Chesapeake Bay Flyover and Watershed Region

  • Released Monday, April 21, 2008
  • Updated Wednesday, October 14, 2015 at 8:24AM
  • ID: 3472

The watershed that drains into the Chesapeake Bay is a huge expanse that extends 64,000 miles into six states across North America (New York, Pensylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, and West 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 is an extension of the Chesapeake Bay Flyover (#3446) in order to demonstrate the entire Chesapeake Bay Watershed 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.

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

This frame sequence contains the extended Chesapeake Bay Flyover without any statelines or the watershed overlay region

This frame sequence contains the US Statelines overlay only

This frame sequence contains the city and river text labels overlay

This frame sequence contains the river text labels overlay only

This frame sequence contains the city text labels overlay only

This frame sequence contains the Chesapeake Bay Watershed with text labels describing the different regions

Susquehanna Watershed Region

Susquehanna Watershed Region

Potomac Watershed Region

Potomac Watershed Region

Patuxent Watershed Region

Patuxent Watershed Region

MD West Shore Watershed Region

MD West Shore Watershed Region

Eastern Shore Watershed Region

Eastern Shore Watershed Region

Rappahannock Watershed Region

Rappahannock Watershed Region

York Watershed Region

York Watershed Region

James Watershed Region

James Watershed Region

Image: Chesapeake Bay Watershed Regions<br><b>Latitude</b> (min, max) = (36.32, 43.26)<br><b>Longitude</b> (min, max) = (73.93, 80.87)<br><br>This <a href='/vis/a000000/a003400/a003472/wms_product_description_3472_28124.html'>product is available through our Web Map Service</a>.

Image: Chesapeake Bay Watershed Regions
Latitude (min, max) = (36.32, 43.26)
Longitude (min, max) = (73.93, 80.87)

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Credits

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio


Missions

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Datasets used in this visualization

Landsat-7 (Collected with the ETM+ sensor)

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