RIT Professor Appointed to Landsat Science Team John Schott will
develop tools for monitoring fresh and coastal water Nov. 15,
2012 by Susan Gawlowicz Follow Susan Gawlowicz on Twitter Follow
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John Schott has been named to the Landsat Science Team by the
U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with NASA. Schott joins
an expert team of scientists and engineers that will serve five
years and provide technical and scientific support of the
upcoming Landsat 8 spacecraft to be launched in February 2013.
He will give input on issues pertaining to the use of satellite
data for monitoring fresh and coastal waters. “We hope that the
new Landsat instrument will allow us, for the first time, to
accurately map and monitor water quality conditions in the
complex waters found in the coastal and fresh water
environment,” says Schott, the Frederick and Anna B. Wiedman
Professor in Imaging Science in RIT’s Chester F. Carlson Center
for Imaging Science. A succession