Earth  ID: 11202

Monitoring Changes in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

Released on January 31, 2013
Landsat 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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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.

 

Related

Chesapeake Bay Flyover
Chesapeake Bay Flyover and Watershed Region

For More Information

http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/news/news-archive/soc_0035.html

Credits

Helen-Nicole Kostis (USRA): Lead Animator
Cindy Starr (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Animator
Jeff de La Beaujardiere (NASA): Animator
Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Animator
Matthew R. Radcliff (USRA): Video Editor
Matthew R. Radcliff (USRA): Producer
Peter Claggett (USGS): Scientist
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Audio adapted from EarthSky.org

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Mission:
Landsat

This item is part of these series:
Narrated Movies
Chesapeake Bay
Landsat

Goddard TV Tape:
G2013-020 -- Chesapeake Flyover

Keywords:
SVS >> HDTV
DLESE >> Hydrology
SVS >> Impervious
SVS >> Landsat
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Oceans >> Water Quality
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Hydrosphere >> Surface Water >> Runoff
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Land Surface >> Landscape >> Landscape Ecology
SVS >> Hyperwall
NASA Science >> Earth

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0