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contracted EarthSat to produce Landsat GeoCover - a positionally accurate orthorectified Landsat Thematic Mapper and Multispectral Scanner imagery covering the majority of the Earth's land mass. The contract was part of the NASA Scientific Data Purchase which was administrated through NASA's
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derived circa year 2000, orthorectified, mosaicked and color balanced digital image dataset covering the entire land area of the Earth except for the high latitude polar regions.
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of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be
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for petroleum, mineral and groundwater exploration. It later expanded into satellite and aerial
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GeoCover was later enhanced to EarthSat NaturalVue, a natural color
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which was the former parent MDA company out of Canada.
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notability guidelines for companies and organizations
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notability guidelines for companies and organizations
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merged
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"EarthSat"
news
newspapers
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scholar
JSTOR
Learn how and when to remove this message
Trade name
Washington, D.C.
Radiant Solutions
Rockville, Maryland
Parent
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.
Earth observation satellites
Washington, D.C.
Bethesda, Maryland
Rockville, Maryland
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.
British Columbia
remote sensing
image processing
geographic information systems
Landsat program
RADARSAT-1

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