Chesapeake Bay Flyover and Watershed Region
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- Helen-Nicole Kostis
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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
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
Animators
- Helen-Nicole Kostis (USRA) [Lead]
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
- Jeff de La Beaujardiere (NASA)
Visualizer
- Cindy Starr (GST)
Scientists
- Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC)
- Laura Rocchio (SSAI)
Producer
- Andrew Freeberg (NASA/GSFC)
Missions
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Landsat-7 (Collected with the ETM+ sensor)
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Related pages
Monitoring Changes in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Jan. 31, 2013, 11 a.m.
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 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. 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.For complete transcript, click here.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. For More InformationSee [http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/news/news-archive/soc_0035.html](http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/news/news-archive/soc_0035.html)