Earth ID: 845

Fly up the Chesapeake Bay to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Visualizations by Jesse Allen Released on April 9, 1999

This scene shows Landsat Thematic Mapper data from the shortwave infrared (TM band 5), infrared (TM band 4), and visible green (TM band 2) channels of the Chesapeake Bay. The Patuxent River can be seen running parallel to the Bay on the left, while the Choptank River enters the Bay on the right. Annapolis and Kent Island (flat look-down image) is from the 2nd of October, 1997, all other images are from 16 November, 1996. The change in color between these dates (predominately green in October, red in November) result from seasonal changes in vegetation.

Video slate image reads,
"Viewing the Chesapeake Bay
Using the Thematic Mapper (TM) data sets with shortwave IR, IR, and Visible bands mapped to red, green, and blue
16 Nov. 1996".

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Visualization Credits

Jesse Allen (Raytheon): Lead Animator
Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC): Scientist

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Mission:
Landsat

Data Used:

Landsat-5/TM

1996/11/16, 1997/10/02

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Keywords:
SVS >> Chesapeake Bay
DLESE >> Human geography
DLESE >> Physical geography
NASA Science >> Earth