Tar Heels first to check satellite data on small rivers
On a rapidly warming day in October 2023, Sophia Harvey waded into the muddy water of California’s Owens River to anchor a GPS receiver on a tripod. She and three Carolina classmates were gathering data on the river’s water level to compare with data from NASA’s new Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite.
Since its launch 10 months earlier, the SWOT satellite has orbited Earth at an altitude of over 500 miles to measure water surfaces worldwide.
Tar Heels first to check satellite data on small rivers
On a rapidly warming day in October 2023, Sophia Harvey waded into the muddy water of California’s Owens River to anchor a GPS receiver on a tripod. She and three Carolina classmates were gathering data on the river’s water level to compare with data from NASA’s new Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite.
Since its launch 10 months earlier, the SWOT satellite has orbited Earth at an altitude of over 500 miles to measure water surfaces worldwide.
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