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La Comisión Centroamericana de Ambiente y
Desarrollo includesBelize, Costa Rica, El
Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and
Panama Agreement established in Dec. 1998 to
utilize satellite and aircraft data to 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 Honduras using 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 representatives via 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"
ltjcabrera_at_GCA1.citel.com.gtgt of CCAD "Cliff
Holle" ltcholle_at_ibm.netgt of Intermap "Policelli,
Fritz" ltFritz.Policelli_at_ssc.nasa.govgt of NASA
Stennis Woody Turner ltwturner_at_hq.nasa.govgt of
NASA Headquarters http//www-radar.jpl.nasa.gov/
srtm/statistics.html http//ghrc.msfc.nasa.gov/cc
ad/data.html http//www.ccad.org.gt