Flown onboard Terra (formerly called EOS AM-1).

Applications: land use/land cover; environmental monitoring; climatology; geology; oceanography; ice and snow cover; coastal studies; soils.

Data collected in the visible and near infrared portions of the electromagnetic spectrum from 9 cameras; pixel size varies from 250 to 275 m.

When looking at the earth's surface at different angles, different amounts of atmosphere must be looked through, and each provides different types of information and benefits. The red and near-infrared portions of the spectrum are particularly useful for vegetation analyses and marine aerosol studies. Together, all four bands are useful for ocean color studies.

More information: http://www-misr.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html.

Data available through the NASA Langley Atmospheric Sciences Data Center: http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/

Lake Powell, northern Arizona, southern Utah, true color image acquired March 2000 (source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov).