Earth  ID: 3477

Chesapeake Bay Watershed Region (short version)

The watershed that drains into the Chesapeake Bay is a huge expanse that extends 64,000 miles into five states across North America (New York, Pensylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia) and the District of Columbia. This visualization overlays the full watershed onto a Landsat satellite visualization of the Bay area. The eight different distinctly colored regions indicate the Chesapeake's major subwatersheds. These subwatershed regions are: Susquehanna, Potomac, Patuxent, MD West Shore, Rapahhannock, Eastern Shore, James and York. This visualization contains just the last part of the Chesapeake Bay Flyover and Watershed Region (#3472) animation and demonstrates the entire Watershed without the Chesapeake Bay flyover. This animation highlights and labels each subwatershed in turn.

Data Notes:
The mosaic was created by EarthSat under contract with NASA as part of the GeoCover 2000 product. All images used in GeoCover were acquired by Landsat-7 during the period of 1999-2002. The pixel size of the full resolution image represents 14.25 m on the ground. The Chesapeake Bay mosaic uses portions of eight Landsat-7 scenes. Below you will find a listing of the eight Landsat 7 images that were put together to create the composite image. Landsat scenes are organized by a Path and Row number according to the Worldwide Reference System. (To learn more about Landsat's Worldwide Reference System, please visit: http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/wrs.html)

Scenes used in the Chesapeake Bay mosaic:

  • Landsat-7 WRS Path 15-Row 32 acquired on Oct. 05, 2001
  • Landsat-7 WRS Path 14-Row 32 acquired on Sept. 23, 1999
  • Landsat-7 WRS Path 15-Row 33 acquired on October 05, 2001
  • Landsat-7 WRS Path 14-Row 33 acquired on July 10, 2001
  • Landsat-7 WRS Path 15-Row 34 acquired on Sept. 30, 1999
  • Landsat-7 WRS Path 14-Row 34 acquired on July 10, 2001
  • Landsat-7 WRS Path 15-Row 35 acquired on Sept. 30, 1999
  • Landsat-7 WRS Path 14-Row 35 acquired on Sept. 23, 1999

Visualization Credits

Helen-Nicole Kostis (UMBC): Lead Animator
Cindy Starr (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Visualizer
Jeff de La Beaujardiere (NASA): Animator
Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Animator
Andrew Freeberg (NASA/GSFC): Producer
Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
Laura Rocchio (SSAI): Scientist
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Mission:
Landsat

Data Used:
Note: While we identify the data sets used in these visualizations, we do not store any further details nor the data sets themselves on our site.

This item is part of this series:
Chesapeake Bay

Goddard TV Tape:
G2008-034HD -- NASAs HD Chesapeake Bay Resource Tape

Keywords:
SVS >> Chesapeake Bay
SVS >> Flyover
SVS >> HDTV
SVS >> Landsat
GCMD >> Earth Science
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Hydrosphere >> Surface Water >> Runoff
SVS >> For Educators
SVS >> Destruction of Habitats
SVS >> Surface And Groundwater
SVS >> Oceanic Food Web
NASA Science >> Earth
NASA Earth Science Focus Areas >> Water and Energy Cycle

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0