Turbidity along the coast of Florida

The shallow coastal waters to the west of Florida are very turbid (sediment-filled) in this true-color Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image from November 18, 2002, perhaps from a storm that passed through in previous days. At the southern tip of Florida, the Everglades are deep green and brown, and contrast sharply with the cement-colored strip along the eastern shore which is the West Palm Beach-Fort Lauderdale-Miami urban corridor. To the north of the everglades is Lake Okeechobee.

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Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

Published November 19, 2002
Data acquired November 18 - 18, 2002

Source:

Terra > MODIS

Collection:

Visible Earth