A half-century ago, Virginia Tower Norwood ’47 invented the first multispectral scanner to image Earth from space. Landsat 1 and its successors have been scanning the planet continuously ever since.
In 1927, Jerome Spurr ’27 headed to Western Massachusetts for his first job. He and his colleagues would help pull off a feat of modern engineering that supplied Boston with fresh drinking water—and wiped four towns off the map.
The challenges of tackling this question are so daunting that few have tried. But Heather Kosakowski, a PhD candidate at MIT, is determined to find answers.
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