Landsat Program

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Honoring Alex Goetz, a Landsat Legend 

In the more than five decades of the Landsat program, there have been many visionaries who have changed the course of remote sensing history. One such figure is Alexander Goetz, a physicist and planetary scientist who pioneered imaging spectrometry from space. Goetz was part of the Landsat Program from the very beginning, working as a principal investigator for Landsats 1…