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In studying the pictures sent from weather satellites, scientists realized that they might able to take photographs from space to learn a lot more than just where the clouds are. The instruments and systems used in satellites such as Nimbus, Meteor, and NOAA allowed to also experiment new applications of space vehicles: remote sensing and monitoring of Earth resources. Remote sensing was given a start by the manned Vostok, Mercury, and especially Gemini programs, in the mid-1960s. Initially, data coming from space were common black-and-white or panchromatic photographs taken by astronauts, particularly useful for the study of atmospheric phenomena and geological structures.
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Dicati, R. (2017). Earth Remote Sensing. In: Stamping the Earth from Space. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20756-8_8
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