The US Geologiocal Survey's
Earth Rescources Observation and Science Center, or "EROS"
archive’s data from the LandSat satellites
which have been in operation from 1972 to the presnet day.
EarthShots presents environmental changes using landsat images.
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Fresh lava flows from the 2018 eruption of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii.
Flooding caused by the category 3 Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, LA.
Center-pivot irrigation systems near Garden City, KA.
Red indicates growing crops.
Urban expansion in China's largest city
Farm fields become grasslands in the years after the nuclear accident in Chernobyl.
Evaporation ponds on the southern dead sea
An open-pit copper mine in the Atacama desert.
The Filchner Ice Shelf in Antarctica breaks up over time into large icebergs.
Urban growth in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area.
Healthy crops are red, and gray shows where hail wiped out cropland
in the Sioux Falls, South Dakota area.
Rainy weather in the 1980s brought the Great Salt Lake to high water levels.
Shrimp farming on the coast of Central America
The sediment-laden Yellow River forms a beak-shaped delta.
A glacier blocks a fjord to form a temporary lake.
Here we can see deforestation along with the formation of a large reservoir.
Visible changes to the layout of farmland in the Netherlands.
Different intensity of irrigated farmland on the US-Mexico border.
Land reclaimed for agriculture behind a sea wall
Changing water levels in a Caspian Sea lagoon
Glaciers on Mount Kilimanjaro can be seen shrinking over time.
The changing delta of the Omo River Kenya
Shifting locations of coal mines and reclaimed land in Ohio
Agriculture shown in red expanding from the banks of The Nile River across the tan colored desert
Miles of rain forest in Brazil cleared for farming and grazing.
Chile's expanding capitol city, with agriculture shown in bright red
New land adds to the island nation of Singapore
The path of a tornado is clearly visible through a small town.
Large swaths of Bolivian rainforest are converted to agriculture.
Expansion of Australia's largest city.
Burn scars from annual fires in the Australian bush
A rapidly retreating glacier along the Alaskan coast.
Expanding open-pit dimond mines in northern Cananda.
Artificial Islands built off the Dubai Coast.
Lake Chad in west Africa shrinks as green wetlands replace open water.
Changing water levels in a closed basin lake, in Iran.
Urban growth in Las Vegas, one of the fastest growing metro areas in the US.
The 1980 eruption of St. Helens detroyed 150 square miles of forest.
Palm oil plantations in the middle of undisturbed rainforest.
Expanding phosphate mines in Florida and green reclaimed land.
An expanding capitol city in the desert of Saudi Arabia.
Evaporation ponds in a salt flat in the Ch
Suburban expansion, pushing beyond the outer loop highways of San Antonio.
Agricultural expansion using center-pivot irrigation systems in the Arabian desert.
Lakes formed in the desert from water diverted from the nile river, are then dimished over time.
Fire scars from the 1988 wildfires in Yellowstone National Park.
The shrinking of the Aral Sea, once the 4th largest lake in the world.
Africa's tallest dam, and a large reservoir behind it.