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La Comisión Centroamericana de Ambiente y Desarrollo

includes:Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama

Agreement established in Dec. 1998 to utilize satellite and aircraft datato develop land-use maps of Central America to demonstrate the benefits of Earth science data for the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor.

NASA Stennis, JPL, and NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center participate

Aircraft and Satellite Data

3 year program

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Historical Data

Landsat TM Imagery

GOES 8 Data

Instituto Meteorolgico Nacional Data

SIR-C/X-SAR acquired in 1994 on STS-59 and STS-64

World Conservation Monitoring Centre Land Cover Maps

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New Data

Space Shuttle Mission STS-99 C-band and X-band (IFSARs) will acquire topographic data

September 1999

Resolution 30m, vertical accuracy ±16 m

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New Data

Aircraft Interferometric x-band SAR from Earthwatch Inc.

Data Collection began March 16, 1999 in Hondurasusing a Lear 36 aircraft

20,000 sq km of imagery (all CCAD countries)

Scheduled for completion - early June 1999

To be available through the official CCAD representativesvia NASA Stennis

Resolution 2.5 m, vertical resolution ± 3 m

SAR & DEM data assimilated into 7.5’ quadrangle mosaics

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Contacts and web pages

"Cabrera, Jorge" <jcabrera@GCA1.citel.com.gt> of CCAD

"Cliff Holle" <cholle@ibm.net> of Intermap

"Policelli, Fritz" <Fritz.Policelli@ssc.nasa.gov> of NASA Stennis

“Woody Turner” <wturner@hq.nasa.gov> of NASA Headquarters

http://www-radar.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/statistics.html

http://ghrc.msfc.nasa.gov/ccad/data.html

http://www.ccad.org.gt