Uses Of Satellite Images

Satellite imagery was made available to the public when nasa launched their first landsat mission in 1972.

Uses of satellite images.

It temporarily silenced 80 percent of the pagers in the united states national public radio was not able to distribute its broadcasts to affiliates and broadcasted only via its website and on the cbs evening news the image of dan rather froze while the audio continued. The uses of satellite imagery. Satellites provide the meteorologists with the ability to see the weather on a global scale they allow them to follow the effects of phenomena like the volcanic eruptions and the burning gas and the oil fields to the development of large systems like the hurricanes. Visible satellite pictures can only be viewed during the day since clouds reflect the light from the sun.

Forty four years and 100 satellites later humans have found countless ways to use this technology for commercial humanitarian academic and personal reasons. Satellite images have many applications in meteorology oceanography fishing agriculture biodiversity conservation forestry landscape geology cartography regional planning education intelligence and warfare. Satellites are used in the field of oceanography now the marine scientists and marine biologists can detect everything that. There are three main types of satellite images available.

In 1998 a satellite failure demonstrated this dependence. The earliest satellites played key roles in the cold war allowing the soviet union and the united states.