Landsat 8, loaded with several technological advancements for better data-gathering, blasted off Monday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California using an Atlas V rocket. The latest satellite in the 41-year-old Landsat program has enhanced capabilities to record the changes happening on the planet. Landsat 8 “very greatly boosts … the single most important record of changes in Earth’s ecosystems,” said Gregory Asner of the Carnegie Institution for Science’s Department of Global Ecology.
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Landsat 8 Pushes the Earth-Monitoring Envelope
Posted by: Richard Adhikari February 12, 2013 10:10 AMLandsat 8, loaded with several technological advancements for better data-gathering, blasted off Monday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California using an Atlas V rocket. The latest satellite in the 41-year-old Landsat program has enhanced capabilities to record the changes happening on the planet. Landsat 8 “very greatly boosts … the single most important record of changes in Earth’s ecosystems,” said Gregory Asner of the Carnegie Institution for Science’s Department of Global Ecology.