Chesapeake Bay Flyover
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- Helen-Nicole Kostis
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The Chesapeake Bay, an area of approximately 200 miles, is North America's largest estuary. The Bay and its tributaries comprises a complex ecosystem which encompasses rivers, wetlands, trees and habitats. This animation takes us on a tour around the Bay starting from its 'mouth' near Norfolk, Virginia, flying north up to the Susquehanna River and then flying down the area of the Eastern Shore all the way to the Fishermans Island, zooming out to get a look of the Chesapeake bay region. The imagery utilized for this animation is a false-color Chesapeake Bay Landsat-7 Mosaic (#3473) composed of eight scenes acquired between 1999-2002, which were put together and color corrected to resemble natural looking colors.
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
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animator
- Helen-Nicole Kostis (USRA) [Lead]
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Visualizer
- Cindy Starr (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Scientists
- Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC)
- Laura Rocchio (SSAI)
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Producer
- Andrew Freeberg (NASA/GSFC)
Missions
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Landsat-7
ID: 55This dataset can be found at: http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/wrs.html
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METEOSAT-6 Cloud Cover
ID: 349
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ID: 11202 Produced Video
Monitoring Changes in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Read moreLandsat is a critical and invaluable tool for characterizing the landscape and mapping it over time. Landsat data provides a baseline of observations for science about how human activities on the land affect water quality, affect wildlife habitat, affect air quality. The satellite imagery covers the entire 64,000 square miles of the Chesapeake Bay watershed (spanning six states and the District of Columbia). Without it we wouldn't be able to really understand how sources of nutrients and sediment have changed and where they are in the Chesapeake Bay. 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. ||
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