Images & Animations A bauxite mine grows on Cape York

DEA Land Cover shows how the land cover changes on an annual basis from 1988 to 2020. This animation of three decades of the land cover measures the changes in the vegetation types in Weipa, as the bauxite mine expands at the township on Western Cape York Peninsula.

Creative Commons - Attribution International 4.0, © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2021. Input data from Landsat 5, 7 and 8, courtesy of the US Geological Survey.

doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/data4040143