ASTER User's Guide - NASA

ASTER Users Handbook11.2 Lake Tahoe11.2.1 ObjectiveThe objective of the Lake Tahoe CA/NV case study is to illustrate the use of ASTER data forwater-related studies.11.2.2 IntroductionLake Tahoe is a large lake situated in a granite graben near the crest of the Sierra NevadaMountains on the California - Nevada border, at 39° N, 120° W. The lake level is approximately1898 m above MSL. The lake is roughly oval in shape with a N-S major axis (33 km long, 18km wide), and has a surface area of 500 km 2 (Figure 20).Figure 20: Outline map of Lake Tahoe, CA/NV.The land portion of the watershed has an area of 800 km 2 . Lake Tahoe is the 11 th deepest lakein the world, with an average depth of 330 m, maximum depth of 499 m, and a total volume of45