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Would be different. so you can track changes to the vegetation. >> now, you all have gone up already with this radar on one flight, but you're going up again. and you hope to learn a lot more this second time around. >> well, we went up last week, and we got what's called a baseline. we imaged the coast from the florida keys all the way to corpus christi, texas. and a lot of that has been oil, but not all of it. and so we're going to go out and go back later once, you know, the oil has stopped coming out and once it -- a lot of it has hit the coastline, and try to track where the oil has gone,...

Vehicle radar. >> i always love you guys with the names. this is fairly new technology, only been in use i believe you said over the past year-and-a-half. so how does this help? had i know you used it with other disasters, but let's talk specifically oil right now. how can this help us understand what this oil is doing? >> well, this is a radar instrument, and so you're looking at scattered radiation from the surface. and oil on water actually comes back as a very dark scat terror. so you can try to track the extent of the oil as it moves on the water. and then once it hits the coastline, the ...