Oct 25 1977
From The Space Library
NASA announced it had agreed with the St: Regis Paper Co. in N.Y. to use the Landsat for monitoring from 900km (560mi) commercial timberlands owned by the company over a 5-state area in Fla., Ga., Ala., Miss:, and La: St: Regis would use the satellite data to manage its timberland. JSC would manage development of an automatic system for classifying forested areas, to identify kinds of trees, estimate timber volume, and detect changes in health or growth of the forests, combining the new system with existing data from aerial photography and ground surveys. Software and techniques from this first major undertaking between NASA and a private company would be in the public domain, to benefit other forest-resource managers: Past cooperative uses of Landsat had been between NASA and other U.S. or foreign government agencies: (NASA Release 77-226; JSC Release 77-73)
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