Mission Costs of Earth-Observing Satellites

Friedl, Randall; Boland, Stacey

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Randall Friedl² &
Stacey Boland²

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This research was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the NASA.

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Friedl, R., Boland, S. (2014). Mission Costs of Earth-Observing Satellites. In: Njoku, E.G. (eds) Encyclopedia of Remote Sensing. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-36699-9_106

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