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It takes a lot of data and some patient, creative processing to make an image of the world’s third largest estuary system.
NASA Earth Observatory image by Mike Taylor, using Landsat WELD data from Valeriy Kovalskyy and David Roy (South Dakota State University) and water data from Steve Foga (USGS). NASA Earth Observatory map by Joshua Stevens, using data from the Chesapeake Bay Program. Caption by Mike Carlowicz, with Ginger Butcher and Mike Taylor.
Published October 17, 2015 Data acquired 2015