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The city of Irkutsk (centre left) and part of Lake Baikal (right) are pictured in this Sentinel-1A image over Russia’s Siberia region.
Baikal is the largest lake by volume in the world, containing over 23 000 cubic km of freshwater, and is considered to be the oldest lake in the world. It sits in the Baikal Rift Zone where Earth’s crust is pulling apart. Hot springs are found under and around the lake.
The area has over 1000 species of plants and 2500 species of animals. More than 80% of the animals found here are endemic.
Located on the Angara River, Irkutsk is a popular stop on the Trans-Siberian railway because of its vicinity to Lake Baikal.
This image combines three radar scans from the Sentinel-1A satellite on 11 January, 4 February and 24 March 2015, with each scan being assigned a colour: red, green and blue. The colours present in Lake Baikal and the Angara River show the location of ice on the different dates.
Sentinel-1A marks one year in orbit today, 3 April. It is the first satellite for Europe’s Copernicus environment monitoring programme, delivering information on Earth’s oceans, ice and changing lands.
The data from the satellite benefit a variety of services related to, for example, the monitoring of Arctic sea-ice extent, routine sea-ice mapping, surveillance of the marine environment, monitoring land-surface for motion risks, mapping for forest, water and soil management, and mapping to support humanitarian aid and crisis situations.
This image is featured on the Earth from Space video programme.
Credit: Copernicus data (2015)/ESA
Sentinel-3A – the first in the two-satellite Sentinel-3 mission – lifted off on a Rockot launcher from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia at 17:57 GMT (18:57 CET) on 16 February 2016.
Credit: ESA - Stephane Corvaja
This is one of the first images received from Sentinel-3A’s Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer (SLSTR). Acquired with the instrument’s visible channels on 2 March 2016 at 10:04 GMT, this false-colour image features a large part of Europe showing vegetated areas in red. Moreover, the image demonstrates the instrument’s 1400 km-wide swath. The image also clearly shows storm Jake over the UK. As the SLSTR scans Earth’s surface, it senses visible light and infrared light (heat) in a number of different spectral channels. However, the thermal infrared channels will soon be working when the instrument has finished outgassing water vapour. This is necessary because the infrared channels must be cooled to operate properly. Once operational, the thermal-infrared channels will measure global sea- and land-surface temperatures every day to an accuracy of better than 0.3ºC.
Credit: Copernicus data (2016)
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This is one of the first images from Sentinel-3A’s Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer (SLSTR). Acquired with the instrument’s visible channels on 3 March 2016 at 11:23 GMT, this false-colour image features the Spanish Canary Islands, the Portuguese island of Madeira and the northwest coast of Africa. The vegetated islands appear red in contrast to Western Sahara, which has little vegetation. The snow-capped peak of Mount Teide on the island of Tenerife is clearly visible. Both SLSTR and Sentinel-3’s Ocean and Land Colour Instrument, OLCI, will be used to monitor plant health. As the SLSTR scans Earth’s surface, it senses visible light and infrared light (heat) in a number of different spectral channels. The thermal infrared channels will soon be working when the instrument has finished outgassing water vapour. This is necessary because the infrared channels must be cooled to operate properly. The SLSTR will measure global sea- and land-surface temperatures every day to an accuracy of better than 0.3ºC.
Credit: Copernicus data (2016)
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This Sentinel-1 radar composite image takes us to the northeastern tip of Ellesmere Island (lower-left), where the Nares Strait opens up into the Lincoln Sea in the Canadian Arctic.
The image was created by combining three radar scans from Copernicus Sentinel-1 captured in December, January and February. Each image has been assigned a colour – red, green and blue – and create this colourful composite when combined. Colours show changes between acquisitions, such as the movement of ice in the Lincoln Sea, while the static landmass is grey.
The obvious distinction between the red and yellow depicts how the ice cover has changed over the three months.
The maximum extent of Arctic sea ice hit a record low this winter. Scientists attribute the reduced ice cover to a very warm autumn and winter, exacerbated by a number of extreme winter ‘heat waves’ over the Arctic Ocean.
In the centre-left on the land, we can see a straight, dark link with a circle at its left end. This is the runway for Alert – the northernmost known settlement in the world. Inhabited mainly by military and scientific personnel on rotation, Alert is about 800 km from the North Pole.
A team of researchers on the CryoVex/Karen campaign was recently in Alert validating sea-ice thickness measurements from the CryoSat satellite and testing future satellite mission concepts.
Taking off from Alert, the team flew two aircraft equipped with instruments that measure sea-ice thickness at the same time the satellite flew some 700 km overhead. The measurements from the airborne campaign will be compared to the satellite measurements in order to confirm the satellite’s accuracy.
A team will also make ground measurements of snow and ice along a CryoSat ground track in April.
Ground campaigns like this provide a wealth of data that help scientists better understand how the Arctic is changing and, ultimately, how climate is changing.
This image is featured on the Earth from Space video programme.
Credit: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2016-17), processed by ESA
Images from the Sentinel-2A satellite from February to October 2016 show the changing landscape in Spain’s Brazo de Este natural park and around the city of Los Palacios y Villafranca.
Part of the Guadalquivir river basin, the area pictured has a rich agriculture with crops including rice, watermelon, pepper, cucumber, tomato and quinoa. In this animation we can clearly see changes in the fields as different crops grow at different rates, and are harvested in different seasons.
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission is designed to provide images that can be used to distinguish between different crop types as well as data on numerous plant features, such as leaf area, chlorophyll content and water content – all essential for accurately monitoring plant growth.
See the images in GIF format here.
Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2016), processed by ESA
Sentinel-2B satellite at ESA’s site in the Netherlands, on 14 November 2016, before being packed up and shipped to French Guiana for its spring launch.
Offering ‘colour vision’ for Europe’s environmental monitoring Copernicus programme, Sentinel-2 combines high-resolution and novel multispectral capabilities to monitor Earth’s changing lands in unprecedented detail and accuracy.
Sentinel-2 is designed as a two-satellite constellation: Sentinel-2A and -2B. Sentinel-2A was launched on 23 June 2015 and has been providing routine imagery for the EU Copernicus Land Monitoring Service, among others. Once Sentinel-2B is launched and operational, the constellation will offer a global revisit every five days.
Information from this mission is helping to improve agricultural practices, monitor the world’s forest, detect pollution in lakes and coastal waters, and contribute to disaster mapping, to name a few.
The satellite was built by an industrial consortium led by prime contractor Airbus Defence and Space in Friedrichshafen, Germany.
Sentinel-2B will be launched in spring 2017 on a Vega rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
Credit: ESA–Philippe Sebirot, 2016
Sentinel-2B satellite at ESA’s site in the Netherlands, on 14 November 2016, before being packed up and shipped to French Guiana for its spring launch.
Offering ‘colour vision’ for Europe’s environmental monitoring Copernicus programme, Sentinel-2 combines high-resolution and novel multispectral capabilities to monitor Earth’s changing lands in unprecedented detail and accuracy.
Sentinel-2 is designed as a two-satellite constellation: Sentinel-2A and -2B. Sentinel-2A was launched on 23 June 2015 and has been providing routine imagery for the EU Copernicus Land Monitoring Service, among others. Once Sentinel-2B is launched and operational, the constellation will offer a global revisit every five days.
Information from this mission is helping to improve agricultural practices, monitor the world’s forest, detect pollution in lakes and coastal waters, and contribute to disaster mapping, to name a few.
The satellite was built by an industrial consortium led by prime contractor Airbus Defence and Space in Friedrichshafen, Germany.
Sentinel-2B will be launched in spring 2017 on a Vega rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
Credit: ESA–Philippe Sebirot, 2016
Sentinel-2B satellite at ESA’s site in the Netherlands, on 14 November 2016, before being packed up and shipped to French Guiana for its spring launch.
Offering ‘colour vision’ for Europe’s environmental monitoring Copernicus programme, Sentinel-2 combines high-resolution and novel multispectral capabilities to monitor Earth’s changing lands in unprecedented detail and accuracy.
Sentinel-2 is designed as a two-satellite constellation: Sentinel-2A and -2B. Sentinel-2A was launched on 23 June 2015 and has been providing routine imagery for the EU Copernicus Land Monitoring Service, among others. Once Sentinel-2B is launched and operational, the constellation will offer a global revisit every five days.
Information from this mission is helping to improve agricultural practices, monitor the world’s forest, detect pollution in lakes and coastal waters, and contribute to disaster mapping, to name a few.
The satellite was built by an industrial consortium led by prime contractor Airbus Defence and Space in Friedrichshafen, Germany.
Sentinel-2B will be launched in spring 2017 on a Vega rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
Credit: ESA–Philippe Sebirot, 2016
Following liftoff on 25 April 2016, the Copernicus Sentinel-1B satellite has been commissioned and handed over for mission operations. It joins its identical twin, Sentinel-1A, which has been systematically scanning Earth with its radar since October 2014. Orbiting 180° apart, the two satellites optimise coverage and data delivery for the Copernicus services that are making a step change in the way our environment is managed. More than 45 000 users have registered to access Sentinel data, under the free and open policy framework of Europe’s Copernicus environmental monitoring programme.
Both satellites carry a radar that images Earth’s surface through cloud and rain and regardless of whether it is day or night. These images are used for many applications, such as monitoring ice in the polar seas, tracking land subsidence, and for responding to disasters such as floods.
On 14 September, project manager Ramón Torres (left) who led the development team, handed over the satellite to the mission manager, Pierre Potin (right) in the presence of Volker Liebig, Senior Advisor to ESA’s Director General.
Credit: ESA
Testing the deployment of the Sentinel-1A radar antenna in the cleanroom at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France, on 21 January 2014. As the satellite is designed to operate in orbit, it is hung from a structure during tests to simulate weightlessness.
The Synthetic Aperture Radar, or SAR, will provide an all-weather day-and-night supply of imagery for services such as the monitoring of Arctic sea-ice extent, routine sea-ice mapping, surveillance of the marine environment, monitoring land-surface for motion risks and mapping to support humanitarian aid and crisis situations.
Sentinel-1A – the first satellite built for the Copernicus environmental monitoring programme – is foreseen for launch in the spring of 2014 from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
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www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus...
Testing the deployment of the Sentinel-1A radar antenna in the cleanroom at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France, on 21 January 2014. As the satellite is designed to operate in orbit, it is hung from a structure during tests to simulate weightlessness.
The Synthetic Aperture Radar, or SAR, will provide an all-weather day-and-night supply of imagery for services such as the monitoring of Arctic sea-ice extent, routine sea-ice mapping, surveillance of the marine environment, monitoring land-surface for motion risks and mapping to support humanitarian aid and crisis situations.
Sentinel-1A – the first satellite built for the Copernicus environmental monitoring programme – is foreseen for launch in the spring of 2014 from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
Read more:
www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus...
Testing the deployment of the Sentinel-1A radar antenna in the cleanroom at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France, on 21 January 2014. As the satellite is designed to operate in orbit, it is hung from a structure during tests to simulate weightlessness.
The Synthetic Aperture Radar, or SAR, will provide an all-weather day-and-night supply of imagery for services such as the monitoring of Arctic sea-ice extent, routine sea-ice mapping, surveillance of the marine environment, monitoring land-surface for motion risks and mapping to support humanitarian aid and crisis situations.
Sentinel-1A – the first satellite built for the Copernicus environmental monitoring programme – is foreseen for launch in the spring of 2014 from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
Read more:
www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus...
Testing the deployment of the Sentinel-1A radar antenna in the cleanroom at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France, on 21 January 2014. As the satellite is designed to operate in orbit, it is hung from a structure during tests to simulate weightlessness.
The Synthetic Aperture Radar, or SAR, will provide an all-weather day-and-night supply of imagery for services such as the monitoring of Arctic sea-ice extent, routine sea-ice mapping, surveillance of the marine environment, monitoring land-surface for motion risks and mapping to support humanitarian aid and crisis situations.
Sentinel-1A – the first satellite built for the Copernicus environmental monitoring programme – is foreseen for launch in the spring of 2014 from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
Read more:
www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus...
Testing the deployment of the Sentinel-1A radar antenna in the cleanroom at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France, on 21 January 2014. As the satellite is designed to operate in orbit, it is hung from a structure during tests to simulate weightlessness.
The Synthetic Aperture Radar, or SAR, will provide an all-weather day-and-night supply of imagery for services such as the monitoring of Arctic sea-ice extent, routine sea-ice mapping, surveillance of the marine environment, monitoring land-surface for motion risks and mapping to support humanitarian aid and crisis situations.
Sentinel-1A – the first satellite built for the Copernicus environmental monitoring programme – is foreseen for launch in the spring of 2014 from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
Read more:
www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus...
Effluent from wastewater treatment facilities is often used for irrigation on golf courses and other green spaces. NOAA scientists in South Carolina are conducting research to determine if pharmaceuticals present in this wastewater persist long enough to reach coastal ecosystems.
(Original source and more information: NOAA Website)
NOAA scientists collect water samples for pharmaceutical analysis.
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The cylindrical, clover-shaped aerial vehicle with a mounted camera on board is one of the latest breed of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) - commonly known as "drones". IAEA Vienna, Austria, 15 May 2013.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Lighter and equipped with Global Positioning System (GPS) and battery technology developed for smart phones, today's UAV system can fill an important gap between walking surveys and manned aerial inspections. These are already widely used for other kinds of environmental monitoring, including air pollution and video surveillance. IAEA Vienna, Austria, 15 May 2013
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
The cylindrical, clover-shaped aerial vehicle with a mounted camera on board is one of the latest breed of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) - commonly known as "drones". IAEA Vienna, Austria, 15 May 2013
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Mr. Ralf Kaiser, Section Head, IAEA Physics Section and Mr. Daud Mohamad, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, together with IAEA officials and staff, were treated to a demonstration of the capabilities of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone in connection with a consultancy meeting on using UAVS for rapid environmental monitoring. The meeting took place at IAEA headquarters from 14 to 17 May 2013.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
IAEA officials and staff were treated to a demonstration of the capabilities of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone in connection with a consultancy meeting on using UAVs for rapid environmental monitoring. IAEA Vienna, Austria. 15 May 2013.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
The cylindrical, clover-shaped aerial vehicle with a mounted camera on board is one of the latest breed of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) - commonly known as "drones". IAEA Vienna, Austria, 15 May 2013
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
IAEA officials and staff were treated to a demonstration of the capabilities of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone in connection with a consultancy meeting on using UAVs for rapid environmental monitoring. The meeting took place at IAEA headquarters from 14 to 17 May 2013.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
IAEA officials and staff were treated to a demonstration of the capabilities of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone in connection with a consultancy meeting on using UAVs for rapid environmental monitoring. The meeting took place at IAEA headquarters from 14 to 17 May 2013.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
IAEA officials and staff were treated to a demonstration of the capabilities of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone in connection with a consultancy meeting on using UAVs for rapid environmental monitoring. IAEA Vienna, Austria. 15 May 2013.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
IAEA officials and staff were treated to a demonstration of the capabilities of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone in connection with a consultancy meeting on using UAVs for rapid environmental monitoring. IAEA Vienna, Austria. 15 May 2013.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
ROUSES POINT, N.Y. -- New York Naval Militia (NYNM) members Chief Petty Officer Wayne Hurlburt (left) and Petty Officer 1st Class Robert Hill (right) operate a 28-foot boat on Lake Champlain during Operation Clear Passage, a three-day, multi-agency homeland security exercise and water quality/navigational-boating enforcement event held on the lake from July 22 to 24. Hill and Hurlburt transported members of the 2nd Civil Support Team (CST) during the operation. The CST and NYNM members were among more than 75 personnel from 17 federal, state and international agencies that conducted law enforcement, homeland security and environmental monitoring missions throughout the operation. Hurlburt is from North Granville, N.Y and Hill is from Grafton, N.Y. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Raymond Drumsta)
ROUSES POINT, N.Y. -- New York Naval Militia (NYNM) members Chief Petty Officer Wayne Hurlburt (left) and Petty Officer 1st Class Robert Hill (right) confer about navigation while operating a 28-foot boat on Lake Champlain during Operation Clear Passage, a three-day, multi-agency homeland security exercise and water quality/navigational-boating enforcement event held on the lake from July 22 to 24. Hill and Hurlburt transported members of the 2nd Civil Support Team (CST) during the operation. The CST and NYNM members were among more than 75 personnel from 17 federal, state and international agencies that conducted law enforcement, homeland security and environmental monitoring missions throughout the operation. Hurlburt is from North Granville, N.Y and Hill is from Grafton, N.Y. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Raymond Drumsta)
ROUSES POINT, N.Y. -- New York Naval Militia (NYNM) member Chief Petty Officer Wayne Hurlburt, in charge of a 28-foot NYNM boat, prepares to tie off to a suspect boat detained on Lake Champlain during Operation Clear Passage, a three-day, multi-agency homeland security exercise and water quality/navigational-boating enforcement event held on the lake from July 22 to 24. Hurlburt and Petty Officer 1st Class Robert Hill transported members of the New York National Guard's 2nd Civil Support Team (CST), during the operation. The CST and NYNM members were among more than 75 personnel from 17 federal, state and international agencies that conducted law enforcement, homeland security and environmental monitoring missions throughout the operation. Hurlburt is from North Granville, N.Y.
(U.S. Army National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Raymond Drumsta)
ROUSES POINT, N.Y. -- New York Army National Guard Staff Sgt. David Hansen, a survey chief from the New York National Guard's 2nd Civil Support Team (CST), uses an Identifinder to check for radioactive materials aboard a suspect boat during Operation Clear Passage, a three-day, multi-agency homeland security exercise and water quality/navigational-boating enforcement event held on Lake Champlain from July 22 to 24. During the operation, 2nd CST members successfully found radiation sources on a boat and parked cars in and around the lake. Members of the 2nd CST and New York Naval Militia were among more than 75 personnel from 17 federal, state and international agencies that conducted law enforcement, homeland security and environmental monitoring missions throughout the operation. Hansen is from Melrose, N.Y. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Raymond Drumsta)
This stitchbird (hihi in Māori) is only a few days old. I was helping out with the monitoring of the population during the breeding season, and a big killer of these chicks is mites. So we had to take a few of them out of their nests to de-bug them, as well as taking some blood samples to check if they were healthy.
Hihi are pretty rare birds, but they are slowly being reintroduced to the mainland.
Latin name: Notiomystis cincta.
ROUSES POINT, N.Y. -- A member of the New York National Guard's 2nd Civil Support Team (CST) checks a component of a PackEye Radiation Detection Backpack CST members used to detect radiation during Operation Clear Passage, a three-day, multi-agency homeland security exercise and water quality/navigational-boating enforcement event held on Lake Champlain from July 22 to 24. During the operation, 2nd CST members successfully found radiation sources on a boat and parked cars in and around the lake. Members of the 2nd CST and New York Naval Militia were among more than 75 personnel from 17 federal, state and international agencies that conducted law enforcement, homeland security and environmental monitoring missions throughout the operation. Like other CST troops, the 2nd CST member is wearing a optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) safety device -- called a "Rad Watch" -- on his right wrist. The watch measures the total radiation the wearer has absorbed. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Raymond Drumsta)
ROUSES POINT, N.Y. -- New York Army National Guard Staff Sgt. David Hansen, a survey chief from the New York National Guard's 2nd Civil Support Team (CST), uses an Identifinder to check for radioactive materials aboard a suspect boat during Operation Clear Passage, a three-day, multi-agency homeland security exercise and water quality/navigational-boating enforcement event held on Lake Champlain from July 22 to 24. During the operation, 2nd CST members successfully found radiation sources on a boat and parked cars in and around the lake. Members of the 2nd CST and New York Naval Militia were among more than 75 personnel from 17 federal, state and international agencies that conducted law enforcement, homeland security and environmental monitoring missions throughout the operation. Hansen is from Melrose, N.Y. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Raymond Drumsta)
ROUSES POINT, N.Y. -- New York Army National Guard Sgt. 1st Class Brandon Willit, a reconnaissance non-commissioned officer in the New York National Guard's 2nd Civil Support Team (CST), calls in a report while New York Naval Militia (NYNM) member Petty Officer 1st Class Robert Hill (right) operates a boat during Operation Clear Passage, a three-day, multi-agency homeland security exercise and water quality/navigational-boating enforcement event held on Lake Champlain from July 22 to 24. During the operation, 2nd CST members successfully found radiation sources on a boat and parked cars in and around the lake. Members of the 2nd CST and NYNM were among more than 75 personnel from 17 federal, state and international agencies that conducted law enforcement, homeland security and environmental monitoring missions throughout the operation. Willit is from Voorheesville, N.Y. and Hill is from Grafton, N.Y. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Raymond Drumsta)
ROUSES POINT, N.Y. -- Aboard a New York Naval Militia (NYNM) boat, New York Army National Guard Staff Sgt. David Hansen, a survey chief from the New York National Guard's 2nd Civil Support Team (CST), checks a PackEye Radiation Detection Backpack during Operation Clear Passage, a three-day, multi-agency homeland security exercise and water quality/navigational-boating enforcement event held on Lake Champlain from July 22 to 24. During the operation, 2nd CST members successfully found radiation sources on a boat and parked cars in and around the lake. Members of the 2nd CST and NYSNM were among more than 75 personnel from 17 federal, state and international agencies that conducted law enforcement, homeland security and environmental monitoring missions throughout the operation. Hansen is from Melrose, N.Y. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Raymond Drumsta)
ROUSES POINT, N.Y. -- New York Army National Guard Staff Sgt. David Hansen, a survey chief from the New York National Guard's 2nd Civil Support Team (CST), uses an Identifinder to check for radioactive materials aboard a suspect boat during Operation Clear Passage, a three-day, multi-agency homeland security exercise and water quality/navigational-boating enforcement event held on Lake Champlain from July 22 to 24. During the operation, 2nd CST members successfully found radiation sources on a boat and parked cars in and around the lake. Members of the 2nd CST and New York Naval Militia were among more than 75 personnel from 17 federal, state and international agencies that conducted law enforcement, homeland security and environmental monitoring missions throughout the operation. Hansen is from Melrose, N.Y. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Raymond Drumsta)