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Locusts Plague Northern and Western Africa - selected image

Locusts Plague Northern and Western Africa - selected child image

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Locusts Plague Northern and Western Africa

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Locusts Plague Northern and Western Africa.

NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data provided by Mark Carrol as part of the Global Agricultural Monitoring Project between NASA, USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), and the University of Maryland. More data and information about this joint project is available at Satellite Information for Agricultural Monitoring .

Published October 13, 2004
Data acquired September 4, 2003