The Earth Observing-1 Mission (EO-1) satellite is part of the New Millennium Program of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the US Geological Survey (USGS), which began with the launch of this satellite on 21st November 2000.ĮO-1 has two sensors: the Advanced Land Image (ALI) has nine multispectral bands with a 30 m spatial resolution and a panchromatic band with a 10-m resolution, and the hyperspectral sensor (Hyperion) has 220 bands between 430 and 2,400 nm (Mandl et al. The images recorded by the Hyperion Sensor, aboard the satellite, during the past years, will provide valuable information about the Earth’s surface for many years to come.
The journey of NASA’s EO-1 satellite is coming to an end.
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