The dark green strip along the north side of the river, is the Nisbet Provincial Forest. This part of Saskatchewan is a transitional area between the dominating agricultural areas of the south and the forested regions in the northern part of the province.

The word Saskatchewan, comes from the Plains Cree word "kisiskatchewan". Saskatchewan is celebrating its 90th year as a province in 1995.

187km subdivided into 30m pixels equals (187,000 / 30) approximately 6,200 pixels. Similarly, 170km represents (170,000 / 30) approximately 5,700 pixels. Therefore in each band of a TM scene are: (6,200 >x 5,700) about 35,000,000 pixels. The Landsat TM sensor collects data from 7 separate bands of the electromagnetic spectrum, resulting in a total of 245,000,000 pixels for each scene. If each pixel of each band is stored as one computer "byte", then we have 245,000,000 bytes. This is better expressed as 245M (1 megabyte = 1,000,000 bytes, approximately). You would need over 240 "megs" of storage to keep just one Landsat TM scene!

Through our two satellite receiving stations, we receive about 100 of these scenes every day through the summer months, for a total of 15,000 to 20,000 scenes per year. And that's just from one of the satellites that we track!