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Jeff,<br>
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This is very good news. Thank you for your respective activities.<br>
And yes, good and repeat stereo imaging would be very valuable.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
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Tobias<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 16/11/2020 um 17:06 schrieb Jeffrey
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Dear GLIMS people:</div>
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I hope you are safe and healthy, or if you have fallen ill with
COVID that your recovery is full. And for the present
predicament of more lockdowns, I wish you sanity and contentment
as we await better days!</div>
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I am happy to say that our earlier recommended addition of two
sensor bands (what I called GLIMS1 and GLIMS2) has been adopted
in the still-evolving Landsat 10 design. They are called bands
13a and 13b. See the attached Landsat NEXT sensor specifications
document. I have responded to a recent NASA Request for
Information (other attached document), where I am pushing for a
good stereo imaging band at least the equal of ASTER's and
hopefully better. I included in it some guidance I think from
Ted Scambos, where we both agreed that 60 degrees was way too
much, because we would mainly be seeing hazes, and it is
overkill for parallax. The RFI included some words about a
possible multiplatform structure, which would make sense to aid
stereo imaging that way. So I really didn't have much guidance
to offer, aside from that important matter. It seems that it
will be an amazing satellite/camera/sensor setup, maybe not that
vast of an improvement over the super-amazing Sentinel-2, but an
improvement over that and also Landsat 8 (and 9 coming up next
year).</div>
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For those of you who responded to me during last June's flurry
of activity on this, thank you very much. Now, let's try to get
good stereo imaging!</div>
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Cheers,</div>
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Jeff Kargel </div>
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