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Tracking California drought from space

Posted by jfleck on 2 February 2015, 9:49 pm

Using NASA data, some scientists built these maps of California farm land fallowed during the drought. Green is planted, brown is fallowed:

Courtesy NASA Earth Observatory

Courtesy NASA Earth Observatory

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