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Goddard Space Flight Center Engineering Colloquium
Date: Monday, March 12, 2001
For almost three decades, the Landsat series of satellites has allowed the building of a vast archive of images taken from space, enabling scientists, environmental organizations, farmers, and anyone else who is interested to track seasonal changes on regional, continental, and global scales. Landsat imagery has provided critically important information for monitoring agricultural productivity, water resources, urban growth, deforestation, and natural change due to fires and insect infestations.
It is the responsibility of NASA's Earth Science Office to ensure the continuity of Landsat data in the future at an affordable price. This is the major role of the Earth Observing-1 mission. Launched on November 21, 2000 EO-1 will flight validate new technology that will result in future lower cost Landsat missions.
Flying in formation with Landsat-7, EO-1 will take images up to 8 times a day of the same ground areas. A validation team made up of a cross section of Landsat users will make side-by-side comparisons of the imagery to demonstrate that EO-1 can produce Landsat quality images.
EO-1 has begun the validation process. Initial results are very encouraging. During its development we had several challenges including the late addition of the Hyperion hyper spectral instrument. The presentation will give an overview of EO-1's important technology validations and the overall design and execution of the mission, and it will cover some of the development challenges.
Dale Schulz has been with the Goddard Space Flight Center for over thirty-five years. Early in his career he worked various spacecraft and instrument integration engineering positions. In 1991 he lead a restructuring team to study the possibility of conducting the XTE mission on its own spacecraft bus as well as the possibility of developing that bus at GSFC. In 1992 he became the XTE Project manager and successfully launched it in late 1995. In 1996 he became the EO-1 Project Manager..
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