False Color Infrared
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False color infrared image captures the huge variety in landscapes surrounding the Grand Canyon in Arizona.
The dramatic landscape of South Florida and Everglades National Park, with Miami located along the eastern boundary.
Death Valley, located in the Mojave Desert in southeastern California, is the lowest point in North America at 282' below sea level. Furnace Creek is among the hottest places on earth with a record reported high of 134 degrees F in 1913.
The Colorado River Delta terminates into the Sea of Cortez in this false color infrared image. Since water diverssions began on the Colorado to support irrigation, much of the wetlands this region once supported have vanished.
This landscape of dramatic contrast notably features linear, star and dome dunes as well as several arid granite massifs, some as high as 650 metres. The dunes emerge like islands from the sea of sand and harbour distinct and highly diverse plant and wildlife communities, including endemic freshwater fish species and the endemic Sonoran Pronghorn, which is only to be found in northwestern Sonora and in southwestern Arizona (USA).
The Salton Sea is the largest lake in California. It was created as an accident in the early 1900s as engineers were diverting water from the Colorado River. At the lake's deepest point it is 5 feet higher in elevation than Death Valley (230' below sea level).
A UNESCO World Heritage site, the Altai Mountains contains the most complete sequence of altitudinal vegetation zones in central Siberia. The region is home to the globally endangered snow leopard.
This delta in north-west Botswana comprises permanent marshlands and seasonally flooded plains. It is one of the very few major interior delta systems that do not flow into a sea or ocean, with a wetland system that is almost intact. The Okavango Delta is home to some of the world’s most endangered species of large mammal, such as the cheetah, white rhinoceros, black rhinoceros, African wild dog and lion.
The state of Hawaii, captured in infrared, is merged with bathymetric survey data showing depth to the ocean floor.
Intensive land use along the Florida and Georgia border with center pivot irrigation, pine plantations, urbanization, all situated around the Silver Lake Wildlife Management Area
The cities of Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates located on the shore of the Persian Gulf are depicted here in false color infrared. Several recent new "coastal developments" in Dubai can be seen, including the "World Map".
Wetlands buffer the Louisiana coast against storm surge from tropical storms but have been disappearing over previous decades, in part due to subsidence at the coastal margin
This image captures several natural wonders found in California, including Mono Lake, the White Mountains, Mammoth, Yosemite Valley, and the Long Valley Caldera, a supervolcano which last errupted 760,000 years ago.