1. 1 Suborbital Science Program Airborne Remote Sensing of the SF Bay NASA Ames Research Center University of California Santa Cruz Airborne Science & Technology Laboratory San Francisco from NASA U-2 at 65,000 ft, 1972

2. 2 Why Airborne Imagery? Spatial Resolution Comparison 50m (AOCI from ER-2) 1Km (SeaWiFS Pixel Size) [San Diego Sewage Plume] Ames ASTL

3. 3 First NASA U-2 Image of San Francisco Bay (Sept. 4, 1979) ER-2 Aircraft at low altitude

4. 4 Ames Research Center San Francisco From 65,000 ft (1972) San Francisco ER-2 AOCI Image (50 m.)

5. 5 San Pablo Bay Water Color ER-2 TMS Image, c. 1986

6. 6 San Francisco Bay Surface Temperature (ER-2 MAS Thermal Infrared, 3/27/04, 50m) Ames Research Center

7. 7 Thermal Plume from Hunters Point Power Plant (C-130 NS001, c. 1984. 7 m.) Thermal IR (water) + Natural Color (land) Ames Research Center

8. 8 Bair Island Area MASTER 3/13/2000 (for USGS Wetland Research Center)

9. 9 AVIRIS Hyper-Spectral Data Cube of South Bay (1997, 20m) Courtesy of JPL

10. 10 Newark Quad Wetland Mapping Project ( NASA/EPA/USFWS, 1985)

11. 11 Extreme Low Tide, Showing SAV NASA U-2 Color Infrared Photograph, 1975 (PI: Chavez, USGS)

12. 12 IMAGE CLASSIFICATION MAP OVERLAID ON 3-meter Ortho-rectified TMS Data Northern Puget Sound, Washington Eelgrass beds (Zostera Marina) Using an Airborne Thematic Mapper Simulator at Extreme Low Tide NASA/EPA

13. 13 The New UAV-AMS Ocean Color Imager Band Center Wl, nm 1 412* 2 443* 3 490* 4 510* 5 555* 6 620 7 670* 8 770* 9 860* 10 1024 11 11.5um *SeaWiFS Bands Aircraft Platforms: Altair or Global Hawk UAV, ER-2, WB-57, B200, Cessna Caravan SeaWiFS Bands + Thermal IR for SST Variable Resolution (2 – 50 meters) Automatic Geo-Referencing Highly Calibrated Ames ASTL The General Atomics Altair UAV

14. 14 Recent Flight Test Data From the UAV-AMS (Autonomous Modular Sensor) (April 20, 2006) Sky Research Cessna 208 Caravan (OK, not a UAV – but a lot cheaper!) AMS Spectrometer & Scan Head

15. 15 Guadalupe Slough (8 m.) Natural ColorThermal IR

16. 16 Dumbarton Bridge Area (8 m.) Natural Color Thermal Infrared

17. 17 Richmond-San Rafael Bridge (8 m.) Natural Color Thermal IR

18. 18 Stevens Creek Outlet (8 m.) Natural Color Thermal IR

19. 19 Sacramento Delta - Liberty Island Levee Breach NASA AMS Sensor 4/20/06 2 m. resolution) Natural Color Thermal IR Sacramento Deep Water Channel

20. 20 Sacramento River Delta Area Frank’s Tract Thermal IR (2 m.)

21. 21 Towards an Integrated Sensor Web for Coastal Observations… Courtesy MBARI