Eyes on Earth Episode 62 – Landsat 9 Launch Part 3

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Summary: For our third and final episode of Eyes on Earth from the September launch of Landsat 9, we hear from Virginia Norwood. She blazed a trail for women in remote sensing in the 1960s and 70s while working for Hughes Aircraft, a contractor for NASA. Norwood is known as the “Mother of Landsat” for her design of the Multispectral Scanner, or MSS, the sensor used to image the Earth’s surface by early Landsat satellites. Norwood met her fans during a Q&A a few hours after the launch sponsored by the USGS and Ladies of Landsat. The episode also features an appearance from Kass Green, who founded a company in the 1980s that used Landsat data to map landscape change.

Guests: Virginia Norwood, physicist, Kass Green, Kass Green and Associates

Hosts: John Hult, Kate Fickas

Producer: John Hult

Release date: November 30, 2021

More on Landsat 9:

• Landsat 9 Galleries: Launch Week
• Eyes on Earth Episode 60 – Landsat 9 Launch Part 1
• Eyes on Earth Episode 61 – Landsat Launch Part 2
• USGS, EROS Process ‘First Light’ Images from Landsat 9