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Sendai Bay - February 2012

Eleven months after the earthquake and tsunami, agricultural fields near Sendai Bay appeared to have returned to normal, at least on the surface. The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image on February 11, 2012. In this false-color image, water is blue, vegetation is red, and fallow fields are pink-beige.

Compared to the image acquired by the same sensor on March 19, 2011, this scene shows a dried-out landscape. Not only has the saltwater drained off the fields, but the borders between fields are apparent again. Overall, the vegetation appears less robust than in March 2011, though that could be a result of seasonal differences (late winter instead of early spring).


NASA image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using data from the NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team. Caption by Michon Scott.

Published March 8, 2012
Data acquired February 11, 2012

Source:
Terra > ASTER
Collection:
Visible Earth