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Satellite Pictures Show Earth's Resources
November 1972 Popular Electronics

November 1972 Popular Electronics

November 1972 Popular Electronics Cover - RF CafeTable of Contents

Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles from Popular Electronics, published October 1954 - April 1985. All copyrights are hereby acknowledged.

Ever since the advent of Google Earth in 2001 (hard to believe, non?), high resolution photos from orbiting satellites has become routine, expected technology rather than awe-inspiring technology. In 1970 when this article appeared, however, satellite imagery was still in its infancy. The TIROS 1 weather satellite, with a mere 78-day lifespan, had been launched just a decade earlier. Nations' militaries had the biggest and best platforms, and pictures like those now routinely seen on Google Earth were highly classified. If you recall, governments had conniption fits over Google's photos taken of secret installations. Civilians eventually got space-based images of Earthly weather systems on the evening news forecast segment, and some commercial users could purchase high resolution photos from specially licensed private companies. Nowadays, satellites carry not only optical sensors, but sensors covering a broad span in the electromagnetic spectrum, gravity sensors, particle detectors and other types of sensors.

Satellite Pictures Show Earth's Resources

Satellite Pictures Show Earth's Resources, November 1972 Popular Electronics - RF CafeOne of the important sources of information obtained from the Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS), launched last July by NASA, is the multitude of photo-graphs of the earth that are transmitted back daily. There are more than 300 prime subscribers for the data and they represent 35 countries. The data is available through negative and positive prints processed with Eastman Kodak Company equipment.

The ERTS photographic system has the capability of churning out as many as 300,000 photos weekly. Since it photographs only a section of the earth each day, it takes the satellite 18 days to cover the entire world. There are seven sensors on the satellite-each relaying separate data back to NASA ground stations located at Goddard Air Force Base; Fairbanks, Alaska; and Goldstone, California. Data from the satellite are fed to computers at Goddard and then to a photo laboratory; and a complete set of 61 prints is sent each day to Sioux Falls, S.D., where scientists, geologists, etc., can view areas of interest.

 

 

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