Unit 1

Question 1

What did Mozi the philosopher prove?

Answer 1

“camera obscura”: light moves in a straight line

Question 2

What did Aristotle find?

Answer 2

Saw the projection of eclipsed sun on the ground as sunlight passed through small holes

Question 3

Who used a screen to view projected image from light?

Answer 3

Ibn al-Haytham

Question 4

When was the lens introduced?

Answer 4

16th Century

Question 5

Give an example of the first airborne remote sensing

Answer 5

1896 (rocket photograph) OR 1906 (kite photo of san fran)

Question 6

How did WWII contribute?

Answer 6

led to the emergence of color-infrared photography and the interpretation of air photos as a science/art

Question 7

How did WWI contribute?

Answer 7

Aerial photos were them used in natural resource management (photogrammetry took off)

Question 8

What is photogrammetry?

Answer 8

the art and science of extracting 3D information from photographs

Question 9

What was the first-low orbit meteorological satellite mission?

Answer 9

TIROS-1 (NASA) in 1960

Question 10

What dates did Landsat 1 span?

Answer 10

July 1972 - January 1978

Question 11

What dates did Landsat 2 span?

Answer 11

1975 - 1983

Question 12

Which Landsats are still in orbit?

Answer 12

Landsat 7 (1999), Landsat 8 (2013), and Landsat 9 (2020)

Question 13

Which landsat lasted much longer than expected?

Answer 13

Landsat 5 (1984 - 2013)

Question 14

When did Landsat archive become available to the public?

Answer 14

2008