Your name in Landsat

NASA has plenty of fun little websites that make use of its functioning technologies, primarily intended for outreach. One of these is Your name in Landsat which takes pictures from Landsat that resemble latin alphabets and uses them to make up the letters in your name, or whatever word you choose. Here, for example, is V.H. Belvadi in Landsat, without the full stops and spaces: Landsat is a programme run by NASA and the US Geological Survey which involves eight satellites (as of now) monitoring the Earth, also incorporating imagery from ESA’s Sentinel Hub (via Copernicus). The first of these was launched in July 1973. Landsat continues to be useful in many ways including for post-wildfire restoration, forest cover mapping, mapping for flood insurance premiums, ecosystems monitoring and, best of all, gathering continuous data for future research. Don’t want my frequent notes in your RSS reader? Subscribe to the essays-only feed.