National Aeronautics and Space Administration

False color satellite images can provide extremely valuable information about the world we live in. Just as butterflies benefit from their ability to detect invisible wavelengths, humans can benefit from the technology of satellite imaging.

Agriculture, Forestry and Range Resources	Land Use and Mapping	Geology	Hydrology	Coastal Resources	Environmental Monitoring
Discriminating vegetative, crop and timber types	Classifying land uses	Mapping major geologic features	Determining water boundaries and surface water areas	Determining patterns and extent of turbidity	Monitoring deforestation
Measuring crop and timber acreage	Cartographic mapping and map updating	Revising geologic maps	Mapping floods and flood plain characteristics	Mapping shoreline changes	Monitoring volcanic flow activity
Precision farming land management	Categorizing land capabilities	Recognizing and classifying certain rock types	Determining area extent of snow and ice coverage	Mapping shoals, reefs and shallow areas	Mapping and monitoring water pollution
Monitoring crop and forest harvests	Monitoring urban growth	Delineating unconsolidated rocks and soils	Measuring changes and extent of glacial features	Mapping and monitoring sea ice in shipping lanes	Determining effects of natural disasters
Determining range readiness, biomass and health	Aiding regional planning	Mapping volcanic surface deposits	Measuring turbidity and sediment patterns	Tracking beach erosion and flooding	Assessing drought impact
Determining soil conditions and associations	Mapping transportation networks	Mapping geologic landforms	Delineating irrigated fields	Monitoring coral reef health	Tracking oil spills
Monitoring desert blooms	Mapping land-water boundaries	Identifying indicators of mineral and petroleum resources	Monitoring lake inventories and health	Determining coastal circulation patterns	Assessing and monitoring grass and forest fires
Assessing wildlife habitat	Citing transportation and power transmission routes	Determining regional geologic structures	Estimating snow melt runoff	Measuring sea surface temperature	Mapping and monitoring lake eutrophication
Characterizing forest range vegetation	Planning solid waste disposal sites, power plants and other industries	Producing geomorphic maps	Characterizing tropical rainfall	Monitoring and tracking 'red' tides	Monitoring mine waste pollution
Monitoring and mapping insect infestations	Mapping and managing flood plains	Mapping impact craters	Mapping watersheds	Coral reef health assessment	Monitoring volcanic ash plumes
Monitoring irrigation practices	Tracking socioeconomic impacts on land use	Chevron discovery	Mapping closed-basin ponds	Global coral reef mapping	Assessing carbon stocks
Bison management	Online mapping	Mega-lake discovery	Monitoring wetlands	Chesapeake Bay restoration	Cancer research
Crop production estimates	Cartographic discoveries	Soil carbon flux	Water management	Monitoring coastal erosion	Atmospheric modeling
Quantifying burn severity	Mapping Antarctica		Wetland restoration	Coastal Studies	Mapping Rift Valley Fever risk areas
Fighting crop insurance fraud	Fighting hunger		Monitoring dam construction	Chesapeake Bay management	Assessing clear-cutting impacts
Forest trends in Madagascar	Urban sprawl and climate change		Groundwater discharge		Assessing impacts of industrial logging
Forest protection in Peru	Caribbean Island mapping		Bushfire impact on water yields		Mapping urban heat islands
Better Estimate of Boreal Forest Loss	Tropical forest clearing for development				Landsat, Potholes, and Climate Change
Crop water stress	Exploring ancient Mexico				Disaster aftermath
Crop water demand	Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica				African environmental change
Rice production monitoring	Kansas Map				Cyclone Nargis' impact on Burma
Demise of Papua New Guinea forests					Fire prevention in Spain
Monitoring conservation tillage					Surveying mangroves
North American forest disturbance					Greek fires
Sumatran deforestation					Algea monitoring
Forest damage caused by Hurricane Katrina					Glacier monitoring

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