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Banks Peninsula, New Zealand
The Banks Peninsula is located off the east coast of South Island, about 80 km from Christchurch, the largest city on South Island. Updated on 5/1/2009
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
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