November 18, 2008General Session II1:30 pm to 3:00 pm

Room: Grand Ballroom II

Insights and Visions of Land Imaging as Seen Through the Eyes of Past Pecora Award Recipients

Vincent V. SalomonsonResearch ProfessorUniversity of Utah

andSenior Scientist (Emeritus)

NASA/Goddard

FIRST IMAGE FROM ERTS-1

False color composite of the Lake Texoma area of Oklahoma and Texas.Lake Texoma behind the Dennison Dam on the Red River is the large lake in the lower right hand corner of the image. The Red River forms the boundary between Oklahoma to the north and Texas to the south. (Ref: Manual of Remote Sensing, First Edition, 1975, pp. 26.

Early Thematic Mapper Image over Detroit/Windor areaon the boundary between U. S. and Canada

July 20, 1982

Natural color composite formed from TM bands 1 (blue), 2 (green) and3 (red) in blue, green, red respectively. 30 meter spatial resolutionReference: Manual of Remote Sensing, 1883

Landsat-4 launch July 16, 1982

Alex Geotz/JPL, Ralph Bernstein/IBM, Nick Short/GSFC, Vince Salomonson/GSFC, Darrel Williams/GSFC

LIDQA 1-1984 LIDQA 2-1985 TMRES-1989

LANDSAT 4 AND 5 SCIENCE BENEFITED FROM TWO PROGRAMS:•LANDSAT IMAGE DATA QUALITY ANALYSIS (LIDQA)

•THEMATIC MAPPER RESEARCH IN THE EARTH SCIENCES