Monitoring Changes in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
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- Helen-Nicole Kostis
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Landsat imagery is critical for monitoring changes in developed area, tree canopy, farm fields, and all the landscapes that make up the 64,000 square miles of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, spanning six states and the District of Columbia.
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Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.
The Landsat Program is a series of Earth-observing satellite missions jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey.
The narration in this video is by Peter Claggett, a research geographer with the U.S. Geological Survey's Eastern Geographic Science Center. He has worked at the Chesapeake Bay Program Office since 2002, where he leads the Land Data Team that conducts research on land change characterization, analysis, and modeling in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
The audio was adapted from a radio interview with EarthSky.org.
Credits
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Audio adapted from EarthSky.org
Animators
- Helen-Nicole Kostis (USRA) [Lead]
- Cindy Starr (GST)
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
- Jeff de La Beaujardiere (NASA)
Video editor
- Matthew Radcliff (KBRwyle)
Scientist
- Peter Claggett (USGS)
Producer
- Matthew Radcliff (KBRwyle)
Missions
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