Tuesday, September 15. 2009

NASA Landsat Data Key in METRIC Water Management App

Update: it won the American Government Award! (PR)

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The Idaho Department of Water Resources and the University of Idaho developed METRIC for Mapping EvapoTranspiration with High Resolution and Internalized Calibration, back in 2000. Now it's in use by 11 states and is a finalist for a Harvard Kennedy School Innovations in American Government Awards.

The program got even cheaper to use when NASA made the Landsat imagery free last year. And, after input from Western politicians, NASA has decided to include $100 million thermal infrared sensor needed to record surface temperature in the next Landsat satellite, scheduled to launch in 2012.

- Washington Post

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Remote Sensing at 06:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

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