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Images & Animations Murray River 2019 and after La Nina

DEA Surface Reflectance - USGS Landsat 8 - 2019-02-22 - Gunbower-Koondrook-Perricoota, Victoria and New South Wales

Published:11 May 2023

DEA Surface Reflectance shows agricultural fields along the Murray River using Landsat 8 data. This was captured in early 2019, during the most intense drought, with much of the continent at its hottest and driest since 1911.

DEA Surface Reflectance shows agricultural fields along the Murray River using Landsat 8 data. This was captured in early 2019, during the most intense drought, with much of the continent at its hottest and driest since 1911.

 

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

doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs6097952

The same area captured two years later, following a shift in the El Nino-Southern Oscillation.

The same area captured two years later, following a shift in the El Nino-Southern Oscillation.

 

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

doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs6097952

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