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Conservation gets boost from new Landsat satellite
2013-04-03 15:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Efforts to monitor the world's forests and other ecosystems got a big boost in February with the launch of Landsat 8, NASA's newest earth observation satellite, which augments the crippled Landsat 7 currently orbiting Earth (technically Landsat 8 is still named the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) and will remain so until May when the USGS turns control of the satellite over to NASA). Last week Landsat 8/LDCM sent back its first image, showing the meeting of the Great Plains with the Front...
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