Who is the professor behind the Landsat program?

[dlgoff]

TL;DR Summary

University of Kansas connection to the Landsat missions

I've been thinking back to my college days. When I lived near campus, one of my roommate's father/professor worked on the Landsat program. I've been doing some searching but haven't been able to find anything about him, but here's a link to the some of the Landsat missions: https://www.usgs.gov/landsat-missions/science/education

 

[berkeman]

Wow, talk about a long-lived program! It looks like Landsat-1 was launched in 1972, and Landsat-9 was just launched last September:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsat_9

 

[dlgoff]

Wow, talk about a long-lived program! It looks like Landsat-1 was launched in 1972, and Landsat-9 was just launched last September:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsat_9

Yea, I thought it was a really cool program. I just wish I could find something about the professor at KU that was involved with the program.

 

[dlgoff]

It looks like Landsat-1 was launched in 1972

I think that's the time that my friends dad worked on the project at the University of Kansas. BTW, I graduated from KU in 1973.

 

[dlgoff]

@berkeman
I think this is the professor I was thinking of:
https://cresis.ku.edu/content/news/newsletter/2371