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Geoscientists use satellite to determine not the shape of water, but how water shapes land

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Blacksburg VA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 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? "We wanted to show how the satellite could be used in ways that it wasn't pr
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terradaily.com broke the news in on Wednesday, January 21, 2026.
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