Landsat

American  

[land-sat] / ˈlændˌsæt /

noun

1. a U.S. scientific satellite that studies and photographs the earth's surface by using remote-sensing techniques.

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Landsat Scientific  

/ lănd′săt′ /

1. Any of various satellites used to gather data for images of the Earth's land surface and coastal regions. These satellites are equipped with sensors that respond to Earth-reflected sunlight and infrared radiation. The first Landsat satellite was launched in 1972. Currently, the seventh satellite (Landsat 7) is orbiting Earth.

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Etymology

Origin of Landsat

First recorded in 1975–80; land or land(-sensing) + sat(ellite)

Example Sentences

Aschbacher noted that the EU'S navigation satellite system Galileo and Earth observation programme Copernicus started out 10 to 15 years behind US competitors GPS and Landsat.

From Barron's

"We also have this long land cover time series from Landsat, and we can look at how fires are changing the land plant cover and then tie it to changes in the solar-induced fluorescence signal. We find that wildfires are changing the land cover, which, in turn, can enhance the seasonality of carbon fluxes at large spatial scales."

From Science Daily

Piper's three-decade-long study of loon behavioral ecology in northern Wisconsin intersects with Gline and Rose's use of Landsat imagery to calculate freshwater lake clarity.

From Science Daily

The authors used images of Turkmenistan taken by NASA's Landsat-5 satellite, one of the first Earth-observing satellites.

From Science Daily

By using the proxy of the ice bumps in the Landsat images, the record of thinning observations can be pushed back a further two decades.

From BBC