Chesapeake Bay Flyover and Watershed Region
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
Chesapeake Bay Flyover and Watershed Region animation with city and river labels
Chesapeake Bay Flyover and Watershed Region animation, without city and river labels
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
Potomac Watershed Region
Patuxent Watershed Region
MD West Shore Watershed Region
Eastern Shore Watershed Region
Rappahannock Watershed Region
York Watershed Region
James Watershed Region
Image: Chesapeake Bay Watershed Regions
Latitude (min, max) = (36.32, 43.26)
Longitude (min, max) = (73.93, 80.87)
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Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animators
- Helen-Nicole Kostis (UMBC)
- Jeff de La Beaujardiere (NASA)
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
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Visualizer
- Cindy Starr (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Producer
- Andrew Freeberg (NASA/GSFC)
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Scientists
- Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC)
- Laura Rocchio (SSAI)
Release date
This page was originally published on Monday, April 21, 2008.
This page was last updated on Monday, July 15, 2024 at 12:00 AM EDT.
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