Geoscientists use satellite data to determine how water shapes the land

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Jan 19, 2026, 2:59 pm88 pts
What's the shape of water? In 2022, NASA launched the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite to answer this question by precisely measuring the height and extent of bodies of water. Virginia Tech geoscientists are using the same satellite to ask a related question: How is water shaping the land?

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