How Cities and Suburbs Affect Chesapeake Bay - related image preview

720 x 480
JPEG

How Cities and Suburbs Affect Chesapeake Bay - related image preview

2000 x 2000
3 MB - JPEG

How Cities and Suburbs Affect Chesapeake Bay - related geotiff image preview placeholder

2000 x 2000
9 MB - GeoTIFF

How Cities and Suburbs Affect Chesapeake Bay - related image preview

720 x 545
PNG

How Cities and Suburbs Affect Chesapeake Bay - related image preview

1786 x 1190
3 MB - PNG

How Cities and Suburbs Affect Chesapeake Bay - related image preview

720 x 480
JPEG

How Cities and Suburbs Affect Chesapeake Bay - related image preview

720 x 480
JPEG

How Cities and Suburbs Affect Chesapeake Bay - related image preview

4248 x 2584
1 MB - JPEG

How Cities and Suburbs Affect Chesapeake Bay

While the amount of pollution that wastewater treatment plants contribute to the Bay is declining, the spread of asphalt, pavement, and other impervious surfaces in suburbs and cities is increasing stormwater pollution.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens and Jesse Allen, based on Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and a paper by Song et al. (2015). Sparrows Point photograph courtesy of The Center for Land Use Interpretation. Bioretention photograph courtesy of Community & Environmental Defense Services. Caption by Adam Voiland.

Published September 20, 2016
Data acquired 1984 - 2016

Sources:
Landsat 5 > TM
Landsat 7 > ETM+
Landsat 8 > OLI
Photograph