Virginia Norwood, founding figure in field of satellite land imaging,dies at 96

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Virginia Norwood is credited with changing the way we see the world, as she designed and championed a piece of technology that is foundational to how we get images of the earth from space.

As a pioneering woman, Virginia Norwood designed and championed a technology that's foundational to how we get images of earth from space.

Virginia Norwood, a woman who changed the way we see the world, died over the weekend at the age of 96., was a founding figure in the field of satellite land imaging. She designed and championed a piece of technology that is foundational to how we get images of the earth from space. The pioneering woman graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked on several innovative programs that changed the world, NASA added.

She developed the Multispectral Scanner, which was key to the development of NASA's longest-running program for getting satellite imagery from space.Copyright © 2023 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.

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