Part one of term paper
The idea of a satellite that could produce images of a civilian Earth was first thought of in the Department of Interior in the mid-1960’s. On July 23, 1972, NASA launched the first Landsat Satellite. It was designed to take provide images of the earth’s land masses. It used a Nimbus platform that was modified to carry sensor systems a ...

Part two of term paper
... In January 1983, the operations of the Landsat Satellite system were transferred to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The EROS Data Center (EDC) has managed the Landsat data archive for more then two decades. It provides an impressive collection of information about the Earth’s land surface. The SPOT satellites carry two High-Resolution Visible (HRV) sensors capturing visible and near-infrared radiance data with multispectral and panchromatic scanning capabiliti ...