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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Space Remote Sensing
This image of the Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama coastline is a typical example of how scientists at NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, Miss., turn satellite data into useful tools for better understanding the earth’s natural processes. The Science and Technology Laboratory is Stennis Space Center’s primary scientific and research arm responsible for developing tools and techniques to help manage the environment more effectively. Much time is being devoted to tropical forest management, wetlands and coastal ecosystem analysis, and shallow water oceanography to name a few. With President Bush’s goal of returning to the moon and then venturing out to Mars during the next century, more effort is also being placed in life sciences projects. This image of the Gulf Coast was created from Landsat satellite multispectral scanner (MSS) data. Each color represents a different type of land cover.
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