The Office of Space and Terrestrial Applications-3 payload, scheduled for flight on STS Mission 17, consists of four earth-observation experiments. The Feature Identification and Location Experiment-1 will spectrally sense and numerically classify the earth's surface into water, vegetation, bare earth, and ice/snow/cloud-cover, by means of spectra ratio techniques. The Measurement of Atmospheric Pollution from Satellite experiment will measure CO distribution in the middle and upper troposphere. The Imaging Camera-B uses side-looking SAR to create two-dimensional images of the earth's surface. The Large Format Camera/Attitude Reference System will collect metric quality color, color-IR, and black-and-white photographs for topographic mapping.
OSTA-3 Shuttle payload
International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment ; 1983 ; Ann Arbor, MI
1984-01-01
Conference paper
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English
The first Shuttle scientific payload /OSTA-1/
NTRS | 1983
|The first Shuttle scientific payload /OSTA-1/
AIAA | 1983
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