La Comisión Centroamericana de Ambiente y Desarrollo
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David E. Pitts CCAD - NASA Agreement Comisión Centroamericana de Ambiente y Desarrollo includes:Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama reement established in Dec. 1998 to utilize satellite and aircraft d develop land-use maps of Central America to demonstrate the nefits of Earth science data for the Mesoamerican Biological Corrido SA Stennis, JPL, and NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center participate rcraft and Satellite Data year program
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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" <[email protected]> of CCAD
"Cliff Holle" <[email protected]> of Intermap
"Policelli, Fritz" <[email protected]> of NASA Stennis
“Woody Turner” <[email protected]> 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
