentary video, a website, and various images on a
rolling release schedule beginning in early 2016.
We would like to thank:
Steve Garber, Darrel Williams, Gene Major, All of the
Landsat Veterans who’ve helped us capture the project’s
details and zeitgeist, the NASA Goddard Library, the NASA
History Office, USGS EROS, and ASPRS.
“A week before we told NOAA about
the Landsat Legacy project, they sent
their commercialization-era Landsat
documentation to be destroyed; they said ‘I
wish you would have told us last week!’—
a travesty of timing.”
“People go into science because they are
curious and want to find out how the natural
world works. “
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