Launched into space last year, the Landsat 8 satellite is capturing incredible images of Earth. But its meaning goes much deeper than just bringing beautiful images, because with its monitoring, it has a significant impact on the understanding of nature and its phenomena, and at the same time it significantly influences the positive development of a wide variety of disciplines.
NASA's mission Landsat, under operational management USGS, is in its own 42nd consecutive year of recording the state of the earth's surface, where she has already collected more than 160,000 stunning images. These are for users available for free through the site GloVis, EarthExplorer or LandsatLook Viewer. Such, until now incomparable, long-term collection of valuable data brings significant changes in the field of knowledge of the Earth.
Right now already the eighth satellite, initially named Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM), he continues the important role of understanding natural phenomena and resource management, necessary for the existence of humanity. With the increase in the world's population, which currently stands at seven billion, the impact of human society on the planet will be ever greater, which is why monitoring via the Landsat satellite is all the more essential.
Extensive knowledge gained ever since 1972, thus continuously contributing to the research of climate, ecosystems, geological changes and carbon and water cycles, thereby has a positive effect to improving overall human health, biodiversity, energy and water management, urban planning, natural disaster recovery and agricultural control.
On the first anniversary Landsat 8 thus offers something extraordinary moments view of the US surface from orbit.
