November 18, 2008 General Session II 1:30 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. Salomonson Research Professor University of Utah and Senior 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 area on the boundary between U. S. and Canada July 20, 1982 Natural color composite formed from TM bands 1 (blue), 2 (green) and 3 (red) in blue, green, red respectively. 30 meter spatial resolution Reference: 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 LIDQA TMRES-1989 LANDSAT 4 AND 5 SCIENCE BENEFITED FROM TWO PROGRAMS: LANDSAT IMAGE DATA QUALITY ANALYSIS (LIDQA) THEMATIC MAPPER RESEARCH IN THE EARTH SCIENCES