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A Rough Year for Rice in California

The ongoing drought has cut rice acreage in the Sacramento Valley in half.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and data from the Level-1 and Atmosphere Archive & Distribution System (LAADS) and Land Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE). Story by Adam Voiland.

Published October 3, 2022
Data acquired September 16, 2022

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Terra > MODIS
Collections:
Applied Sciences
Food and Agriculture