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Elk Hills Oil Field, CA
The Elk Hills Oil Field (formerly the Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 1) is a large oil field in northwestern Kern County, in the Elk Hills of the San Joaquin Valley, California about 32 km west of Bakersfield. Discovered in 1911, and having a cumulative production of close to 1.3 billion barrels of oil at the end of 2006, it is the fifth-largest oil field in California, and the seventh-most productive field in the United States. Updated on 1/9/2009
ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) is an imaging instrument flying on Terra, a satellite launched in December 1999 as part of NASA's Earth Observing
System (EOS). ASTER is a cooperative effort between NASA, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade
and Industry (METI) and Japan's Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center
(ERSDAC). ASTER
is being
used to obtain detailed maps of land surface temperature, reflectance and elevation.
The three EOS platforms are part of NASA's Science Mission Directorate and the
Earth-Sun System,
whose goal is to observe, understand, and model the Earth system to discover
how it is changing, to better predict change, and to understand the
consequences for life on Earth.
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