{"id":1814017,"date":"2023-04-17T17:41:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T21:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1814017"},"modified":"2023-04-17T17:41:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T21:41:33","slug":"virginia-norwood-1927-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/04\/virginia-norwood-1927-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Norwood, 1927-2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virginia Norwood<\/a>, called \u201cthe mother of Landsat<\/a>\u201d for her invention of Landsat 1\u2019s multispectral scanner system, died on March 26th at the age of 96<\/a>. See also Landsat\u2019s memorial<\/a>. [Lat \u00d7 Long<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Previously: The Mother of Landsat<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Virginia Norwood, called \u201cthe mother of Landsat\u201d for her invention of Landsat 1\u2019s multispectral scanner system, died on March 26th at the age of 96. See also Landsat\u2019s memorial. [Lat \u00d7 Long] Previously: The Mother… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[581],"tags":[73,16,15,348],"class_list":["post-1814017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-landsat","tag-remote-sensing","tag-satellite","tag-women","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1805389,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/11\/first-images-from-landsat-9-released\/","url_meta":{"origin":1814017,"position":0},"title":"First Images from Landsat 9 Released","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"11 November 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"The latest of the Landsat satellites, Landsat 9, launched on September 27. 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